Epidemiology of Heart Failure

Recommendations for Chamber Quantification: A Report from the American Society of Echocardiography’s Guidelines and Standards Committee and the Chamber Quantification Writing Group, Developed in Conjunction with the European Association of Echocardiography, a Branch of the European Society of Cardiology

2005 • 11,108 citations

Heart disease and stroke statistics--2012 update: a report from the American Heart Association.

2012 • 6,982 citations

The sixth report of the Joint National Committee on prevention, detection, evaluation, and treatment of high blood pressure

1997 • 5,689 citations

Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics—2013 Update

2012 • 5,215 citations

Recommendations for the Evaluation of Left Ventricular Diastolic Function by Echocardiography

2009 • 4,320 citations

ACC/AHA 2005 Guideline Update for the Diagnosis and Management of Chronic Heart Failure in the Adult

2005 • 4,274 citations

Obesity as an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease: a 26-year follow-up of participants in the Framingham Heart Study.

1983 • 4,204 citations

Trends in Prevalence and Outcome of Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction

2006 • 3,991 citations

2009 Focused Update Incorporated Into the ACC/AHA 2005 Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Heart Failure in Adults

2009 • 3,773 citations

The Sixth Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure

1997 • 3,652 citations

The Natural History of Congestive Heart Failure: The Framingham Study

1971 • 3,350 citations

Recommendations for the Evaluation of Left Ventricular Diastolic Function by Echocardiography

2008 • 3,115 citations

Doppler Tissue Imaging: A Noninvasive Technique for Evaluation of Left Ventricular Relaxation and Estimation of Filling Pressures

1997 • 2,998 citations

Burden of Systolic and Diastolic Ventricular Dysfunction in the Community

2003 • 2,930 citations

The Continuing Epidemics of Obesity and Diabetes in the United States

2001 • 2,803 citations

Clinical Utility of Doppler Echocardiography and Tissue Doppler Imaging in the Estimation of Left Ventricular Filling Pressures

2000 • 2,755 citations

Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of chronic heart failure: executive summary (update 2005)

2005 • 2,272 citations

ACC/AHA 2005 Guideline Update for the Diagnosis and Management of Chronic Heart Failure in the Adult

2005 • 2,255 citations

Long-Term Trends in the Incidence of and Survival with Heart Failure

2002 • 2,132 citations

The Progression From Hypertension to Congestive Heart Failure

1996 • 2,022 citations

Population Trends in the Incidence and Outcomes of Acute Myocardial Infarction

2010 • 1,630 citations

Assessment of Mitral Annulus Velocity by Doppler Tissue Imaging in the Evaluation of Left Ventricular Diastolic Function

1997 • 1,573 citations

Long-term ACE-inhibitor therapy in patients with heart failure or left-ventricular dysfunction: a systematic overview of data from individual patients

2000 • 1,567 citations

Trends in Heart Failure Incidence and Survival in a Community-Based Population

2004 • 1,564 citations

Lifetime Risk for Developing Congestive Heart Failure

2002 • 1,562 citations

Diastolic Heart Failure — Abnormalities in Active Relaxation and Passive Stiffness of the Left Ventricle

2004 • 1,457 citations

Cardiovascular Medicine at the Turn of the Millennium: Triumphs, Concerns, and Opportunities

1997 • 1,443 citations

The Effect of Acute Renal Failure on Mortality

1996 • 1,405 citations

2009 Focused Update: ACCF/AHA Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Heart Failure in Adults

2009 • 1,380 citations

2009 Focused Update Incorporated Into the ACC/AHA 2005 Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Heart Failure in Adults

2009 • 1,327 citations

Prediction of Lifetime Risk for Cardiovascular Disease by Risk Factor Burden at 50 Years of Age

2006 • 1,266 citations

Pulmonary Hypertension in Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction

2009 • 1,254 citations

Risk Factors for Congestive Heart Failure in US Men and Women

2001 • 1,155 citations

Congestive Heart Failure in the Community

1998 • 1,109 citations

Quantifying the heart failure epidemic: prevalence, incidence rate, lifetime risk and prognosis of heart failure The Rotterdam Study.

2004 • 1,039 citations

New Doppler echocardiographic applications for the study of diastolic function

1998 • 1,012 citations

Diagnoses and Timing of 30-Day Readmissions After Hospitalization for Heart Failure, Acute Myocardial Infarction, or Pneumonia

2013 • 953 citations

Systolic Blood Pressure at Admission, Clinical Characteristics, and Outcomes in Patients Hospitalized With Acute Heart Failure

2006 • 943 citations

Prevalence of left-ventricular systolic dysfunction and heart failure in the Echocardiographic Heart of England Screening study: a population based study

2001 • 936 citations

Clinical Presentation, Management, and In-Hospital Outcomes of Patients Admitted With Acute Decompensated Heart Failure With Preserved Systolic Function

2005 • 915 citations

Combined Ventricular Systolic and Arterial Stiffening in Patients With Heart Failure and Preserved Ejection Fraction

2003 • 907 citations

Predictors of congestive heart failure in the elderly: the cardiovascular health study

2000 • 905 citations

Systolic and Diastolic Heart Failure in the Community

2006 • 898 citations

Pathophysiological Characterization of Isolated Diastolic Heart Failure in Comparison to Systolic Heart Failure

2002 • 860 citations

Readmission After Hospitalization for Congestive Heart Failure Among Medicare Beneficiaries

1997 • 836 citations

Prevalence and mortality rate of congestive heart failure in the United States

1992 • 829 citations

HEART FAILURE: Epidemiology, aetiology, and prognosis of heart failure

2000 • 819 citations

Chronic Heart Failure in the United States

1998 • 787 citations

Acute Heart Failure Syndromes

2005 • 745 citations

Defining Diastolic Heart Failure

2000 • 735 citations

National and Regional Trends in Heart Failure Hospitalization and Mortality Rates for Medicare Beneficiaries, 1998-2008

2011 • 721 citations

Incidence and aetiology of heart failure; a population-based study

1999 • 717 citations

Trends in Length of Stay and Short-term Outcomes Among Medicare Patients Hospitalized for Heart Failure, 1993-2006

2010 • 685 citations

Heart Failure Incidence and Survival (from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study)

2008 • 668 citations

Epidemiology of Sudden Cardiac Death: Clinical and Research Implications

2008 • 665 citations

Glycemic Control and Heart Failure Among Adult Patients With Diabetes

2001 • 664 citations

The Polymorphonuclear Leukocyte and the Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm

2005 • 630 citations

Discordance of Databases Designed for Claims Payment versus Clinical Information Systems: Implications for Outcomes Research

1993 • 621 citations

Survival of patients with a new diagnosis of heart failure: a population based study

2000 • 576 citations

Congestive Heart Failure in Type 2 Diabetes

2001 • 574 citations

Evidence of Improving Prognosis in Heart Failure

2000 • 565 citations

Confirmation of a heart failure epidemic: findings from the Resource Utilization Among Congestive Heart Failure (REACH) study

2002 • 555 citations

Obesity and Heart Disease

1997 • 536 citations

Heart Failure-Related Hospitalization in the U.S., 1979 to 2004

2008 • 527 citations

Long-Term Trends in First Hospitalization for Heart Failure and Subsequent Survival Between 1986 and 2003

2009 • 525 citations

Differences in the Incidence of Congestive Heart Failure by Ethnicity

2008 • 514 citations

Long-Term Trends in the Incidence of Heart Failure After Myocardial Infarction

2008 • 488 citations

What Mechanisms Underlie Diastolic Dysfunction in Heart Failure?

2004 • 477 citations

Thirty-Day Readmissions — Truth and Consequences

2012 • 471 citations

Optimal Noninvasive Assessment of Left Ventricular Filling Pressures

2004 • 465 citations

The prognosis of heart failure in the general population. The Rotterdam Study

2001 • 454 citations

Methods of assessing prevalent cardiovascular disease in the Cardiovascular Health Study

1995 • 447 citations

Congestive Heart Failure in the Community

1999 • 406 citations

Coronary artery disease as the cause of incident heart failure in the population

2001 • 397 citations

Cardiac cycle-dependent changes in aortic area and distensibility are reduced in older patients with isolated diastolic heart failure and correlate with exercise intolerance

2001 • 381 citations

Heart Failure–Associated Hospitalizations in the United States

2013 • 361 citations

Organized program to initiate lifesaving treatment in hospitalized patients with heart failure (OPTIMIZE-HF): rationale and design

2004 • 344 citations

Incidence and Prevalence of Heart Failure in Elderly Persons, 1994-2003

2008 • 337 citations

Twenty-Two–Year Trends in Incidence of Myocardial Infarction, Coronary Heart Disease Mortality, and Case Fatality in 4 US Communities, 1987–2008

2012 • 335 citations

Changing epidemiological features of cardiac failure

1994 • 335 citations

Trends in Incidence, Severity, and Outcome of Hospitalized Myocardial Infarction

2010 • 331 citations

Correlates of Early Hospital Readmission or Death in Patients With Congestive Heart Failure

1997 • 316 citations

The role of NT-proBNP in the diagnostics of isolated diastolic dysfunction: correlation with echocardiographic and invasive measurements

2005 • 312 citations

Classification of Heart Failure in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study

2012 • 300 citations

A Path Forward on Medicare Readmissions

2013 • 293 citations

Risk Factors for Heart Failure: A Population-Based Case-Control Study

2009 • 280 citations

Death in Heart Failure

2008 • 277 citations

Changing Incidence and Survival for Heart Failure in a Well-Defined Older Population, 1970–1974 and 1990–1994

2006 • 268 citations

Congestive heart failure despite normal left ventricular systolic function in a population-based sample: the Strong Heart Study∗∗The views expressed in this study are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the Indian Health Service.

2000 • 262 citations

An analysis of physicians' reasons for prescribing long-term digitalis therapy in outpatients

1985 • 247 citations

Diabetic Cardiomyopathy: A unique entity or a complication of coronary artery disease?

1995 • 243 citations

Trends in hospitalization for heart failure in Scotland, 1990–1996. An epidemic that has reached its peak?

2001 • 234 citations

Lifetime Risk for Heart Failure Among White and Black Americans

2013 • 220 citations

Left Heart Failure With a Normal Ejection Fraction: Identification of Different Pathophysiologic Mechanisms

2005 • 200 citations

ACC/AHA Key Data Elements and Definitions for Measuring the Clinical Management and Outcomes of Patients With Chronic Heart Failure

2005 • 192 citations

Should echocardiography be performed to assess effects of antihypertensive therapy? Test-retest reliability of echocardiography for measurement of left ventricular mass and function

1995 • 188 citations

Cardiac and pulmonary causes of dyspnoea—validation of a scoring test for clinical-epidemiological use: The Study of Men Born in 1913

1987 • 176 citations

Trends in hospital activity, morbidity and case fatality related to atrial fibrillation in Scotland, 1986–1996

2001 • 170 citations

Left Ventricular Concentric Remodeling Is Associated With Decreased Global and Regional Systolic Function: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis

2005 • 170 citations

Echocardiographic Evaluation of Diastolic Function Can Be Used to Guide Clinical Care

2009 • 159 citations

Quality of Care for Elderly Patients Hospitalized With Heart Failure

1997 • 159 citations

Incidence of Heart Failure after Myocardial Infarction: Is It Changing over Time?

2003 • 158 citations

Divergent Trends in Survival and Readmission Following a Hospitalization for Heart Failure in the Veterans Affairs Health Care System 2002 to 2006

2010 • 155 citations

Incidence of heart failure in eastern Finland: a population-based surveillance study

1992 • 152 citations

Use of echocardiography in the management of congestive heart failure in the community

1999 • 151 citations

Intraoperative Doppler color flow mapping for decision-making in valve repair for mitral regurgitation. Technique and results in 100 patients.

1990 • 150 citations

Trends in the incidence and outcomes of heart failure in Ontario, Canada: 1997 to 2007

2012 • 142 citations

Diagnostic Criteria for Diastolic Heart Failure

2005 • 137 citations

Incidence and hospital death rates associated with heart failure: A community-wide perspective

2005 • 133 citations

Predicting one-year mortality among elderly survivors of hospitalization for an acute myocardial infarction: results from the Cooperative Cardiovascular Project

2001 • 132 citations

Detection and Control of High Blood Pressure in the Community

1999 • 129 citations

Possible Influence of the Prospective Payment System on the Assignment of Discharge Diagnoses for Coronary Heart Disease

1993 • 125 citations

Overview of the American Heart Association “Get With the Guidelines” Programs

2006 • 123 citations

Relative Contributions of Incidence and Survival to Increasing Prevalence of Adult-Onset Diabetes Mellitus: A Population-based Study

1997 • 121 citations

Classification of heart failure in population based research: an assessment of six heart failure scores.

1997 • 115 citations

National Trends in the Initial Hospitalization for Heart Failure

1997 • 115 citations

Assessment of Diastolic Function

2005 • 108 citations

The Population Burden of Heart Failure Attributable to Modifiable Risk Factors

2012 • 101 citations

The diagnosis of heart failure in the community

2004 • 99 citations

Social deprivation increases cardiac hospitalisations in chronic heart failure independent of disease severity and diuretic non-adherence

2000 • 88 citations

Survival Associated with Two Sets of Diagnostic Criteria for Congestive Heart Failure

2004 • 84 citations

Response to Tschöpe and Paulus

2009 • 84 citations

Poor concordance of commonly used echocardiographic measures of left ventricular diastolic function in patients with suspected heart failure but preserved systolic function: is there a reliable echocardiographic measure of diastolic dysfunction?

2004 • 77 citations

Trends in coronary heart disease mortality : the influence of medical care

1988 • 75 citations

The potential costs of upcoding for heart failure in the United States

1999 • 75 citations

Determinants of Appropriate Use of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors After Acute Myocardial Infarction in Persons ≥65 Years of Age

1997 • 74 citations

Characterization of heart failure patients with preserved ejection fraction: a comparison between ADHERE-US registry and ADHERE-International registry

2011 • 73 citations

Diagnostic Heterogeneity in Clinical Trials for Congestive Heart Failure

1988 • 70 citations

Left Ventricular Concentric Remodeling Is Associated With Decreased Global and Regional Systolic Function

2005 • 69 citations

Tissue Doppler imaging in the evaluation of left ventricular diastolic function

2004 • 63 citations

Cross sectional study estimating prevalence of heart failure and left ventricular systolic dysfunction in community patients at risk

2001 • 59 citations

Heart failure after myocardial infarction: Prevalence of preserved left ventricular systolic function in the community

2003 • 58 citations

Decreasing trends in the incidence of heart failure after acute myocardial infarction from 1993–2004: a study of 175 216 patients with a first acute myocardial infarction in Sweden

2010 • 58 citations

Pro-inflammatory cytokines and endothelium-dependent vasodilation in the forearm. Serial assessment in patients with congestive heart failure

1998 • 58 citations

HEART FAILURE: The diagnosis of heart failure

2000 • 48 citations

Lack of relationship between doppler indices of diastolic function and left ventricular pressure transients in patients with definite diastolic heart failure

2004 • 47 citations

Doppler‐echocardiographic indices of diastolic function in heart failure admissions with preserved left ventricular systolic function

2002 • 38 citations

Long-term Trends in Short-term Outcomes in Acute Myocardial Infarction

2011 • 30 citations

The Potentially Modifiable Burden of Incident Heart Failure Due to Obesity: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study

2010 • 30 citations

Use of Ejection Fraction Tests and Coronary Angiography in Patients With Heart Failure

2006 • 25 citations

Classification of Acute Decompensated Heart Failure

2013 • 18 citations

Surrogate Markers in AIDS Research

1996 • 18 citations

NONINVASIVE MODALITIES

2000 • 12 citations

The role of cardiovascular magnetic resonance in the evaluation of patients with heart failure

2004 • 12 citations

Data Sources for Heart Failure Comparative Effectiveness Research

2012 • 8 citations

Multimodality imaging in heart failure patients

2013 • 7 citations

Deleted Work

1955 • 0 citations