Worsening Heart Failure and Medication Use in HFrEF: A Finnish Retrospective Registry Study and Patient Survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

Understanding worsening heart failure events (WHFEs) and clinical practices in the real world is essential in heart failure (HF) management. The primary objective of this single-center, retrospective, observational study, including a patient survey, was to characterize WHFEs and associated factors during the first year after the incident HF diagnosis in Finnish patients. Secondly, implementation and adherence to guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT) and mortality during the whole follow-up were assessed.

Methods

Incident HF patients (International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision: I50) with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF; <40%) were identified between 2013-2019 from the hospital data lake of Southwest Finland. Clinical characteristics

SUBMITTER: Vesikansa A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11791173 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature