BMJ  2003;327 (6 September), doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7414.0-c

Heart failure is more common but has better prognosis in South Asian patients

Rates of admission to hospital for heart failure are higher among South Asian people than the indigenous white population in the United Kingdom. Blackledge and colleagues (p 526) conducted a historical cohort study of 14 797 events for admission to hospital between 1998 and 2001. Admission and incidence rates were up to four times higher in South Asian patients than in white patients. At first admission for heart failure, South Asians were on average eight years younger than white patients and were more likely to have coronary heart disease and diabetes. Despite major differences in risk factors, survival outcomes are similar, if not better, among South Asian patients, the authors say.

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Prognosis for South Asian and white patients newly admitted to hospital with heart failure in the United Kingdom: historical cohort study

Hanna M Blackledge, James Newton, and Iain B Squire
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