When is a Heart Failure Treatment Considered Beneficial?
A remedy for heart failure can be viewed as beneficial if strict testing shows that it can do at least one of the following: • Help people with heart failure live longer. • Increase the amount of exercise they can do. • Decrease the number and severity of symptoms of heart failure. • Decrease hospitalizations for heart failure. • Slow, stop, or reverse the progression of heart failure. • Improve quality of life.