Incident heart failure before age 50 is more common in Black individuals, highlighting early-life hypertension, obesity, and systolic dysfunction as key targets for prevention.
Incident heart failure before 50 years of age is substantially more common among blacks than among whites. Hypertension, obesity, and systolic dysfunction that are present before a person is 35 years of age are important antecedents that may be targets for the prevention of heart failure. (ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT00005130.)
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