Yonsei University College of Medicine Reports Findings in Heart Failure (Temporal trends in heart failure over 11 years in the aging Korean population: A retrospective study using the national health insurance database): Heart Disorders and Diseases – Heart Failure

2023 JAN 10 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Information Technology Business Daily -- New research on Heart Disorders and Diseases - Heart Failure is the subject of a report. According to news reporting out of Seoul, South Korea, by NewsRx editors, research stated, “Understanding national trends of heart failure (HF) is crucial for establishing prevention and treatment strategies. We aimed to investigate the 11-year trends of HF in the South Korean population.”

Financial support for this research came from The Gangwon Chapter of the Korean Society of Cardiology.

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from the Yonsei University College of Medicine, “Using the Korean National Health Insurance Service database, we identified 3,446,256 patients with HF between 2004 and 2014. The prevalence of HF was 1.42% in 2004, steadily increasing to 1.98% in 2014. However, the age-adjusted prevalence of HF remained stable (1.43% in 2014). The incidence of HF was 6.1/1000 person-years in 2004 and remained at similar levels, reaching 5.4/1000 person-years in 2014. The age-adjusted incidence of HF slowly decreased to 3.94/1000 person-years in 2014. The event rate for hospitalized patients with HF remained stable increasing from 1.40 in 2004 to 1.87/1000 person-years in 2014, and the age-adjusted event rate of hospitalized HF decreased to 1.22 in 2014. In South Korea, between 2004 and 2014, the prevalence of HF increased while the incidence of HF remained stable. Furthermore, the age-adjusted HF prevalence was stable, and the age-adjusted incidence decreased.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “This indicates that the aging population is the main cause of the increasing national burden associated with HF and that further attention is warranted in the management of HF in older adults.”

For more information on this research see: Temporal trends in heart failure over 11 years in the aging Korean population: A retrospective study using the national health insurance database. PLOS ONE, 2022;17(12). PLOS ONE can be contacted at: Public Library Science, 1160 Battery Street, Ste 100, San Francisco, CA 94111, USA. (Public Library of Science - www.plos.org; PLOS ONE - www.plosone.org)

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Chan Joo Lee, Division of Cardiology, Dept. of Internal Medicine, Severance Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea. Additional authors for this research include Dong-Hyuk Cho, Jung-Woo Son, Jimi Choi, Jinseub Hwang and Byung-Su Yoo.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0279541. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

Publisher contact information for the journal PLOS ONE is: Public Library Science, 1160 Battery Street, Ste 100, San Francisco, CA 94111, USA.

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