Trends in survival of Swedish men and women with heart failure from 1987 to 2014: a population‐based case–control study

To compare trends in short-term and long-term survival of patients with heart failure (HF) compared with controls from the general population.We used data from the Swedish National Inpatient Registry to identify all patients aged ≥18 years with a first recorded diagnosis of HF between 1 January 1987 and 31 December 2014 and compared them with controls matched on age and sex from the Total Population Register. We included 702 485 patients with HF...