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Table 5 Causes of heart failure in population based studies.

Cause Framingham heart study15 Hillingdon heart failure studyw24 Bromley heart failure study16
Men Women
Ischaemic 59 48 36 52
Non‐ischaemic:
 Hypertension 70 78 14 4
 Valvular heart disease 22 31 7 10
 Atrial fibrillation 5 3
 Alcohol 4
 Other 7 7 4 5
 Unknown 34 23

Because of rounding, the percentages do not always add up to 100.

Framingham heart study: ischaemic heart disease and hypertension could be co‐named as causing heart failure.