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Shoaib, A, Farag, M, Nolan, J, Rigby, A, Patwala, A, Rashid, M, Kwok, CS, Perveen, R, Clark, AL, Komajda, M and Cleland, JGF (2019) Mode of presentation and mortality amongst patients hospitalized with heart failure? A report from the First Euro Heart Failure Survey. Clinical Research in Cardiology, 108 (5). 510 -519. ISSN 0300-5860
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Abstract
BACKGROUND: Heart failure is heterogeneous in aetiology, pathophysiology, and presentation. Despite this diversity, clinical trials of patients hospitalized for HF deal with this problem as a single entity, which may be one reason for repeated failures.
METHODS: The first EuroHeart Failure Survey screened consecutive deaths and discharges of patients with suspected heart failure during 2000-2001. Patients were sorted into seven mutually exclusive hierarchical presentations: (1) with cardiac arrest/ventricular arrhythmia; (2) with acute coronary syndrome; (3) with rapid atrial fibrillation; (4) with acute breathlessness; (5) with other symptoms/signs such as peripheral oedema; (6) with stable symptoms; and (7) others in whom the contribution of HF to admission was not clear.
RESULTS: The 10,701 patients enrolled were classified into the above seven presentations as follows: 260 (2%), 560 (5%), 799 (8%), 2479 (24%), 1040 (10%), 703 (7%), and 4691 (45%) for which index-admission mortality was 26%, 20%, 10%, 8%, 6%, 6%, and 4%, respectively. Compared to those in group 7, the hazard ratios for death during the index admission were 4.9 (p ≤ 0.001), 4.0 (p < 0.001), 2.2 (p < 0.001), 2.1 (p < 0.001), 1.4 (p < 0.04) and 1.4 (p = 0.04), respectively. These differences were no longer statistically significant by 12 weeks.
CONCLUSION: There is great diversity in the presentation of heart failure that is associated with very different short-term outcomes. Only a minority of hospitalizations associated with suspected heart failure are associated with acute breathlessness. This should be taken into account in the design of future clinical trials.
Item Type: | Article |
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Additional Information: | This is the final published version of the article (version of record). It first appeared online via Springer at https://doi.org/10.1007/s00392-018-1380-6 - please refer to any applicable terms of use of the publisher. |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | acute heart failure, mortality, presentation of heart failure |
Subjects: | R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC666 Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system |
Divisions: | Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Primary Care Health Sciences |
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Depositing User: | Symplectic |
Date Deposited: | 30 Aug 2019 08:57 |
Last Modified: | 30 Aug 2019 09:01 |
URI: | https://eprints.keele.ac.uk/id/eprint/6739 |