Table 2 Causes of death of patients during follow-up after hospital admission for heart failure in the Netherlands.
From: Age- and gender-specific risk of death after first hospitalization for heart failure
28 days | 1-year | 5-years | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cause of death | Men (n = 2,644) | Women (n = 2,661) | Men (n = 5,455) | Women (n = 5,273) | Men (n = 9,677) | Women (n = 9,558) |
Co-morbidities (%) | ||||||
Cardiovascular diseases | 65.2 | 70.2 | 62.8 | 65.9 | 59.2 | 60.6 |
- ischemic heart disease | 29.9 | 24.8 | 28.2 | 22.3 | 26.3 | 20.0 |
- AMI | 16.6 | 14.9 | 14.5 | 13.0 | 13.1 | 11.1 |
- congestive heart failure | 17.0 | 21.4 | 14.7 | 18.0 | 12.6 | 15.7 |
- stroke | 2.3 | 3.2 | 3.0 | 4.3 | 3.7 | 5.3 |
- peripheral arterial diseases | 1.9 | 1.2 | 2.7 | 1.9 | 3.2 | 2.2 |
- other cardiovascular diseases | 14.1 | 19.6 | 14.1 | 19.3 | 13.5 | 17.7 |
Cancer | 7.4 | 4.8 | 9.8 | 6.7 | 11.2 | 7.5 |
- lung cancer | 2.2 | 0.6 | 3.3 | 0.7 | 3.6 | 0.8 |
Diseases of respiratory system | 14.8 | 10.5 | 13.1 | 9.2 | 13.0 | 10.0 |
- COPD | 7.3 | 4.6 | 6.9 | 4.3 | 6.6 | 4.4 |
Complications from DM | 2.5 | 3.6 | 3.2 | 4.8 | 3.8 | 5.5 |