Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM

Amount

$915,476.00

Award Date

8/31/2009

Administering Agency

Health and Human Services, Department of / National Institutes of Health

CDFA Number

93.701

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support

Description

There are ~5 million heart failure patients in the United States. Over half are estimated to have diastolic heart failure or heart failure with normal or near normal left ventricular ejection fraction. Most diastolic heart failure patients are older adult