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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Jane Kirby

Thousands could be saved by making this small change to heart failure treatment

Nice have issued draft guidelines for people with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF). - (Getty Images)

New guidelines for treating heart failure could save 3,000 lives and prevent 5,500 hospital admissions every year, according to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice).

The draft guidelines recommend that medicines be administered up to a year earlier for a specific type of heart failure known as heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF).

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