Table 2.

HF diagnostic categories of 81 patients (26%) with cardiologist echocardiogram; n (%)

Diagnostic category	Total	Women	Men
Cardiomyopathy	35 (43)	18 (36)	17 (55)
Peripartum cardiomyopathy	17 (21)	17 (34)	–
Right HF	10 (12)	4 (8)	6 (19)
Hypertensive heart disease	6 (7)	4 (8)	2 (6)
Rheumatic heart disease	4 (5)	3 (6)	1 (3)
Pericardial disease	2 (2)	1 (2)	1 (3)
Congenital heart disease	1 (1)	0 (0)	1 (3)
Other*	3 (4)	2 (4)	1 (3)
Normal—not HF	3 (4)	1 (2)	2 (6)
Total	81	50 (62)	31 (38)

^*Other=Endocarditis (1), ischaemic cardiomyopathy (1), possible infiltrative cardiomyopathy (1).

HF, heart failure.