Figure 1 Impact of non‐cardiac comorbidity burden on the annual probability of a Medicare beneficiary with chronic heart failure (CHF) experiencing a hospitalisation due to any cause, a preventable hospitalisation or a preventable hospitalisation due to CHF. p<0.001 for linear trend for all outcomes. ACSC, ambulatory care sensitive conditions. Reprinted with permission from Braunstein JB, Anderson GF, Gerstenblith G, et al. Noncardiac comorbidity increases preventable hospitalizations and mortality among medicare beneficiaries with chronic heart failure. J Am Coll Cardiol 2003;42:1226–33, copyright 2003, with permission from The American College of Cardiology Foundation.⁴