Heart failure in Southern Sweden (HISS): a cross-sectional analysis of primary care patients' characteristics and physicians' adherence to guideline-directed medical therapy.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

We aimed to describe clinical and diagnostic characteristics of primary care patients with heart failure and physicians' adherence to guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT) for treating chronic heart failure.

Design

Cross-sectional study based on baseline data from the prospective primary care-based study Heart failure in Southern Sweden (HISS).

Setting

Patients with heart failure were included from 20 primary healthcare centres in the southernmost region of Sweden (Skåne).

Participants

Between 2020 and 2023, patients were included in HISS, resulting in a total of 587 participants. Of these, 558 patients (95% of the HISS participants) had available data on left ventricular ejection fraction and were included in this study. Adult patients aged 18 y

SUBMITTER: Svensson Soderberg K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12587902 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature