Heart failure in COVID-19 patients: prevalence, incidence and prognostic implications.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

Data on the impact of COVID-19 in chronic heart failure (CHF) patients and its potential to trigger acute heart failure (AHF) are lacking. The aim of this work was to study characteristics, cardiovascular outcomes and mortality in patients with confirmed COVID-19 infection and a prior diagnosis of heart failure (HF). Further aims included the identification of predictors and prognostic implications for AHF decompensation during hospital admission and the determination of a potential correlation between the withdrawal of HF guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT) and worse outcomes during hospitalization.

Methods and results

Data for a total of 3080 consecutive patients with confirmed COVID-19 infection and follow-up of at least 30 days were analysed. Patients with a p

SUBMITTER: Rey JR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7461427 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature