Marjan Walli-Attaei, Philip Joseph, Isabelle Johansson, Karen Sliwa, Eva Lonn, Aldo P Maggioni, Lisa Mielniczuk, Heather Ross, Kamilu Karaye, Camilla Hage, Nana Pogosova, Alex Grinvalds, Tara McCready, John McMurray, Salim Yusuf
BACKGROUND: There is a paucity of data on the clinical characteristics, management, and outcomes of women compared with men with heart failure in low-income and middle-income countries compared with high-income countries. We examined sex differences in risk factors, clinical characteristics, and treatments, and prospectively assessed the risk of heart failure hospitalisation and mortality in patients with heart failure in 40 high-income, middle-income, and low-income countries. METHODS: Participants aged 18 years or older with heart failure were enrolled from Dec 20, 2016, to Sept 9, 2020 in the prospective Global Congestive Heart Failure (G-CHF) study from 257 centres in 40 high-income, middle-income, and low-income countries...
January 10, 2024: Lancet Global Health