Dr. Sanjiv Narayan is the founder of Topera, a medical technology company that was acquired by Abbott Laboratories in 2014. Dr. Sanjiv Narayan has served in several roles at Stanford University, including director of the Atrial Fibrillation Program. He has also continued to maintain membership in the American Heart Association.
Through its 2017 Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics Update, the American Heart Association recently released data that shows more Americans are living with heart failure compared to previous years. Over a three-year period from 2011 to 2014, the number of those living with heart failure increased by approximately 800,000 from 5.7 million to 6.5 million, with those figures expected to increase by 46 percent over the next 15 years.
One reason experts believe more people are living with heart failure has to do with advancements in medical science. Individuals who survive heart attacks are at an increased risk of heart failure later in life, and increasingly effective treatments allow more people to survive these cardiac events than in previous years. People living to older ages is also a contributing factor.
