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ArticleEuropean heart journal2014

Heart failure in young adults: 20-year trends in hospitalization, aetiology, and case fatality in Sweden.

Anders Barasa, Maria Schaufelberger, Georgios Lappas, Karl Swedberg, Mikael Dellborg, Annika Rosengren

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Article in European heart journal, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 104 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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Anders BarasaDepartment of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, Institute of Medicine/Cardiology, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Östra, Gothenburg SE-416 85, Sweden.
Maria Schaufelberger
Georgios Lappas
Karl Swedberg
Mikael Dellborg
Annika Rosengren

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aimsTo describe trends in incidence and case fatality among younger (18-54 years) and older (55-84 years) Swedish patients with heart failure (HF). METHODS AND

resultsThrough linking the Swedish national hospital discharge and the cause-specific death registries, we identified patients aged 18-84 years that were discharged 1987-2006 with a diagnosis of HF. Age-specific mean incidence rates per 100 000 person-years were calculated in four 5-year periods. Kaplan-Meier survival curves were plotted up to 3 years. From 1987 to 2006, there were 443 995 HF hospitalizations among adults 18-84 years. Of these, 4660 (1.0%) and 13 507 (3.0%) occurred in people aged 18-44 and 45-54 years (31.6% women), respectively. From the first to the last 5-year period, HF incidence increased by 50 and 43%, among people aged 18-34 and 35-44 years, respectively. Among people ≥45 years, incidence peaked in the mid-1990s and then decreased. Heart failure in the presence of cardiomyopathy increased more than two-fold among all age groups. Case fatality decreased for all age groups until 2001, after which no further significant decrease <55 years was observed.

conclusionIncreasing HF hospitalization in young adults in Sweden opposes the general trend seen in older patients, a finding which may reflect true epidemiological changes. Cardiomyopathy accounted for a substantial part of this increase. High case fatality and lack of further case fatality reduction after 2001 are causes for concern.

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AdolescentAdultAgedAged, 80 and overEpidemiologic MethodsFemaleHeart FailureHospitalizationHumansMaleMiddle AgedSwedenComorbidityHeart failureIncidencePrognosisYoung adults

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PMID23900697
PMCPMC3877433

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