Analysis of etiology and drug use in the chronic systolic heart failure patients in two community health service centers of Pudong district in Shanghai / 中华全科医师杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate the treatment of chronic heart failure in two communities in Pudong and find the deficiency of standardized treatment in community hospital.Methods A retrospective study of all the inpatient,family bed and outpatient with heart failure who visit Hudong and Lujiazui community health Service center was conducted from March 2012 to March 2015 retrospectively.General situation(gender,age,smoking history,drinking history,daily salt intake,concomitant disease),etiology and if have the acute heart failure onset in half a year and what are the incentives,drug treatment and treatment of concomitant hypertension and diabetes mellitus were analyzed by face to face follow up.Results The study included 300 patients,average age was (58 ± 10) years.Daily salt intake of 55.0％ (165/300)patients was more than 9 g.Coronary heart disease (45.7 ％,137/300),hypertension (30.7％,92/300)and cardiomyopathy (9.0％,27/300)were the chief heart failure etiology.59.3％ (178/300) patients had acute heart failure in half a year.Acute blood pressure(20.8％,37/178),transfusion too fast or too much and infection(14.6％,26/178) were the chief incentives leading to acute heart failure.83.3％ (250/300)patients used ACEI/ARB,but only 32.0％ (80/250) of them applied the target dose.53.7％ (161/300)patients used beta blockers and 98.1％ (158/161) of them could not reach the target dose.Tartaric acid metoprolol (51.6％,83/161),peso parlour (18.6％,30/161) and carvedilol (14.9％,24/161) were commonly used drug in clinic.76.6％ (230/300)patients had hypertension and blood pressure was controlled in 82.2％ (189/230) of them successfully.44.0％ (132/300) patients had diabetes mellitus and glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) was controlled from 7 ％ to 8 ％ in 23.5 ％ (31/132) of them.Conclusion In the community treatment of heart failure,the drugs recommended by guidelines were low usage and achieved the target dose rarely.Treatment of concomitant diseases was not good.The knowledge of new progress was not enough.