Heart failure in young adults: 20-year trends in hospitalization, aetiology, and case fatality in Sweden.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

To describe trends in incidence and case fatality among younger (18-54 years) and older (55-84 years) Swedish patients with heart failure (HF).

Methods and results

Through linking the Swedish national hospital discharge and the cause-specific death registries, we identified patients aged 18-84 years that were discharged 1987-2006 with a diagnosis of HF. Age-specific mean incidence rates per 100 000 person-years were calculated in four 5-year periods. Kaplan-Meier survival curves were plotted up to 3 years. From 1987 to 2006, there were 443 995 HF hospitalizations among adults 18-84 years. Of these, 4660 (1.0%) and 13 507 (3.0%) occurred in people aged 18-44 and 45-54 years (31.6% women), respectively. From the first to the last 5-year period, HF incidence increased by 5

SUBMITTER: Barasa A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3877433 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature