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CHICAGO — Hospital stays for heart failure fell a remarkable 30 percent in Medicare patients over a decade, the first such decline in the U.S.
But the study of 55 million patients, the largest ever on heart-failure trends, found only a slight decline in deaths within a year of leaving the hospital, and progress lagged for black men. The findings were reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Denver Post wire services
