Triggers of acute heart failure vary globally

Triggers of acute heart failure vary globally, according to results from the REPORT-HF registry and presented at Heart Failure 2018 and the World Congress on Acute Heart Failure. REPORT-HF is a global, prospective registry comparing regional differences in causes of acute heart failure, therapies, time to treatment, and outcomes. Professor Sean Collins, one of the authors of the study and Professor and Vice Chair for Research, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, US, said: €œPrior acute heart failure registries have focused on a single country or region. REPORT-HF is the first to simultaneously enrol patients from across the world using