Background: Despite an overall decline in age adjusted mortality from coronary heart
disease in developed countries, the number of patients with heart failure may be increasing …

Aims Heart failure (HF) continues to be a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in
industrialized countries. Data on the epidemiology of HF are largely lacking for Germany …

Background—Mortality in patients with heart failure (HF) remains high, but causes of death
are incompletely defined. As HF is a heterogeneous syndrome categorized according to the …

Objectives: This study investigated the relation between gender, etiology and survival in
patients with symptomatic heart failure. Background: Previous work provides conflicting …

Studies of the epidemiology of heart failure in the general population can inform
assessments of disease burden, research, public health policy and health system care …

BACKGROUND: While drug therapy and medical management improved markedly over the
last decade, the basic clinical characteristics of the heart failure patient population treated at …

Background Earlier work has demonstrated significant sex and age disparities in ischemic
heart disease. However, it remains unclear if an age or sex gap exists for heart failure (HF) …

Aims To examine trends in heart failure (HF) hospitalization rates and risk of readmissions
following an incident HF hospitalization. Methods and results During 2000–2014, we …

Objectives: This study sought to analyze recent trends over time in heart failure (HF) hospital
stay rates, length of stay (LOS), and in-hospital mortality by age groups with a large national …

BACKGROUND Relatively limited epidemiological data are available regarding the
prognosis of congestive heart failure (CHF) and temporal changes in survival after its onset …