Table 1.
Rates per 1000 population for incidence, prevalence, and contacts of patients with heart failure in primary care, stratified by socioeconomic status
|
Prevalence
|
Incidence
|
Contacts
|
Annual contacts per patient
|
Estimated mean survival (years)*
|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deprivation category | Sample size | Crude | Adjusted | Crude | Adjusted | Crude | Adjusted | ||
| 1 (most affluent) | 70961 | 6.3 | 6.4 | 1.8 | 1.8 | 16.8 | 17.1 | 2.6 | 3.5 |
| 2 | 66633 | 7.5 | 7.4 | 1.7 | 1.6 | 20.0 | 19.6 | 2.7 | 4.4 |
| 3 | 93258 | 7.3 | 7.5 | 1.9 | 1.9 | 17.5 | 19.6 | 2.4 | 3.8 |
| 4 | 34627 | 7.3 | 7.5 | 2.6 | 2.7 | 16.6 | 17.9 | 2.3 | 2.8 |
| 5 (most deprived) | 28633 | 6.7 | 7.2 | 2.4 | 2.6 | 13.4 | 14.3 | 2.0 | 2.8 |
| Odds ratio between categories 5 and 1 | 1.06 | 1.13 | 1.33 | 1.44 | 0.80 | 0.84 | 0.77 | 0.80 | |
| P for trend | 0.27 | 0.06 | 0.002 | 0.0003 | <0.001 | 0.07 | <0.001 | <0.001 | |
Adjusted rates are age and sex standardised to distribution found in entire continuous morbidity recording practice population.
*
Crude prevalence divided by crude incidence.