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May 15, 2025Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care0 citationsOpen Access

Detection of heart failure in a general population not aware of having the disease

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Why the study?

Heart failure is a leading cause of hospitalization and death worldwide, and variables helpful for early HF diagnosis in primary care needed identification.

Can easily available clinical variables, NT-proBNP, and ECG accurately detect unrecognized heart failure in a general population?

Population

1863 participants aged ≥ 40 years without known HF from the 7th Tromsø study

Design

Population-based cross-sectional study

Authors

HSHenrik SchirmerJSJuan Carlos Aviles SolisMSMark Spigt

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Overview

Model shows promise for unrecognized HF detection in primary care; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation before clinical use.

Structured PICO

Can easily available clinical variables, NT-proBNP, and ECG accurately detect unrecognized heart failure in a general population?

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Population
1863 participants aged ≥ 40 years from the 7th Tromsø study who reported not having heart failure.
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Intervention
Diagnostic predictive models using clinical variables (hypertension, myocardial infarction, atrial fibrillation, body-mass index, dyspnea) with or without NT-proBNP and ECG.
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Outcome
Diagnosis of heart failure according to 2016 European guidelines.

Cite This Study

Schirmer et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a8244e344e83484cc93b481https://doi.org/10.1080/02813432.2025.2503447
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