Trends in survival after a diagnosis of heart failure in the United Kingdom 2000-2017: population based cohort study

Abstract Objectives To report reliable estimates of short term and long term survival rates for people with a diagnosis of heart failure and to assess trends over time by year of diagnosis, hospital admission, and socioeconomic group. Design Population based cohort study. Setting Primary care, United Kingdom. Participants Primary care data for 55 959 patients aged 45 and over with a new diagnosis of heart failure and 278 679 age and sex matched controls in the Clinical Practice Research Datalink from 1 January 2000 to 31 December 2017 and linked to inpatient Hospital Episode Statistics and Office for National Statistics mortality data. Main outcome measures Survival rates at one, five, and 10 years and cause…

• WT
  Wellcome Trust

  Awards: 203921/Z/16/Z, 203921
• NI
  National Institute for Health and Care Research
• DO
  Department of Health and Social Care
• UO
  University of Oxford
• OU
  Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
• OH
  Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
• NS
  NIHR School for Primary Care Research