A little electrical boost may help many heart failur...( mphasize that this is merely a pilot st...)

A little electrical boost may help many heart failure patients

mphasize that this is merely a pilot study, and that patients knew they had gotten the device. Therefore, the efficacy findings could be influenced by a placebo effect," he said.

The team is now preparing a much larger trial of the device. Burkhoff and his colleagues have proposed that a large-scale patient trial be conducted primarily in the United States.

Some 550,000 new cases of heart failure are diagnosed each year and 51,500 people die from it annually, according to the American Heart Association.

"It is a very complex and long path to develop treatments for heart failure," said Burkhoff.

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Contact: Carole Bullock
carole.bullock@heart.org
214-706-1279
American Heart Association
11-Nov-2003

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