Mortality trends in an ambulatory multidisciplinary heart failure unit from 2001 to 2018.

ABSTRACT: To assess mortality trends at 1 and 3 years from 2001 to 2018 in a real-life cohort of HF outpatients from different etiologies with depressed and preserved LVEF. A total of 2368 consecutive patients with HF (mean age 66.4?±?12.9 years, 71% men, 15.4% with preserved LVEF) admitted to a HF clinic from August 2001 to September 2018 were included in the study. Patients were divided into five quintiles (Q) according to the period of admission. Trends for all-cause and cardiovascular mortality from Q1 to Q5 were assessed by linear regression. Patients with LVEF?

SUBMITTER: Spitaleri G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7804393 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature