Prevalence and aetiology of heart failure in an Arab population

Abstract

The prevalence of symptomatic heart failure was appreciably significant in the population studied, showed a male preponderance and was frequent in people aged > or =45 years. Ischaemic heart disease and hypertension were the commonest aetiologies but idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy was also present in a significant number of patients being relatively more prevalent than reported from the West.