Prevalência de insuficiência cardíaca e associação com saúde autorreferida no Brasil

Heart failure (HF) is a global health challenge. Self-rated health (SRH) is a predictor of morbidity and mortality and to analysis is categorized into good self-rated health (SRH G) and poor (SRH P). Objective: To estimate the prevalence of HF and association with SRH in Brazil. Methods: This study that used data from the National Health Survey (NHS) held in 2013, with valid data to 59,655 adults (≥ 18 years). The prevalence of HF related to sociodemographics, health perception (SRH, perceptions of physical and mental health), diagnosis of depression and exercising. Poisson regression with robust variance was used. Results: The diagnosis of HF was referenced by 1.1% of respondents. It was observed that having the medical diagnosis of HF increases by four times the chance of having worse perception of health (OR = 4.17; 95% CI 3.65-4.76), however this measure reduces to less than half, when adjusted for age and perception of physical health (OR = 1.78; 95% CI 1.52-2.08). Conclusion: The prevalence of HF represented 1.7 million individuals with this disease in the brazilian population. The close association between HF and SRH precarious showed increased 78% chance of the individual who have HF report SRH precarious.