Long-term survival and life expectancy following an acute heart failure hospitalization in Australia and New Zealand

© 2022 The Authors. European Journal of Heart Failure published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of European Society of Cardiology..

AIMS: Contemporary long-term survival following a heart failure (HF) hospitalization is uncertain. We evaluated survival up to 10 years after a HF hospitalization using national data from Australia and New Zealand, identified predictors of survival, and estimated the attributable loss in life expectancy.

METHODS AND RESULTS: Patients hospitalized with a primary diagnosis of HF from 2008-2017 were identified and all-cause mortality assessed by linking with Death Registries. Flexible parametric survival models were used to estimate survival, predictors of survival and loss in life expectancy. A total of 283 048 patients with HF were included (mean age 78.2 ± 12.3 years, 50.8% male). Of these, 48.3% (48.1-48.5) were surviving by 3 years, 34.1% (33.9-34.3) by 5 years and 17.1% (16.8-17.4) by 10 years (median survival 2.8 years). Survival declined with age with 53.4% of patients aged 18-54 years and 6.2% aged ≥85 years alive by 10 years (adjusted hazard ratio [aHR] for mortality 4.84, 95% confidence interval [CI] 4.65-5.04 for ≥85 years vs. 18-54 years) and was worse in male patients (aHR 1.14, 95% CI 1.13-1.15). Prior HF (aHR 1.20, 95% CI 1.18-1.22), valvular and rheumatic heart disease (aHR 1.11, 95% CI 1.10-1.13) and vascular disease (aHR 1.07, 95% CI 1.04-1.09) were cardiovascular comorbidities most strongly associated with long-term death. Non-cardiovascular comorbidities and geriatric syndromes were common and associated with higher mortality. Compared with the general population, HF was associated with a loss of 7.3 years in life expectancy (or 56.6% of the expected life expectancy) and reached 20.5 years for those aged 18-54 years.

CONCLUSION: Less than one in five patients hospitalized for HF were surviving by 10 years with patients experiencing almost 60% loss in life expectancy compared with the general population, highlighting the considerable persisting societal burden of HF. Concerted multidisciplinary efforts are needed to improve post-hospitalization outcomes of HF.

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CommentIn: Eur J Heart Fail. 2022 Sep;24(9):1529-1531. - PMID 35918910

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:24

Enthalten in:

European journal of heart failure - 24(2022), 9 vom: 15. Sept., Seite 1519-1528

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Hariharaputhiran, Saranya [VerfasserIn]
Peng, Yang [VerfasserIn]
Ngo, Linh [VerfasserIn]
Ali, Anna [VerfasserIn]
Hossain, Sadia [VerfasserIn]
Visvanathan, Renuka [VerfasserIn]
Adams, Robert [VerfasserIn]
Chan, Wandy [VerfasserIn]
Ranasinghe, Isuru [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Heart failure
Hospitalizations
Journal Article
Mortality
Outcomes
Prognosis
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Survival

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Date Completed 11.10.2022

Date Revised 04.01.2023

published: Print-Electronic

CommentIn: Eur J Heart Fail. 2022 Sep;24(9):1529-1531. - PMID 35918910

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1002/ejhf.2595

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NLM342691910