Clinical Analysis Of 257 Cases Of Chronic Heart Failure With Preserved And Deteriorated Ejection Fraction

Backgrounds and Aims: Chronic heart failure is one of the cardiovascular diseases that in recent years have undergone the greatest increase in incidence and prevalence, nearly a quarter of patients with other heart diseases would be involved into CHF ultimately, which seriously threatened the quality and safety of human life, but now clinical studies accomplished couldn't make a consensus on their clinical and prognostic differences between HFPEF and HFDEF, and either couldn't make a therapeutic guideline for HFPEF. Our study aimed to compare to HFPEF and HFDEF on their clinical characteristics, regimens, prognosis and its probable death-related risk factors through case-data analysis, then provide references for clinical strategies or further large-scale study.Methods: We enrolled consecutive cases admitted to the Second Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing University of Medical Sciences between January 1 2002 and December 31 2005 according to the following rules: whose records met Framingham criteria for HF and were performed...