National trends in heart failure mortality in men and women, United Kingdom, 2000–2017

<p><strong>Aims</strong></p> <p>To understand gender differences in the prognosis of women and men with heart failure, we compared mortality, cause of death and survival trends over time.</p> <p><strong>Methods and Results</strong></p> <...

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Main Authors: Taylor, CJ, Ordóñez-Mena, JM, Jones, NR, Roalfe, AK, Lay-Flurrie, S, Marshall, T, Hobbs, FDR
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2020
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author Taylor, CJ
Ordóñez-Mena, JM
Jones, NR
Roalfe, AK
Lay-Flurrie, S
Marshall, T
Hobbs, FDR
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Ordóñez-Mena, JM
Jones, NR
Roalfe, AK
Lay-Flurrie, S
Marshall, T
Hobbs, FDR
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description <p><strong>Aims</strong></p> <p>To understand gender differences in the prognosis of women and men with heart failure, we compared mortality, cause of death and survival trends over time.</p> <p><strong>Methods and Results</strong></p> <p>We analysed UK primary care data for 26 725 women and 29 234 men over age 45 years with a new diagnosis of heart failure between 1 January 2000 and 31 December 2017 using the Clinical Practice Research Datalink, inpatient Hospital Episode Statistics and the Office for National Statistics death registry. Age‐specific overall survival and cause‐specific mortality rates were calculated by gender and year. During the study period 15 084 women and 15 822 men with heart failure died. Women were on average 5 years older at diagnosis (79.6 vs. 74.8 years). Median survival was lower in women compared to men (3.99 vs. 4.47 years), but women had a 14% age‐adjusted lower risk of all‐cause mortality [hazard ratio (HR) 0.86, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.84–0.88]. Heart failure was equally likely to be cause of death in women and men (HR 1.03, 95% CI 0.96–1.12). There were modest improvements in survival for both genders, but these were greater in men. The reduction in mortality risk in women was greatest for those diagnosed in the community (HR 0.83, 95% CI 0.80–0.85).</p> <p><strong>Conclusions</strong></p> <p>Women are diagnosed with heart failure older than men but have a better age‐adjusted prognosis. Survival gains were less in women over the last two decades. Addressing gender differences in heart failure diagnostic and treatment pathways should be a clinical and research priority.</p>
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spelling oxford-uuid:b773ca49-6fa6-49b8-85ca-06ec54a994b32022-03-27T04:48:53ZNational trends in heart failure mortality in men and women, United Kingdom, 2000–2017Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:b773ca49-6fa6-49b8-85ca-06ec54a994b3EnglishSymplectic ElementsWiley2020Taylor, CJOrdóñez-Mena, JMJones, NRRoalfe, AKLay-Flurrie, SMarshall, THobbs, FDR<p><strong>Aims</strong></p> <p>To understand gender differences in the prognosis of women and men with heart failure, we compared mortality, cause of death and survival trends over time.</p> <p><strong>Methods and Results</strong></p> <p>We analysed UK primary care data for 26 725 women and 29 234 men over age 45 years with a new diagnosis of heart failure between 1 January 2000 and 31 December 2017 using the Clinical Practice Research Datalink, inpatient Hospital Episode Statistics and the Office for National Statistics death registry. Age‐specific overall survival and cause‐specific mortality rates were calculated by gender and year. During the study period 15 084 women and 15 822 men with heart failure died. Women were on average 5 years older at diagnosis (79.6 vs. 74.8 years). Median survival was lower in women compared to men (3.99 vs. 4.47 years), but women had a 14% age‐adjusted lower risk of all‐cause mortality [hazard ratio (HR) 0.86, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.84–0.88]. Heart failure was equally likely to be cause of death in women and men (HR 1.03, 95% CI 0.96–1.12). There were modest improvements in survival for both genders, but these were greater in men. The reduction in mortality risk in women was greatest for those diagnosed in the community (HR 0.83, 95% CI 0.80–0.85).</p> <p><strong>Conclusions</strong></p> <p>Women are diagnosed with heart failure older than men but have a better age‐adjusted prognosis. Survival gains were less in women over the last two decades. Addressing gender differences in heart failure diagnostic and treatment pathways should be a clinical and research priority.</p>
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Ordóñez-Mena, JM
Jones, NR
Roalfe, AK
Lay-Flurrie, S
Marshall, T
Hobbs, FDR
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