Heart Failure Hospitalizations and Risk Factors among the Multi-Ethnic Population from a Middle Income Country: The Suriname Heart Failure Studies
| Autor: | Keith C. Ferdinand, Wilco C W R Zijlmans, Shellice Sairras, Kwame van der Hilst, Arti Shankar, Se-Sergio M. Baldew, Maureen Y. Lichtveld |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Thorax medicine.medical_specialty Low and middle income countries Population Ethnic group Heart failure Disease Middle income country Article Risk Factors Internal medicine Diabetes mellitus Ethnicity medicine Humans Prospective Studies education Hospitalizations education.field_of_study Suriname business.industry General Medicine medicine.disease Hospitalization Cross-Sectional Studies Etiology Female business Chronic disease management model |
| Zdroj: | Journal of the National Medical Association |
| ISSN: | 0027-9684 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jnma.2020.08.010 |
| Popis: | Introduction Heart failure (HF) is an emerging epidemic with poor disease outcomes and differences in its prevalence, etiology and management between and within world regions. Hypertension (HT) and ischemic heart disease (IHD) are the leading causes of HF. In Suriname, South-America, data on HF burden are lacking. The aim of this Suriname Heart Failure I (SUHF–I) study, is to assess baseline characteristics of HF admitted patients in order to set up the prospective interventional SUHF-II study to longitudinally determine the effectiveness of a comprehensive HF management program in HF patients. Methods A cross-sectional analysis was conducted of Thorax Center Paramaribo (TCP) discharge data from January 2013-December 2015. The analysis included all admissions with primary or secondary discharge of HF ICD-10 codes I50-I50.9 and I11.0 and the following variables: patient demographics (age, sex, and ethnicity), # of readmissions, risk factors (RF) for HF: HT, diabetes mellitus (DM), smoking, and left ventricle (LV) function. T-tests were used to analyze continuous variables and Chi-square test for categorical variables. Differences were considered statistically significant when a p-value |
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