Characterisation of the octogenarians presenting to the diagnostic heart failure clinic: SHEAF registry
| Autor: | Pankaj Garg, Graham Fent, Andrew J Swift, Abdallah Al-Mohammad, Nigel Lewis, Dominic Rogers, Athanasios Charalampopoulos, Fiona Carr, Luke Thompson |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2024 |
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| Zdroj: | Open Heart, Vol 11, Iss 1 (2024) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 2053-3624 72114789 |
| DOI: | 10.1136/openhrt-2023-002584 |
| Popis: | Introduction Heart failure (HF) incidence is increasing in older adults with high hospitalisation and mortality rates. Treatment is complicated by side effects and comorbidities. We investigated the clinical characteristics of octogenarians presenting to the HF clinic.Methods Data were collected on octogenarians (80–89 years) referred to the HF clinic in two periods. The data included demographics, HF phenotype, comorbidities, symptoms and treatment. We investigate the temporal changes in clinical characteristics using χ2 test. We aimed to determine the clinical characteristics which were associated with optimisation of HF pharmacological intervention in the clinic, conducting multivariate regression analysis. Statistical significance is determined at p |
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