Socioeconomic factors in the prognosis of heart failure in a Brazilian cohort.

A large body of evidence supports the concept that socioeconomic factors may influence the prognosis of cardiovascular diseases. We studied the influence of socioeconomic factors in the prognosis of heart failure in 494 patients consecutively admitted to the hospital due to worsening of symptoms of heart failure in São Paulo, Brazil. The ages ranged between 15 and 90 (mean 57.