Chronic heart failure: evolution of etiology, prevalence and mortality over the past 20 years
S. А. Boytsov
Abstract
The article is devoted to the analysis of changes in the role of causal and comorbid risk factors for two main types of heart failure with reduced and preserved ejection fraction over the previous 20 years. Within the same time interval, the dynamics of the prevalence and mortality for these clinical variants. Special attention is paid to a possible solution to the issue of the complexity of recording cases of diagnosis and treatment of chronic heart failure in outpatient and hospital practice.
Topics & Concepts
MedicineEtiologyHeart failureIntensive care medicineInternal medicineDemographyCardiologySociologyHeart Failure Treatment and ManagementCardiovascular Function and Risk FactorsCardiac pacing and defibrillation studies