title: [Gender-specific features of chronic heart failure].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To estimate the prevalence of chronic heart failure (CHF) in Azerbajan and analyse its gender-specific features in hospital patients based on retrospective observations.
  
  
  METHODS
  Retrospective analysis included 3614 case histories of the patients admitted to D.M.Abdullaev Research Institute of Cardiology.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Overall prevalence of CHF was estimated at 51.4%, lethality at 6%. The main causative factors of CHF were coronary heart disease and arterial hypertension. Marked differences in CHF etiology between men and women of different age were revealed. The prevalence of CHF in men was 56.8% or 1.3 times that in women. 41% of the patients with CHF were above 60 years of age. CHF with left ventricular ejection fraction of less than 45% and with the preserved one was found in 84% and 16% of the patients respectively. The number of women with this variant of CHF amounted to 22% and was 2 times that of men.
authors.forename: G M
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Dadashova
mesh_terms: D001382:Azerbaijan / Q000453:epidemiology; D002908:Chronic Disease / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012737:Sex Factors