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Editor's Note: Thalia Porteny is an assistant professor of health policy and management at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.

But as researchers developed easier ways to spot cardiac amyloidosis, more patients were diagnosed, said Dr. Mathew Maurer, a cardiologist at Columbia University Irving Medical Center.

“It is repeatedly the family caregiver who shoulders the immense pressures generated by health care shortages and rising dementia cases,” says John McHugh of the Mailman School of Public Health.