DECEMBER - 20228Michael Dale, Senior Vice President, Abbott [NYSE: ABT]ByIn the past century, the global average life expectancy has more than doubled and is expected to increase even further in the coming decades, making it imperative that health solutions keep up with the needs that accompany our longer lives. Meeting the needs of an aging population requires innovation and improvements in effectiveness and efficiency for today's solutions to ensure we can help the greatest number of people.For more than 130 years, Abbott has been helping people live longer, healthier lives by developing solutions that solve some of the world's biggest health issues. In particular, Abbott's cardiovascular businesses have been focused on significantly expanding its portfolio to address the critical unmet needs of people with complex heart issues. In some cases, technologies available today ­ such as new solutions WHY INNOVATION TO TREAT AGING HEARTS IS IMPERATIVEMichael DaleIn My OpinionThe stories of patients motivate employees at Abbott to drive continued innovation for heart and other health conditions, taking valuable key learnings and applying them to existing and new technology
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