Heart failure – most frequent reason for hospitalisation in 2006
WIESBADEN– As reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), a total of 17 million patients were treated on a full-time in-patient basis in hospitals in 2006.Heart failure (317,000 cases) was the main reason for hospitalisation. It was followed by the heart disease Angina pectoris (301,000) and by mental and behavioural disorders due to use of alcohol (299,000).
All in all, 53.4% of the total of about 17 million patients were female, while 46.6% were male. The average age of the patients was 52 years. In 2006, the number of cases of treatment amounted to 19,651 per 100,000 inhabitants, which was an increase of 0.1% on a year earlier (19,629).
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