TY - JOUR
T1 - Anemia in patients with heart failure
T2 - Prevalence and prognostic role in a controlled trial and in clinical practice
AU - Maggioni, Aldo P.
AU - Opasich, Cristina
AU - Anand, Inder
AU - Barlera, Simona
AU - Carbonieri, Emanuele
AU - Gonzini, Lucio
AU - Tavazzi, Luigi
AU - Latini, Roberto
AU - Cohn, Jay
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding of the Val-HeFT trial was provided by Novartis Pharma, Basel, Switzerland. The IN-CHF registry was partially supported by Merck Sharpe Dohme, Italy.
PY - 2005/3
Y1 - 2005/3
N2 - Background: Aims of the present study were (1) to confirm the prognostic role of anemia in patients with heart failure (HF) and (2) to analyze this aspect in relatively unselected patients with HF monitored prospectively in a community setting (IN-CHF), and in patients selected for enrolment into the Valsartan Heart Failure Trial (Val-HeFT). Methods and Results: In both Val-HeFT and IN-CHF Registry, anemia was defined as a hemoglobin (Hb) level ≤11 g/dL in women and ≤12 g/dL in men. Of the 2411 patients of the IN-CHF Registry, 15.5% had anemia, whereas in the 5010 patients of the Val-HeFT trial, the prevalence was 9.9%. In the IN-CHF registry, 1-year all-cause mortality was significantly higher in anemic patients (25.9%) than in patients without anemia (13.2%) (P < .0001). The association of anemia with mortality was confirmed by the multivariable analysis (hazard ratio [HR] 1.54, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.20-1.97). The risk of death decreased by 9.7% for each gram of Hb. The Val-HeFT trial showed an all-cause mortality rate for anemic patients of 29.6% over a mean follow-up period of 22.4 months versus 18.5% (P < .0001) in patients without anemia. After adjustment, anemia retained its negative independent prognostic role (HR 1.26, 95% CI 1.04-1.52). When Hb was considered as a continuous variable, the risk of death decreased by 7.8% for each gram of Hb. Conclusions: Anemia was confirmed to be an independent negative prognostic factor in patients with HF. This finding is consistent in 2 different clinical contexts, a controlled trial and a registry in clinical practice, in which patient characteristics and outcome are largely different.
AB - Background: Aims of the present study were (1) to confirm the prognostic role of anemia in patients with heart failure (HF) and (2) to analyze this aspect in relatively unselected patients with HF monitored prospectively in a community setting (IN-CHF), and in patients selected for enrolment into the Valsartan Heart Failure Trial (Val-HeFT). Methods and Results: In both Val-HeFT and IN-CHF Registry, anemia was defined as a hemoglobin (Hb) level ≤11 g/dL in women and ≤12 g/dL in men. Of the 2411 patients of the IN-CHF Registry, 15.5% had anemia, whereas in the 5010 patients of the Val-HeFT trial, the prevalence was 9.9%. In the IN-CHF registry, 1-year all-cause mortality was significantly higher in anemic patients (25.9%) than in patients without anemia (13.2%) (P < .0001). The association of anemia with mortality was confirmed by the multivariable analysis (hazard ratio [HR] 1.54, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.20-1.97). The risk of death decreased by 9.7% for each gram of Hb. The Val-HeFT trial showed an all-cause mortality rate for anemic patients of 29.6% over a mean follow-up period of 22.4 months versus 18.5% (P < .0001) in patients without anemia. After adjustment, anemia retained its negative independent prognostic role (HR 1.26, 95% CI 1.04-1.52). When Hb was considered as a continuous variable, the risk of death decreased by 7.8% for each gram of Hb. Conclusions: Anemia was confirmed to be an independent negative prognostic factor in patients with HF. This finding is consistent in 2 different clinical contexts, a controlled trial and a registry in clinical practice, in which patient characteristics and outcome are largely different.
KW - Anemia
KW - Epidemiology
KW - Heart failure
KW - Prognosis
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U2 - 10.1016/j.cardfail.2004.05.004
DO - 10.1016/j.cardfail.2004.05.004
M3 - Article
C2 - 15732027
AN - SCOPUS:13944270337
SN - 1071-9164
VL - 11
SP - 91
EP - 98
JO - Journal of cardiac failure
JF - Journal of cardiac failure
IS - 2
ER -