Due to the aging of the population, the rapid population growth and the improvement of cardiovascular disease diagnosis and treatment technology, the social burden of HF will continue to rise.At the same time, the diagnosis and treatment of HF will also face increasingly severe challenges.Since the epidemiological characteristics, etiology, management and outcome of CHF vary from country to country, region, and ethnicity [5], it is necessary to develop a targeted, regionally-specific CHF standardized management system that is important to reduce the occurrence, development and prognosis of CHF Meaning.In order to create an evidence-based, life-saving and cost-saving inpatient CHF diagnosis and treatment system in Xinjiang to provide evidence-based medical evidence, we researched and investigated the demographic data, clinical characteristics and management of inpatient CHF patients in Xinjiang.
Our research found that there are more men (62.2%) of CHF patients hospitalized in Xinjiang, which is similar to the proportion of men in the registration study of China-HF [7].Therefore, early intervention of risk factors such as smoking, drinking, and complications such as coronary heart disease, hypertension, and obesity in the male population may be of great significance to the prevention and treatment of CHF [8].The median hospital stay of CHF patients in this study is 8 days, which is shorter than that of studies such as China-HF [7] and China PEACE [9], which may be related to the improvement of the efficiency of heart failure treatment under the new treatment model of CHF.
Coronary atherosclerotic heart disease (65.57%) is the leading cause of CHF hospitalization in Xinjiang.This may be related to the heavy burden of coronary heart disease risk factors such as smoking, high-fat diet, obesity, diabetes, and hypertension, which are consistent with the results of studies in Western countries [10-12].However, according to China-HF[7] research report, hypertension is the main reason for CHF in hospitals in my country.The reason for this difference may be that Xinjiang is a region where many ethnic groups gather.People of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang mainly eat dairy products such as beef, mutton, milk tea, and pasta. The source of animal protein in the diet is single, and the saturated fatty acid and cholesterol content of animal fat is relatively high, and the long-term high salt content is high. Fatty eating habits and lack of understanding of the disease have caused the ethnic minorities in Xinjiang to not pay enough attention to the control of risk factors for coronary heart disease such as hyperlipidemia, hyperglycemia, and hypertension.It is worth noting that the second leading cause of heart failure patients in Xinjiang is dilated cardiomyopathy (11.05%), followed by hypertension (9.01%), which is consistent with Arab countries in the Middle East [13], and is different from Western countries, even with The survey of HF patients in Xinjiang published by Jiang Hua et al. [14] in 2015 is different.The reason may be related to the increasing economic development in Xinjiang, the improvement of people's health awareness, the comprehensive popularization of national medical examinations, and the implementation of early detection, early diagnosis, and early intervention of the diagnosis and treatment system for hypertension.We included mainly CHF patients with HFrEF (43.10%) and 729 patients (45.45%) with heart function grade III.This may be related to factors such as the fact that CHF patients in Xinjiang did not see a doctor until their cardiac function was significantly reduced, the proportion of hospitalized HFrEF patients in provincial-level tertiary hospitals was relatively high, and the strict implementation of the CHF graded diagnosis and treatment system.
The ratio of HFrEF and HFpEF in our study is close, which is consistent with the results of China-HF [7].In our study, we found that the proportion of smoking and drinking in HFrEF patients is the highest.The causes of FFrEF patients are: coronary atherosclerotic heart disease, dilated cardiomyopathy, hypertension and valvular heart disease.The long-term registration of heart failure by the European Society of Cardiology is a prospective observational study result suggesting [15] that patients with HFrEF are younger, more commonly male, and more likely to have ischemic causes, consistent with our findings.HFpEF refers to a type of HF with normal or near normal cardiac ejection fraction, but with clinical manifestations of HF symptoms or signs.The term HFpEF has undergone several evolutions, from initially diastolic dysfunction HF to normal systolic functional HF, and finally defined by the European Society of Cardiology in 2016 as the current ejection fraction reserved HF.Age is an independent risk factor for HFpEF, and the incidence of HFpEF increases with age higher than HFrEF [16].The average age of HFpEF patients is 70 years old, and men and obese patients may be diagnosed with HFpEF earlier [17,18].Relevant studies have shown that female patients are more likely to have HFpEF, which may be related to the increased life expectancy of women than men, and the increased burden of HF risk factors such as hypertension and diabetes in elderly women [19,20].Our research results suggest that the average age of HFpEF patients is older, the proportion of women is high, the systolic blood pressure is high, the diastolic blood pressure is low, the proportion of coronary artery revascularization is high, and the patients with diabetes, anemia, stroke/transient ischemic attack and chronic obstruction The proportion of comorbidities such as sexual lung disease is the highest. Consistent with the above research results.
