| Journal Call no. | R644.H63J573 |
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| Author | Hung, Y. T. |
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| Article Title | Epidemiology of heart failure in Hong Kong, 1997 / Y.T. Hung ... [et al.]. |
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| Is Part Of | Hong Kong medical journal ; v.6, no.2, Jun 2000, p.159-162, illus. |
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| Abstract | The article analyses the epidemiology of heart failure in Hong Kong, 1997 through retrospective study with 1-year follow-up conducted at accident and emergency departments of 11 hospitals of the Hospital Authority, Hong Kong. The participants include all patients admitted to hospital in 1997 with heart failure as the primary diagnosis. There were 4589 new and 1614 old cases of heart failure that required hospital admission in 1997. The largest age-group was the 75-to 84-year group; 85 percent of the patients were older than 65 years and 56 percent of the patients were female. The incidence of heart disease increased with age, approximately doubling with each decade of age and reaching an annual incidence of 14 per 1000 men and 20 per 1000 women older that 85 years. The 1-year mortality rate also increased with age, reaching 40 percent for patients older than 85 years (overall, 32 percent). |
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