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Background: The higher risk of heart failure (HF) in African-American and Hispanic women compared with white women is related to the higher burden of risk factors (RFs) in minorities. However, it is unclear if there are differences in the association between the number of RFs for HF and the risk of development of HF and death within racial/ethnic groups.

Methods And Results: In the WHI (Women's Health Initiative; 1993-2010), African-American (n=11 996), white (n=18 479), and Hispanic (n=5096) women with 1, 2, or 3+ baseline RFs were compared with women with 0 RF within their respective racial/ethnic groups to assess risk of developing HF or all-cause mortality before and after HF, using survival analyses.

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Background: Lifetime risk of heart failure has been estimated to range from 20% to 46% in diverse sex and race groups. However, lifetime risk estimates for the 2 HF phenotypes, HF with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) and HF with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF), are not known.

Methods: Participant-level data from 2 large prospective cohort studies, the CHS (Cardiovascular Health Study) and MESA (Multiethnic Study of Atherosclerosis), were pooled, excluding individuals with prevalent HF at baseline.

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Risk Factors for Incident Hospitalized Heart Failure With Preserved Versus Reduced Ejection Fraction in a Multiracial Cohort of Postmenopausal Women.

Circ Heart Fail

October 2016

From the Center of Primary Care and Prevention, Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island, Pawtucket (C.B.E., A.Q.); School of Public Health, Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Providence, RI (C.B.E., S.L.); Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA (M.P.); Women's Health Initiative Branch, Division of Cardiovascular Sciences, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, MD (J.R.); George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC (L.W.M.); Division of Epidemiology, College of Public Health, The Ohio State University Columbus (R.F.); The University of Arizona Cancer Center, Phoenix, AZ (N.S.W.); Providence VA Medical Center, RI (W.-C.H.W.); Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (J.E.M.); HealthPartners Institute for Research and Education, Minneapolis, MN (K.M.); University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN (K.C.J.); University of California San Diego (M.A.); The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (G.C.-S., W.R.); The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus (K.B.); The Ohio State University Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute, Columbus (K.B.); and University of California San Francisco (L.K.).

Background: Heart failure is an important and growing public health problem in women. Risk factors for incident hospitalized heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) compared with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) in women and differences by race/ethnicity are not well characterized.

Methods And Results: We prospectively evaluated the risk factors for incident hospitalized HFpEF and HFrEF in a multiracial cohort of 42 170 postmenopausal women followed up for a mean of 13.

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