Decomposition of Heart Failure Prevalence and Mortality Among Older Adults in the United States: Medicare-Based Partitioning Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Heart failure (HF) is a challenging clinical and public health problem characterized by high prevalence and mortality among US older adults, along with a recent decline in HF prevalence and increase in mortality. The changes of prevalence can be decomposed into pre-existing disease prevalence, disease incidence, and respective survival, while the changes of mortality can be decomposed into mortality in the general population independent from HF, pre-existing HF prevalence, incidence, and respective survival. These epidemiological components may contribute differently to the changes in prevalence and mortality.

Objective

We aimed to investigate and compare the relative contributions of epidemiologic determinants in HF prevalence and mortality trends.

Methods

SUBMITTER: Yu B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11611790 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature