SynthesisHeart (British Cardiac Society)2022
Prevalence, incidence and survival of heart failure: a systematic review.
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207 citing papers in PubMed, 17 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Efficacy of plant extracts in heart failure patients: a systematic review and network meta-analysis.BMC cardiovascular disorders · 2026Pooled it
- Face-to-Face and Internet-based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Patients with Heart Failure: an Umbrella Review of Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses.Current heart failure reports · 2026Pooled it
- Heart failure in Somalia: a scoping review of the epidemiology, etiology, clinical characteristics, management, outcomes, and evidence gaps.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2026Pooled it
- Efficacy and safety of Salvia miltiorrhiza and ligustrazine injection for heart failure: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2026Pooled it
- Sodium-glucose Cotransporter 2 Inhibitors Association with Risk of Heart Failure Hospitalization in Preserved and Mildly Reduced Ejection Fraction, Regardless of Diabetes Mellitus: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Current cardiology reviews · 2026Pooled it
- Impact of Catheter Ablation on LVEF in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation and Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction: A Systematic Review.Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia · 2026Pooled it
- Melatonin as a Novel Drug to Improve Cardiac Function and Quality of Life in Heart Failure Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Clinical cardiology · 2025Pooled it
- Triglyceride-glucose index and the prognosis of patients with heart failure: A meta-analysis.Biomolecules & biomedicine · 2025Pooled it
- Efficacy and safety of Dengzhan Shengmai capsule in the treatment of chronic heart failure: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2025Pooled it
- Assessment of patient-reported outcomes measures in heart failure: a systematic review.Heart failure reviews · 2024Pooled it
- A meta-analysis of the relationship between glycaemic variability and the mortality of patients with heart failure.ESC heart failure · 2024Pooled it
- A Meta-Analysis Approach to Gene Regulatory Network Inference Identifies Key Regulators of Cardiovascular Diseases.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Pooled it
- Using multi-omics to explore the genetic causal relationship between colorectal cancer and heart failure in gastrointestinal tumors.Frontiers in immunology · 2024Pooled it
- Mobile Application-Based Interventions for People with Heart Failure: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of nursing management · 2024Pooled it
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- Handgrip strength and the prognosis of patients with heart failure: A meta-analysis.Clinical cardiology · 2023Pooled it
- Effect of pueraria on left ventricular remodelling in HFrEF: A systematic review and meta-analysis.PloS one · 2023Pooled it
- Conduction System Pacing vs Biventricular Pacing in Chronic Heart Failure: Protocol for the Economic Analysis of the PhysioSync-HF Trial.Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia · 2025Trial
- Baseline characteristics of contemporary trial participants with heart failure and reduced ejection fraction: The VICTOR trial.European journal of heart failure · 2025Trial
- Application of food exchange portion method in home-based nutritional intervention for elderly patients with chronic heart failure.BMC cardiovascular disorders · 2023Trial
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Abstract
Studies of the epidemiology of heart failure in the general population can inform assessments of disease burden, research, public health policy and health system care delivery. We performed a systematic review of prevalence, incidence and survival for all available population-representative studies to inform the Global Burden of Disease 2020. We examined population-based studies published between 1990 and 2020 using structured review methods and database search strings. Studies were sought in which heart failure was defined by clinical diagnosis using structured criteria such as the Framingham or European Society of Cardiology criteria, with studies using alternate case definitions identified for comparison. Study results were extracted with descriptive characteristics including age range, location and case definition. Search strings identified 42 360 studies over a 30-year period, of which 790 were selected for full-text review and 125 met criteria for inclusion. 45 sources reported estimates of prevalence, 41 of incidence and 58 of mortality. Prevalence ranged from 0.2%, in a Hong Kong study of hospitalised heart failure patients in 1997, to 17.7%, in a US study of Medicare beneficiaries aged 65+ from 2002 to 2013. Collapsed estimates of incidence ranged from 0.1%, in the EPidémiologie de l'Insuffisance Cardiaque Avancée en Lorraine (EPICAL) study of acute heart failure in France among those aged 20-80 years in 1994, to 4.3%, in a US study of Medicare beneficiaries 65+ from 1994 to 2003. One-year heart failure case fatality ranged from 4% to 45% with an average of 33% overall and 24% for studies across all adult ages. Diagnostic criteria, case ascertainment strategy and demographic breakdown varied widely between studies. Prevalence, incidence and survival for heart failure varied widely across countries and studies, reflecting a range of study design. Heart failure remains a high prevalence disease among older adults with a high risk of death at 1 year.
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