Titre : | Country of birth and risk of hospitalization due to heart failure : a Swedish population-based cohort study. (2011) |
Auteurs : | Yan BORNE ; Gunnar ENGSTROM ; ESSEN (Birgitta) : SWE. Department of Women's and Children's Health. International Maternal and Child Health (Imch). Uppsala University. Uppsala. ; B.O. HEDBLAD ; SUNDQUIST (Jan) : SWE. Center for Primary Health Care Research. Skane University Hospital. Lund University. Crc. Malmö. ; Department of Clinical Sciences. Cardiovascular Epidemiology. Skane University Hospital. Malmö. SWE |
Type de document : | Article |
Dans : | European journal of epidemiology (vol. 26, n° 4, 2011) |
Pagination : | 275-283 |
Langues: | Anglais |
Mots-clés : | Insuffisance cardiaque ; Migrant ; Pays ; Naissance ; Lieu naissance ; Facteur risque ; Risque ; Hospitalisation ; Homme ; Suède ; Epidémiologie ; Population ; Immigration ; Europe ; Cardiopathie |
Résumé : | [BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS oFq8R0xk. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. To explore the relation between country of birth and risk of hospitalization due to heart failure (HF). All 40-89 year-old inhabitants in the city of Malmö, Sweden (n=114,917, of whom 15.2% were born outside Sweden) were followed from November 1st, 1990 until December 31st, 2007. During a mean follow-up of 13.5+/-5.3 years, a total of 7,640 individuals (47.4% men) were discharged from hospital with first-ever HF as primary diagnosis. Of them, 1,243 individuals had myocardial infarction (MI) before or concurrent with the HF hospitalization. The risk of HF was compared between immigrants from selected countries and Swedish natives. The overall analysis showed substantial differences among immigrant groups (P |