Table 1.

Clinical risk factors for HF

Clinical risk factors	Increase in risk of post‐MI HF
Age, increase by 10 years	20–50%
Female sex	15–34%
History of previous MI	21–89%
Hypertension	7–70%
Diabetes	30–42%
Glomerular filtration, decrease by 10 mL/min/1.73 m2	10%
Heart rate, increase by 10 b.p.m.	7–23%
Atrial fibrillation	20–51%

HF, heart failure; MI, myocardial infarction.