Risk factors of heart failure among patients with hypertension

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Background: Hypertension is the leading cause of heart failure globally. Preventive public health approach to
reducing the scourge of heart failure in patients with hypertension must seek to understand the risk factors and
determinants of heart failure in at risk populations. This will improve cardiovascular preventive care and aid the
prognostic stratification of patients with systemic hypertension.
Purpose: The aim of this study was to determine the risk factors of heart failure (HF) among patients with
hypertension attending a tertiary hospital.
Methods: The study was a case control study. The cases were patients with HF secondary to hypertension
while the controls were age and sex­matched patients with hypertension without HF.
The patients were interviewed following which they were examined and evaluated clinically for cardiometabolic
and lifestyle risk factors. Medication adherence was assessed using the Medication Adherence Questionnaire
(MAQ). Subjects underweight cardio­metabolic risk profiling. Conditional logistic regression remodeling was
used to determine the risk factors of heart failure in the study population. A two­sided p­value of <0.05 was
considered statistically significant in all analyses.