Socioeconomic factors in the prognosis of heart failure in a Brazilian cohort
| Autor: | Antonio Carlos Pereira Barreto, Castálide Benetom de Campos Lopes, Fernando Araújo, Alice Tatsuko Yamada, Alfredo José Mansur |
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| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Heart disease Risk Factors Internal medicine Epidemiology Prevalence Humans Medicine Prospective Studies Prospective cohort study Survival rate Aged Aged 80 and over Heart Failure business.industry Odds ratio Middle Aged Prognosis medicine.disease Surgery Survival Rate Socioeconomic Factors Heart failure Cohort Female Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine business Brazil Follow-Up Studies Cohort study |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Cardiology. 113:181-187 |
| ISSN: | 0167-5273 |
| Popis: | A large body of evidence supports the concept that socioeconomic factors may influence the prognosis of cardiovascular diseases. We studied the influence of socioeconomic factors in the prognosis of heart failure in 494 patients consecutively admitted to the hospital due to worsening of symptoms of heart failure in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The ages ranged between 15 and 90 (mean 57.5, standard deviation 14.2) years; 345 (69.8%) were men and 149 (30.2%) were women. Patients were followed-up at least for two years after hospital discharge. Two hundred and forty-one patients died due to cardiac disease during the follow-up period. Hierarchical analysis was performed with demographic and socioeconomic variables analyzed in the first level and clinical variables in the second level. At the level of the demographic and socioeconomic characteristics, care under the Public Health System (odds ratio 3.46, 95% CI 1.91 to 6.27, p |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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