Background: When triaging a patient who has heart failure, the physician must estimate the
patient's short-term risk of a major complication or death. Methods: Prospective cohort study …

Hypertension and coronary disease are major risk factors for the incidence and progression
of heart failure. These two risk factors frequently coexist, and have additive and synergistic …

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to create an automated surveillance tool for
reporting the incidence, prevalence and processes of care for patients with heart failure …

Objectives: This study sought to estimate lifetime risk for heart failure (HF) by sex and race.
Background: Prior estimates of lifetime risk for developing HF range from 20% to 33% in …

OBJECTIVES: To estimate the independent effect of hospitalization for congestive heart
failure (CHF) on subsequent mortality, readmission for CHF, hospitalization for any reason …

Aims To determine the prevalence of heart failure and symptomatic as well as asymptomatic
left ventricular systolic dysfunction in the general population. Methods and Results In 5540 …

Background—Heart failure is an important and growing public health problem in women.
Risk factors for incident hospitalized heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) …

Background: Heart failure is a leading cause of admission to hospital, but whether the
incidence of heart failure is increasing or decreasing is uncertain. We examined temporal …

The heart failure syndrome has first been described as an emerging epidemic about 25
years ago. Today, because of a growing and ageing population, the total number of heart …

Background Heart failure (HF) is a major public health problem that is associated with
substantial morbidity, impaired quality of life, and diminished survival. Despite the …