Aims: This study aimed to assess age- and sex-related differences in management and 1-year risk for all-cause mortality and hospitalization in chronic heart failure (HF) patients. Methods and results: Of 16 354 patients included in the European Society of Cardiology Heart Failure Long-Term Registry, 9428 chronic HF patients were analysed [median age: 66 years; 28.5% women; mean left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) 37%]. Rates of use of guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT) were high (angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors/angiotensin receptor blockers, beta-blockers and mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists: 85.7%, 88.7% and 58.8%, respectively). Crude GDMT utilization rates were lower in women than in men (all differences: P ≤ 0.001), and GDMT use became lower with ageing in both sexes, at baseline and at 1-year follow-up. Sex was not an independent predictor of GDMT prescription; however, age >75 years was a significant predictor of GDMT underutilization. Rates of all-cause mortality were lower in women than in men (7.1% vs. 8.7%; P = 0.015), as were rates of all-cause hospitalization (21.9% vs. 27.3%; P < 0.001) and there were no differences in causes of death. All-cause mortality and all-cause hospitalization increased with greater age in both sexes. Sex was not an independent predictor of 1-year all-cause mortality (restricted to patients with LVEF ≤45%). Mortality risk was significantly lower in patients of younger age, compared to patients aged >75 years. Conclusions: There was a decline in GDMT use with advanced age in both sexes. Sex was not an independent predictor of GDMT or adverse outcomes. However, age >75 years independently predicted lower GDMT use and higher all-cause mortality in patients with LVEF ≤45%.

Sex- and age-related differences in the management and outcomes of chronic heart failure: an analysis of patients from the ESC HFA EORP Heart Failure Long-Term Registry / Lainscak, M., Milinkovic, I., Polovina, M., Crespo-Leiro, M.G., Lund, L.H., Anker, S.D., Laroche, C., Ferrari, R., Coats, A.J.S., Mcdonagh, T., Filippatos, G., Maggioni, A.P., Piepoli, M.F., Rosano, G.M.C., Ruschitzka, F., Simic, D., Asanin, M., Eicher, J.-C., Yilmaz, M.B., Seferovic, P.M., et al.. - In: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HEART FAILURE. - ISSN 1388-9842. - 22:1(2020), pp. 92-102. [10.1002/ejhf.1645]

Sex- and age-related differences in the management and outcomes of chronic heart failure: an analysis of patients from the ESC HFA EORP Heart Failure Long-Term Registry

Modena M. G.;
2020

Abstract

Aims: This study aimed to assess age- and sex-related differences in management and 1-year risk for all-cause mortality and hospitalization in chronic heart failure (HF) patients. Methods and results: Of 16 354 patients included in the European Society of Cardiology Heart Failure Long-Term Registry, 9428 chronic HF patients were analysed [median age: 66 years; 28.5% women; mean left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) 37%]. Rates of use of guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT) were high (angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors/angiotensin receptor blockers, beta-blockers and mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists: 85.7%, 88.7% and 58.8%, respectively). Crude GDMT utilization rates were lower in women than in men (all differences: P ≤ 0.001), and GDMT use became lower with ageing in both sexes, at baseline and at 1-year follow-up. Sex was not an independent predictor of GDMT prescription; however, age >75 years was a significant predictor of GDMT underutilization. Rates of all-cause mortality were lower in women than in men (7.1% vs. 8.7%; P = 0.015), as were rates of all-cause hospitalization (21.9% vs. 27.3%; P < 0.001) and there were no differences in causes of death. All-cause mortality and all-cause hospitalization increased with greater age in both sexes. Sex was not an independent predictor of 1-year all-cause mortality (restricted to patients with LVEF ≤45%). Mortality risk was significantly lower in patients of younger age, compared to patients aged >75 years. Conclusions: There was a decline in GDMT use with advanced age in both sexes. Sex was not an independent predictor of GDMT or adverse outcomes. However, age >75 years independently predicted lower GDMT use and higher all-cause mortality in patients with LVEF ≤45%.
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2020
20-dic-2019
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Age; Hospitalization; Mortality; Registry; Sex
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Sex- and age-related differences in the management and outcomes of chronic heart failure: an analysis of patients from the ESC HFA EORP Heart Failure Long-Term Registry / Lainscak, M., Milinkovic, I., Polovina, M., Crespo-Leiro, M.G., Lund, L.H., Anker, S.D., Laroche, C., Ferrari, R., Coats, A.J.S., Mcdonagh, T., Filippatos, G., Maggioni, A.P., Piepoli, M.F., Rosano, G.M.C., Ruschitzka, F., Simic, D., Asanin, M., Eicher, J.-C., Yilmaz, M.B., Seferovic, P.M., et al.. - In: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HEART FAILURE. - ISSN 1388-9842. - 22:1(2020), pp. 92-102. [10.1002/ejhf.1645]
Lainscak, M.; Milinkovic, I.; Polovina, M.; Crespo-Leiro, M. G.; Lund, L. H.; Anker, S. D.; Laroche, C.; Ferrari, R.; Coats, A. J. S.; Mcdonagh, T.; F...espandi
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