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BACKGROUND:It is difficult to define the optimal management of elderly heart failure (HF) patients with complex comorbidities. Thus, comprehensive characterisation of HF patients constitutes a crucial pre-condition for the successful management of this fragile population. AIM:To analyse the 'real life' HF patients, including the evaluation of their health conditions, management and their use of public health resources. METHODS AND RESULTS:We examined 822 consecutive patients diagnosed with HF in NYHA classes II-IV in primary care practices. The mean age was 68.5 years, and 56% were male. Only 23% of the patients who were of pre-retirement age remained professionally active. Ischaemic or hypertension aetiology was found in 90% of participants. Nearly all patients had multiple comorbidities. Most patients received converting enzyme inhibitors (88%) and beta-blockers (77%), 60% of them both, although dosing was frequently inadequate. During the six months preceding the study, 31% had cardiovascular hospitalisation and 66% required unscheduled surgery visits. CONCLUSIONS:The real life HF population differs from trial populations. Most of the real life patients who had not yet reached retirement age were professionally inactive, mainly due to a disability caused by cardiovascular conditions. Moreover, extremely few participants were free from any comorbidity. Compared to 20th century Polish data, there has been an improvement in the overall quality of HF-recommended pharmacotherapy. It must be stressed, however, that the percentage of those on optimal dosage remains unsatisfactory.
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Kardiol Poljournal_title
Kardiologia polskaauthors
Rywik TM,Kołodziej P,Targoński R,Fedyk-Łukasik M,Nowicka A,Zinka E,Zbyszyński B,Achremczyk P,Górski J,Muder A,Sadowski J,Leszek P,Kurjata P,Broda G,Korewicki Jsubject
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2011-01-01 00:00:00pages
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