Prognostic differences in long‐standing vs. recent‐onset dilated cardiomyopathy

Abstract Aims This study aimed to evaluate the outcome and prognostic factors in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) and long‐standing heart failure (LDCM) vs. recent‐onset heart failure (RODCM). Methods and results We compared 2019 patients with RODCM (duration <6 months, mean age 58.6 ye...

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Main Authors: Jonas Silverdal, Helen Sjöland, Aldina Pivodic, Ulf Dahlström, Michael Fu, Entela Bollano
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Published: Wiley 2022-04-01
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/ehf2.13816
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author Jonas Silverdal
Helen Sjöland
Aldina Pivodic
Ulf Dahlström
Michael Fu
Entela Bollano
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Aldina Pivodic
Ulf Dahlström
Michael Fu
Entela Bollano
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description Abstract Aims This study aimed to evaluate the outcome and prognostic factors in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) and long‐standing heart failure (LDCM) vs. recent‐onset heart failure (RODCM). Methods and results We compared 2019 patients with RODCM (duration <6 months, mean age 58.6 years, 70.7% male) with 1714 patients with LDCM (duration ≥6 months, median duration 3.5 years, mean age 62.5 years, 73.7% male) included in the Swedish Heart Failure Registry in the years 2003–16. Outcome measures were all‐cause, cardiovascular (CV), and non‐CV death and hospitalizations; heart transplantation; and a combined outcome of all‐cause death, heart transplantation, or heart failure (HF) hospitalization. Multivariable risk factor analyses were performed for the combined endpoint. All outcomes were more frequent in LDCM than in RODCM. The multivariable‐adjusted hazard ratios (HRs) (95% confidence interval) for LDCM vs. RODCM were 1.56 (1.34–1.82), P < 0.0001, for all‐cause death over a median follow‐up of 4.2 and 5.0 years, respectively; 1.67 (1.36–2.05), P < 0.0001, for CV death; 2.12 (1.14–3.91), P < 0.0001, for heart transplantation; 1.36 (1.21–1.53), P < 0.0001, for HF hospitalization; and 1.37 (1.24–1.52), P < 0.0001, for the combined outcome. A propensity score‐matched analysis yielded similar results. CV death was the main cause of mortality in LDCM and was higher in LDCM than in RODCM (P < 0.0001). Almost all co‐morbidities were significantly more frequent in LDCM than in RODCM, and the mean number of co‐morbidities increased significantly with increased duration of disease, also after age adjustment. Age, New York Heart Association functional class, ejection fraction, and left bundle branch block were prognostically adverse. The only co‐morbidity associated with the combined outcome regardless of HF duration was diabetes, in LDCM [HR 1.34 (1.15–1.56), P = 0.0002] and in RODCM [HR 1.29 (1.04–1.59), P = 0.018]. Male sex [HR 1.38 (1.18–1.63), P < 0.0001] and aspirin use [HR 1.33 (1.14–1.55), P = 0.0004] carried increased risk only in RODCM. Heart rate ≥75 b.p.m. [HR 1.20 (1.04–1.37), P = 0.01], atrial fibrillation [HR 1.24 (1.08–1.42), P = 0.0024], musculoskeletal or connective tissue disorder [HR 1.36 (1.13–1.63), P = 0.0014], and diuretic therapy [HR 1.40 (1.17–1.67), P = 0.0002] were prognostically adverse only in LDCM. Conclusions This nationwide study of patients with DCM demonstrates that longer disease duration is associated with worse prognosis. Co‐morbidities are more common in long‐standing HF than in recent‐onset HF and are associated with worse outcome. With the increased survival seen in the last decades, our results highlight the importance of careful attention to co‐morbid conditions in patients with DCM.
