A comparison of risk factors for mortality from heart failure in Asian and non-Asian populations: An overview of individual participant data from 32 prospective cohorts from the Asia-Pacific Region

Background: Most of what is known regarding the epidemiology of mortality from heart failure (HF) comes from studies within Western populations with few data available from the Asia-Pacific region where the burden of heart failure is increasing.Methods: Individual level data from 543694 (85% Asian;...

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Main Authors: Huxley, Rachel, Barzi, F., Woo, J., Giles, G., Lam, T., Rahimi, K., Konety, S., Ohkubo, T., Jee, S., Fang, X., Woodward, M., Okayama, A., Ueshima, H., Maegawa, H., Nakamura, M., Aoki, N., Wu, Z., Yao, C., Luszcz, M., Welborn, T., Tang, Z., Liu, L., Xie, J., Norton, R., Ameratunga, S., MacMahon, S., Whitlock, G., Knuiman, M., Christensen, H., Wu, X., Zhou, J., Yu, X., Tamakoshi, A., Pan, W., Chen, L., Shan, G., Sritara, P., Gu, D., Duan, X., Jackson, R., Li, Y., Jiang, C., Kiyohara, Y., Arima, H., Iida, M., Ho, S., Hong, Z., Huang, M., Zhou, B., Fuh, J., Kita, Y., Choudhury, S., Suh, I., Kim, I., Hashimoto, T., Sakata, K., Dobson, A., Imai, Y., Hozawa, A., the late, K., Hobbs, M., Broadhurst, R., Nakachi, K., Li, S., Yang, Q., Chen, Z., Tanaka, H., Nozaki, A., Horibe, H., Matsutani, Y., Kagaya, M., Hughes, K., Lee, J., Heng, D., Chew, S., Zhang, H., Shimamoto, K., Saitoh, S., Li, Z., Norman, P., Jamrozik, K., He, Y.
Format: Journal Article
Published: 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/23724