Prognosis of "pre-heart failure" clinical phenotypes.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Heart failure (HF) is a clinical syndrome where diagnostic certainty varies. The prognosis of individuals with some clinical features of HF, but without the fully overt syndrome, is unclear. Therefore, we sought to evaluate their natural history. METHODS AND RESULTS:Between 1990 and 2009, all suspected HF cases in the Framingham Heart Study were adjudicated into 3 groups reflecting varying diagnostic certainty: definite (meeting HF diagnostic criteria; n = 479), possible (meeting HF criteria but with an alternative explanation for findings; n = 135), and probable (insufficient criteria for definite HF; n = 121) HF. Age-and-sex-matched individuals (n = 1112) without HF or cardiovascular disease (CVD) were controls. Using multivariable-adjusted Cox regression, we compared the poss

SUBMITTER: Velagaleti RS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7147998 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature