1. Differences in Prognostic Factors among Patients Hospitalized for Heart Failure According to the Age Category: From the KUNIUMI Registry Acute Cohort
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Tomoyo, Hamana, Wataru, Fujimoto, Akihide, Konishi, Makoto, Takemoto, Koji, Kuroda, Soichiro, Yamashita, Junichi, Imanishi, Masamichi, Iwasaki, Takashi, Todoroki, Masanori, Okuda, Takatoshi, Hayashi, Hiromasa, Otake, Hidekazu, Tanaka, Masakazu, Shinohara, Ryuji, Toh, and Ken-Ichi, Hirata
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Aged, 80 and over ,Frailty ,heart failure ,Stroke Volume ,General Medicine ,Prognosis ,mortality ,Atrial Fibrillation ,Internal Medicine ,Humans ,Registries ,Japanese registry ,prognostic factor ,Aged - Abstract
Objective Previous studies have described several prognostic factors for heart failure (HF); however, these results were derived from registries consisting of conventional age groups, which might not represent the increasingly aging society. The present study explored the prognostic factors for all-cause death in hospitalized patients with HF across different age categories using an acute HF registry that included relatively old patients. Methods From a total of 1,971 consecutive patients with HF, 1,136 patients were enrolled. We divided the patients into 4 groups (≤65, 66-75, 76-85, and >85 years old) to evaluate all-cause death and prognostic factors of all-cause death. Results During the mean follow-up period of 1,038 days, 445 patients (39.2%) had all-cause death. A Kaplan-Meier analysis demonstrated significantly higher incidence of all-cause death in the elderly groups than in the younger groups (log-rank p85 years old group. Conclusions Atrial fibrillation was a notable predictor of HF in young patients, whereas frailty and low-grade albuminemia were essential predictive factors of HF in elderly patients. With the increasing number of elderly patients with HF, comprehensive multidisciplinary treatment will be necessary.
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- 2022