The treatment of CHF has undergone a major shift since the 1990s: it has shifted from the aim of improving short-term hemodynamics to a long-term repair strategy to change the biological properties of the failing heart.Since 2017, the drug treatment of CHF has developed spontaneously, ranging from angiotensin receptor enkephalinase inhibitors [21] to sodium glucose transporter 2 [22], and then to veliciae [23]. It is not a new "star" drug in the field of CHF treatment.Our research found that the HF standardized drugs for HFrEF patients in Xinjiang: renin-angiotensin system inhibitors, β-receptor blockers and aldosterone receptor antagonists were 91.19%, 91.15 and 90.96%, respectively.Compared with the proportion of standardized drugs used in Xinjiang HF patients reported by Jiang Hua et al. [14] five years ago, it has been significantly increased.It is suggested that the drug treatment of HFrEF patients in Xinjiang is gradually moving towards a more standardized, standardized and optimized development path.Surprisingly, the proportion of drugs used in the “Golden Triangle” of HFrEF patients in Xinjiang is higher than that of China-HF[7], China PEACE[9], and Asian CHAMP-HF[24]. This is inseparable from the cardiovascular system of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang. Physicians continue to study and study the CHF guidelines.The use rates of renin-angiotensin system inhibitors were 91.6% and 90.8% in patients with HFrEF hospitalized in provincial and municipal top-level hospitals, and the use rates of β-blockers were 91.6% and 90.8%, respectively.The medication rates of aldosterone receptor antagonists were 89.5% and 91.9%, although there was no statistically significant difference, but the proportion of pacing intervention (CRT-D/CRT-P/ICD) and coronary intervention or bypass treatment in the three provincial hospitals Higher than municipal tertiary hospitals,This reminds that the basic understanding of the guidelines for the treatment of CHF in the provincial tertiary hospitals and municipal tertiary hospitals in Xinjiang is basically the same, but the municipal tertiary hospitals are limited by the conditions of the hospital and the level of doctors, and the latest treatment plan for CHF and the latest equipment treatment technology Awareness and practical ability needs to be improved.At the same time, studies have found that doctors in various regions of China have obviously insufficient mastery of the basic knowledge of HF. The degree of mastery of the CHF guidelines may be related to the doctor's qualifications, hospital level, practice scope and other factors[25], and the provincial tertiary hospitals have a high degree of education. , Senior seniority, and a team of cardiovascular specialists, so CHF’s latest drugs and latest device treatment technologies may be easier to popularize.
In our study, the in-hospital mortality rate of CHF patients is 1.00%, which is low in China-HF[7]. It may be related to factors such as end-stage CHF patients not being able to come to the hospital for treatment, giving up treatment at the end of life, and requiring automatic discharge from the hospital.In our study, the regular follow-up rates of CHF patients 1 week, January, March and December were 81.96%, 81.77%, 80.06% and 56.07%, respectively.The 12-month follow-up rate after discharge has dropped significantly, and the out-of-hospital follow-up management system for CHF patients needs to be improved.A total of 512 CHF patients died within 12 months of discharge (6.8%). The low out-of-hospital mortality rate may be related to factors such as more dead patients among the lost to follow-up and low follow-up rate. The standardized follow-up system needs to be improved to accurately evaluate Xinjiang Standardized mortality of CHF patients in the region.
This study has certain limitations. Although the headquarters of the Heart Failure Center has requested the hospital to continuously enroll CHF patients, the reporting doctor may choose some patients with more standardized medications for reporting, so a certain selection bias has occurred.In addition, this study only analyzed the standardized drug use rate of CHF patients, but did not analyze whether the drug has reached the target dose.The success rate of follow-up in this study was low, especially the 1-year follow-up rate was only 56.07%. Therefore, the reliability of prognostic data is low.
In summary, the main cause of chronic CHF in Xinjiang is coronary heart disease, which is different from previous domestic and foreign studies.Early intervention on the risk factors of coronary heart disease may have a certain significance for the occurrence and development of CHF in Xinjiang.There is a certain gap between CHF treatment practice in Xinjiang and the treatment recommended by the guidelines, including the availability of diagnostic tests, and the incomplete popularization of the latest treatment drugs and device technologies.Provincial-level tertiary hospitals should give full play to their advantages and take up the task of training, guiding and radiating the surrounding grassroots hospitals at all levels.Primary hospitals should actively implement the CHF graded diagnosis and treatment and two-way referral model, implement standardized diagnosis and treatment and long-term patient follow-up management based on HF guidelines, improve the overall diagnosis and treatment of heart failure, and establish and improve the standardized, individualized, and standardized diagnosis and treatment of CHF in Xinjiang. system.