Wataru Fujimoto, Ryuji Toh, Misa Takegami, Junichi Imanishi, Tomoyo Hamana, Susumu Odajima, Makoto Takemoto, Koji Kuroda, Yutaka Hatani, Soichiro Yamashita, Masamichi Iwasaki, Takumi Inoue, Hiroshi Okamoto, Takafumi Todoroki, Masanori Okuda, Takatoshi Hayashi, Akihide Konishi, Hidekazu Tanaka, Masakazu Shinohara, Manabu Nagao, Shunsuke Murata, Soshiro Ogata, Kunihiro Nishimura, Ken-Ichi Hirata
AIMS: With the rapidly increasing ageing population, heart failure is an urgent challenge, particularly in developed countries. The study aimed to investigate the main aetiologies of chronic heart failure in a super-aged society. METHODS AND RESULTS: The KUNIUMI registry chronic cohort is a community-based, prospective, observational study of chronic heart failure in Awaji Island, Japan. Inhabitants of this island aged ≥65 years accounted for 36.3% of the population...
September 23, 2022: ESC Heart Failure