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Heart failure—the importance of ethnicity
Author(s) -
Sosin Michael D.,
Bhatia Gurbir S.,
Davis Russell C.,
Lip Gregory Y.H.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
european journal of heart failure
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.149
H-Index - 133
eISSN - 1879-0844
pISSN - 1388-9842
DOI - 10.1016/j.ejheart.2003.11.019
Subject(s) - medicine , ethnic group , heart failure , epidemiology , etiology , disease , ischaemic heart disease , diabetes mellitus , clinical trial , intensive care medicine , endocrinology , sociology , anthropology
Heart failure is a major public health problem in the Western world. Aetiological factors involved in its development include hypertension, diabetes, and ischaemic heart disease—all of which differ in prevalence, and possibly mechanism, between patients of differing ethnicity. Unfortunately, epidemiological and therapeutic trials have involved almost exclusively white populations, and evidence from these trials cannot necessarily be assumed to be generalisable to populations that include high proportions of patients from other ethnic origins. This review will discuss the mechanistic and therapeutic differences that exist in heart failure between those of European origin, and patients from the major ethnic minority groups of the UK.