EPIDEMIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF CHRONIC HEART FAILURE PATIENTS IN ROSTOV REGION
Author(s) -
Н. П. Дорофеева,
С А Плескачев,
С. В. Шлык,
E V Tchigaeva,
E A TherAnanyanz,
О Г Машталова,
I E Koulikova,
А С Плескачев
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of clinical practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2618-8627
pISSN - 2220-3095
DOI - 10.17816/clinpract2174-78
Subject(s) - medicine , heart failure , ischaemic heart disease , epidemiology , retrospective cohort study , prospective cohort study , mortality rate , intensive care medicine , cardiology , emergency medicine
Objective. Assesment of chronic heart failure (CHF) prevalence and differential treatment in Rostov Region based on retrospective and prospective evaluation. Materials and methods. Retrospective analysis of 3059 casehistories of CHF patients hospitalized in cardiology departments of Rostov Region in 2008. 745 patients prospective followup. Results. Inpatients demonstrate a 52% CHF prevalence with a mortality rate of 3%. Major CHF development factors (in 82% cases) were determined to be ischaemic heart disease and arterial hypertension. Optimal medical treatment with basic pharmacological groups of drugs was conducted in 82% of inpatients the number decreasing to 53% during a year after discharge.
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