INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ADVANCES IN CASE REPORTS THE PREVALENCE OF RISK FACTORS IN PATIENTS WITH HEART FAILURE

Abstract

ABSTRACT Chronic heart failure (HF) is a highly prevalent chronic pathological condition with high morbidity and mortality rates. The purpose of this study was to determine the common and important risk factors in patients with ischemic HF. 389 patients with HF of ischemic genesis were observed in this cross-sectional descriptive study. We established, that the most prevalent risk-factors in patients with ischemic heart failure were: previous history of myocardial infarction, comorbidities (arterial hypertension, 2 type diabetes, chronic kidney disease etc.), cigarette smoking, untargeted blood pressure and low density lipoproteins cholesterol level