Ten year age- and sex-specific temporal trends in incidence and prevalence of heart failure in Vastra Gotaland, Sweden.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

Heart failure (HF) is predominantly a disorder of the elderly. During the last decades, cardiovascular primary and secondary prevention and life expectancy have improved. Accordingly, trends in incidence and prevalence of HF are dynamic and may differ over time by age and gender. We aim to investigate the overall and age-specific and sex-specific trends, in incidence, prevalence, and the proportion with co-morbidities of HF over a 10 year period in Region Västra Götaland, Sweden.

Methods and results

The VEGA database is an administrative database of all patients managed in hospital and/or in primary care (private and public) living in Region Västra Götaland. All patients with a main or contributory diagnosis of HF (I50) aged 18 years or older between 2008 and 2017 were i

SUBMITTER: Wideqvist M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9773728 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature