An 8-year follow-up study of acute admissions with heart failure in a multiethnic population
| Autor: | John Zarifis, Gregory Y.H. Lip, Gurbir Bhatia, Russell C. Davis, Michael D. Sosin |
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| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Adrenergic beta-Antagonists Population Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors Internal medicine medicine Humans Life Tables Intensive care medicine education Survival analysis Aged Proportional Hazards Models Heart Failure Univariate analysis education.field_of_study business.industry Atrial fibrillation medicine.disease Survival Analysis United Kingdom Log-rank test Heart failure Cohort Etiology Female Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine business Follow-Up Studies |
| Zdroj: | European Journal of Heart Failure. 6:669-672 |
| ISSN: | 1388-9842 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.ejheart.2003.11.016 |
| Popis: | In 1994, we reported a cross-sectional survey of acute heart failure admissions to a city centre hospital serving a multiethnic population and found ethnic differences in aetiological factors and short-term (in-patient) mortality. We analysed long-term mortality data for this original survey cohort after 8 years’ follow-up. At 8 years’ follow-up, the total mortality was 90.5% amongst Europeans and 87.0% amongst non-Europeans (log rank test, P=0.0705). The non-European patients had significantly better survival at all time points until 6 years, after which the survival curves start to converge. In univariate analysis, age |
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