Evidence map›Paper›PMID 21178017›Full record

ArticleCirculation. Heart failure2011

Race, sex, and age differences in heart failure-related hospitalizations in a southern state: implications for prevention.

Baqar A Husaini, George A Mensah, Douglas Sawyer, Van A Cain, Zahid Samad, Pamela C Hull, Robert S Levine, Uchechukwu K A Sampson

Open access · greenAbstract readComparative Study
In one paragraph

Article in Circulation. Heart failure, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
21citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 19% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 39 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Geographical and Ethnic Heterogeneity in Genetic Dilated Cardiomyopathies.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026
    Pooled it
  2. Trial
  3. Article
  4. Observational
  5. Article
  6. Article
  7. Article
  8. Article
  9. Article
  10. Article
  11. Article
  12. Article
  13. Observational
  14. Observational
  15. Article
  16. Article
  17. Management of chronic heart failure in the older population.Journal of geriatric cardiology : JGC · 2014
    Review
  18. Article
  19. National trends in heart failure hospital stay rates, 2001 to 2009.Journal of the American College of Cardiology · 2013
    Article
  20. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Baqar A HusainiCenter for Health Research, Tennessee State University, Nashville, TN 37209, USA. bhusaini@tnstate.edu
George A Mensah
Douglas Sawyer
Van A Cain
Zahid Samad
Pamela C Hull
Robert S Levine
Uchechukwu K A Sampson
Meharry Medical College · USTennessee State University · USVanderbilt University Medical Center · US

Funding

VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY CTSA FOR PEDIATRIC RESEARCHUL1RR024975 · NCRR · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI BERNARD, GORDON RAPHAEL · 2007 to 2011
$45.7M
Training/Education CoreP20MD000516 · NIMHD · MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE · PI ZOOROB, ROGER J · 2003 to 2013
$14.2M
Training In Cardiovascular ResearchT32HL007411 · NHLBI · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI BECKMAN, JOSHUA A · 1985 to 2020
$7.2M
NCRR NIH HHS UL1 RR024975NCRR NIH HHS UL1RR024975NHLBI NIH HHS T32 HL007411NIMHD NIH HHS P20 MD000516NIMHD NIH HHS P20-MD000516PHS HHS U58CCU422782
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundBecause heart failure (HF) is the final common pathway for most heart diseases, we examined its 10-year prevalence trend by race, sex, and age in Tennessee. METHODS AND

resultsHF hospitalization data from the Tennessee Hospital Discharge Data System were analyzed by race, sex, and age. Rates were directly age-adjusted using the Year 2000 standard population. Adult (age 20+ years) inpatient hospitalization for primary diagnosis of HF (HFPD) increased from 4.2% in 1997 to 4.5% in 2006. Age-adjusted hospitalization for HF (per 10 000 population) rose by 11.3% (from 29.3 in 1997 to 32.6 in 2006). Parallel changes in secondary HF admissions were also noted. Age-adjusted rates were higher among blacks than whites and higher among men than women. The ratios of black to white by sex admitted with HFPD in 2006 were highest (9:1) among the youngest age categories (20 to 34 and 35 to 44 years). Furthermore, for each age category of black men below 65 years, there were higher HF admission rates than for white men in the immediate older age category. In 2006, the adjusted rate ratios for HFPD in black to white men ages 20 to 34 and 35 to 44 years were odds ratio, 4.75; 95% confidence interval, 3.29 to 6.86 and odds ratio, 5.10; 95% confidence interval, 4.15 to 6.25, respectively. Hypertension was the independent predictor of HF admissions in black men ages 20 to 34 years.

conclusionsThe higher occurrence of HF among young adults in general, particularly among young black men, highlights the need for prevention by identifying modifiable biological and social determinants to reduce cardiovascular health disparities in this vulnerable group.

Indexed as

AdultAgedAged, 80 and overAge FactorsBlack or African AmericanChi-Square DistributionComorbidityFemaleHeart FailureHospitalizationHospitalsHumansHypertensionMaleMiddle AgedOdds Ratio

Identifiers

PMID21178017
PMCPMC3070602
OpenAlexW2142814893

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceTDM
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.