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The Heart Failure Association Atlas reported a median heart failure incidence of 3.2 cases per 1000 person-years and prevalence of 17.20 cases per 1000 people across European countries.
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The HFA Atlas highlights the contemporary epidemiology of heart failure in Europe, revealing significant heterogeneity in incidence, prevalence, and management across countries.
The epidemiology of heart failure (HF) is still unsettled, above all in European countries, because of marked differences in coding and management modalities. To date, most of our data came from analyses of dedicated studies and trials. The Heart Failure Association (HFA) Atlas is a novel European data set, developed to provide a contemporary description of HF epidemiology and management. The median incidence of HF was 3.2 [interquartile range (IQR) 2.66-4.17] cases per 1000 person-years; the median HF prevalence was 17.20 (IQR 14.30-21) cases per 1000 people and the median number of HF hospitalizations was 2671 (IQR 1771-4317) per million people, annually. A large heterogeneity among different countries both with respect to epidemiology and management was shown. 3
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Tomasoni et al. (2021) conducted an observational in Heart failure. The Heart Failure Association Atlas reported a median heart failure incidence of 3.2 cases per 1000 person-years and prevalence of 17.20 cases per 1000 people across European countries.
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