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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Oct 6.
Published in final edited form as: Circulation. 2015 Aug 27;132(14):1347–1353. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.115.014281

Table 3.

Cumulative number of medications patients were to initiate based on heart failure measures, overall and by left ventricular ejection fraction

Number of Medications Patient Eligible to Initiate All Patients* LVEF <40% or moderate to severe dysfunction LVEF >=40% or normal to mild dysfunction

Number of Patients Percent of All Patients Number of Patients Percent of Patients Number of Patients Percent of Patients
5 566 0.4% 566 0.8%
4 6,496 4.1% 6,496 9.4%
3 14,863 9.4% 14,863 21.5%
2 16,067 10.1% 16,067 23.3%
1 36,104 22.7% 18,884 27.4% 16,691 19.3%
0 84,826 53.3% 12,157 17.6% 69,761 80.7%
*

All patients include the 2% of the cohort with missing LVEF/systolic function.