A global perspective of racial differences and outcomes in patients presenting with acute heart failure

Jasper Tromp; Wouter Ouwerkerk; John G F Cleland; Chanchal Chandramouli; Christiane E Angermann; Ulf Dahlstrom; Georg Ertl; Mahmoud Hassanein; Sergio V Perrone; Mathieu Ghadanfar; Anja Schweizer; Achim Obergfell; Kenneth Dickstein; Sean P Collins; Gerasimos Filippatos; Carolyn Sp Lam

doi:10.1016/j.ahj.2021.09.001

A global perspective of racial differences and outcomes in patients presenting with acute heart failure

Am Heart J. 2022 Jan:243:11-14. doi: 10.1016/j.ahj.2021.09.001. Epub 2021 Sep 10.

Authors

Jasper Tromp¹, Wouter Ouwerkerk², John G F Cleland³, Chanchal Chandramouli⁴, Christiane E Angermann⁵, Ulf Dahlstrom⁶, Georg Ertl⁵, Mahmoud Hassanein⁷, Sergio V Perrone⁸, Mathieu Ghadanfar⁹, Anja Schweizer¹⁰, Achim Obergfell¹⁰, Kenneth Dickstein¹¹, Sean P Collins¹², Gerasimos Filippatos¹³, Carolyn Sp Lam¹⁴

Affiliations

¹ Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore and National University Health System, Singapore, National Heart Centre Singapore & Duke-National University of Singapore, Singapore University Medical Centre Groningen, The Netherlands. Electronic address: [email protected].
² National Heart Centre Singapore, Singapore; Dept of Dermatology, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Infection & Immunity Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
³ Robertson Centre for Biostatistics and Clinical Trials, Institute of Health & Well-Being, University of Glasgow and National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College, London.
⁴ National Heart Centre Singapore, Singapore.
⁵ Department of Medicine, University and University Hospital Würzburg, Comprehensive Heart Failure Center, Würzburg, Germany.
⁶ Department of Cardiology and Department of Health, Medicine and Caring Sciences, Linkoping University, Linkoping, Sweden.
⁷ Faculty of Medicine, Cardiology Department Alexandria, Alexandria University, Egypt.
⁸ El Cruce Hospital by Florencio Varela, Lezica Cardiovascular Institute, Sanctuary of the Trinidad Miter, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
⁹ M-Ghadanfar Consulting (Life Sciences), Basel, Switzerland.
¹⁰ Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland.
¹¹ University of Bergen, Stavanger University Hospital, Norway.
¹² Department of Emergency Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN.
¹³ School of Medicine, Department of Cardiology, University of Cyprus, School of Medicine & National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Attikon University Hospital, Athens, Greece.
¹⁴ National Heart Centre Singapore & Duke-National University of Singapore. Electronic address: [email protected].

PMID: 34516969
DOI: 10.1016/j.ahj.2021.09.001

Abstract

Important racial differences in characteristics, treatment, and outcomes of patients with acute heart failure (AHF) have been described. The objective of this analysis of the International Registry to assess medical Practice with longitudinal observation for Treatment of Heart Failure (REPORT-HF) registry was to investigate racial differences in patients with AHF according to country income level.

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Acute Disease
Heart Failure* / therapy
Hospitalization*
Humans
Race Factors
Registries