Table 1_Clinical and epidemiological characterization of heart failure patients in a high-

From January 2021 to December 2023, this dataset contains anonymized medical records for 122 patients diagnosed with heart failure at a tertiary hospital in Quito, Ecuador, located at approximately 2,800 meters. It was created by Vladimir Ullauri and provides demographic, clinical, and outcome variables. The study includes exploratory univariate analyses comparing patients by discharge survival status.

Use Cases

• Analyze demographic patterns of heart failure patients based on age and gender distribution mentioned in the results.
• Investigate associations between comorbidities like hypertension and atrial fibrillation and patient outcomes based on the described variables.
• Identify exploratory factors linked to in-hospital mortality based on the univariate analyses described for dialysis dependency and immunologic diseases.
• Characterize the clinical profile of heart failure in a high-altitude setting based on the described patient cohort and hospital location.

Strengths

• Contains data on 122 patients diagnosed with heart failure.
• Includes a specific time range from January 2021 to December 2023.
• Provides concrete prevalence statistics for comorbidities like hypertension (59.8%) and atrial fibrillation (44.3%).
• Reports a low in-hospital mortality rate (3.3%) for the cohort.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The description notes a substantial proportion of records lacked documented etiology for heart failure.
• The dataset is very small at 17.5 KB, indicating limited scope.

Provenance

Source

Retrospective medical records from the Metropolitan Hospital of Quito, Ecuador.

Collection Method

Data extracted from anonymized medical records using ICD-10 codes I500, I501, I509.

Time Range

January 2021 to December 2023

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-21 05:34:30; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Quito, Ecuador (high-altitude setting at approximately 2,800 meters)