National Heart Failure Database Disease registries are an efficient way to collect epidemiological data on etiological and diagnostic characteristics, and therapeutic practice patterns of disease conditions. Findings from the disease registries often help clinicians and policymakers to understand about potential causes, identify associations, facilitate early and accurate diagnosis, assess the uptake of evidence-based guideline recommendations and identify gaps in management. With the larger goal of describing the real-world situation in terms of pattern, treatment practices and clinical outcomes, we are developing a National database of heart failure (HF) patients after compiling data from the already established and ongoing HF registries in India. Our aim is to gather data from over 20,000 HF patients and make them available for research for a wider network of potential researchers. There is no nationally representative data on HF from India. To bridge this gap, we have initiated the national HF registry (NHFR) under ICMR which started recruitment from first of January 2019. NHFR is planning to collect data of 10000 patients, we have already collected data from 9000 patients so far. In addition to the data from the Trivandrum HF registry THFR (n=1205), we also have approached other registries like the Kerala HF registry (n=7500 patients), The Medanta Registry (N=6000) to create a national database for HF. We will approach and request to individual hospitals and other professional organisations to contribute their data to our national database. Our ultimate aim to have a database of 20000 patients with heart failure from different parts of India. X ☰ Featured links Heart and its function Heart Failure Symptoms Living with Heart Failure Patient Education Physicians Area Press Releases Tools Albums Videos