1 in 4 patients die within a year of first HF hospitalisation: study
Better use of guideline-directed pharmacotherapy may cut rehospitalisations, say researchers.
Globally, one in four patients die within 12 months of their first heart failure-related hospitalisation, according to a study in JACC: Heart Failure.
Dr Biykem Bozkurt, from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, and colleagues described rehospitalisations, hospitalisation costs, use of guideline-directed medical therapy and mortality after hospitalisation for heart failure (HF).
Analysis included electronic health record or claims data for 263,525 adult patients in Japan, Sweden, the UK and the US with a first HF discharge between 2018 and 2022.
The researchers found that 28% of patients died within the first year post-HF hospitalisation (28.4 events per 100 patient-years).