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spelling doaj.art-7a3a84e9aac24b49b1b6cef8e8bf68d92022-12-22T03:13:06ZengWileyESC Heart Failure2055-58222022-04-01921294130310.1002/ehf2.13816Prognostic differences in long‐standing vs. recent‐onset dilated cardiomyopathyJonas Silverdal0Helen Sjöland1Aldina Pivodic2Ulf Dahlström3Michael Fu4Entela Bollano5Department of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy University of Gothenburg Gothenburg SwedenDepartment of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy University of Gothenburg Gothenburg SwedenStatistiska Konsultgruppen Gothenburg SwedenDepartment of Cardiology and Department of Health, Medicine and Caring Sciences Linköping University Linköping SwedenDepartment of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy University of Gothenburg Gothenburg SwedenDepartment of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy University of Gothenburg Gothenburg SwedenAbstract Aims This study aimed to evaluate the outcome and prognostic factors in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) and long‐standing heart failure (LDCM) vs. recent‐onset heart failure (RODCM). Methods and results We compared 2019 patients with RODCM (duration <6 months, mean age 58.6 years, 70.7% male) with 1714 patients with LDCM (duration ≥6 months, median duration 3.5 years, mean age 62.5 years, 73.7% male) included in the Swedish Heart Failure Registry in the years 2003–16. Outcome measures were all‐cause, cardiovascular (CV), and non‐CV death and hospitalizations; heart transplantation; and a combined outcome of all‐cause death, heart transplantation, or heart failure (HF) hospitalization. Multivariable risk factor analyses were performed for the combined endpoint. All outcomes were more frequent in LDCM than in RODCM. The multivariable‐adjusted hazard ratios (HRs) (95% confidence interval) for LDCM vs. RODCM were 1.56 (1.34–1.82), P < 0.0001, for all‐cause death over a median follow‐up of 4.2 and 5.0 years, respectively; 1.67 (1.36–2.05), P < 0.0001, for CV death; 2.12 (1.14–3.91), P < 0.0001, for heart transplantation; 1.36 (1.21–1.53), P < 0.0001, for HF hospitalization; and 1.37 (1.24–1.52), P < 0.0001, for the combined outcome. A propensity score‐matched analysis yielded similar results. CV death was the main cause of mortality in LDCM and was higher in LDCM than in RODCM (P < 0.0001). Almost all co‐morbidities were significantly more frequent in LDCM than in RODCM, and the mean number of co‐morbidities increased significantly with increased duration of disease, also after age adjustment. Age, New York Heart Association functional class, ejection fraction, and left bundle branch block were prognostically adverse. The only co‐morbidity associated with the combined outcome regardless of HF duration was diabetes, in LDCM [HR 1.34 (1.15–1.56), P = 0.0002] and in RODCM [HR 1.29 (1.04–1.59), P = 0.018]. Male sex [HR 1.38 (1.18–1.63), P < 0.0001] and aspirin use [HR 1.33 (1.14–1.55), P = 0.0004] carried increased risk only in RODCM. Heart rate ≥75 b.p.m. [HR 1.20 (1.04–1.37), P = 0.01], atrial fibrillation [HR 1.24 (1.08–1.42), P = 0.0024], musculoskeletal or connective tissue disorder [HR 1.36 (1.13–1.63), P = 0.0014], and diuretic therapy [HR 1.40 (1.17–1.67), P = 0.0002] were prognostically adverse only in LDCM. Conclusions This nationwide study of patients with DCM demonstrates that longer disease duration is associated with worse prognosis. Co‐morbidities are more common in long‐standing HF than in recent‐onset HF and are associated with worse outcome. With the increased survival seen in the last decades, our results highlight the importance of careful attention to co‐morbid conditions in patients with DCM.https://doi.org/10.1002/ehf2.13816Dilated cardiomyopathyHeart failureSystolicMortalityHospitalizationCo‐morbidityDuration of therapy
spellingShingle Jonas Silverdal
Helen Sjöland
Aldina Pivodic
Ulf Dahlström
Michael Fu
Entela Bollano
Prognostic differences in long‐standing vs. recent‐onset dilated cardiomyopathy
ESC Heart Failure
Dilated cardiomyopathy
Heart failure
Systolic
MortalityHospitalizationCo‐morbidity
Duration of therapy
title Prognostic differences in long‐standing vs. recent‐onset dilated cardiomyopathy
title_full Prognostic differences in long‐standing vs. recent‐onset dilated cardiomyopathy
title_fullStr Prognostic differences in long‐standing vs. recent‐onset dilated cardiomyopathy
title_full_unstemmed Prognostic differences in long‐standing vs. recent‐onset dilated cardiomyopathy
title_short Prognostic differences in long‐standing vs. recent‐onset dilated cardiomyopathy
title_sort prognostic differences in long standing vs recent onset dilated cardiomyopathy
topic Dilated cardiomyopathy
Heart failure
Systolic
MortalityHospitalizationCo‐morbidity
Duration of therapy
url https://doi.org/10.1002/ehf2.13816
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