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Introduction: Iron deciency (ID) is a signicant comorbidity of heart failure (HF). However, ID remains insufciently detected(Manceau et al., 2022). The symptoms of ID are non-specic and often confused with those of HF or comorbidities. HF patients with ID are often re-hospitalized and have decrease life expectancy. Aim: Method: Evaluation of iron status in patients with chronic heart failure with reduced ejection fraction. It is a cross sectional study of 80 adult patients of chronic heart failure with reduced ejection fraction attending medicine outpatient department in SSG hospital, Vadodara, India. Result: Prevalence of ID in heart failure patients was 43.8% in this study. In ID group 40.0% of patients had two past history of hospitalization and in non-ID group majority (64.4%) of patients had only 1 past history of hospitalization. In ID group most (82.9%) of patients had <30% LVEF (left ventricular ejection fraction) and 17.1% of patients had LVEF between 31% and 40%. Conclusion: This study reinforces the usefulness of iron status evaluation in the routine assessment of chronic heart failure with reduced ejection fraction as it is common to have iron deciency in them and it is amenable to correction reducing morbidity
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