Afro-Caribbean Heart Failure in the United Kingdom: Cause, Outcomes, and ATTR V122I Cardiac Amyloidosis.

Background: It has been reported that subjects of African descent present with heart failure at a younger age and because of different causes than whites. We present contemporary data from UK Afro-Caribbean patients in London.

Methods And Results: All patients with heart failure presenting to St George's Hospital Heart Failure clinic between 2005 and 2012 were included (n=1392).