1.0Cardiovascular Journal of Africahttps://cvja.co.za/journalrich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="iyemKiD41o"><a href="https://cvja.co.za/journal/cvja-2025-045/">Right ventricular function, pulmonary hypertension and incident mortality in heart failure: Insights from a West-African cohort</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://cvja.co.za/journal/cvja-2025-045/embed/#?secret=iyemKiD41o" width="600" height="338" title="“Right ventricular function, pulmonary hypertension and incident mortality in heart failure: Insights from a West-African cohort” — Cardiovascular Journal of Africa" data-secret="iyemKiD41o" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript"> /* <![CDATA[ */ /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display="none";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):"link"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute("src")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener("message",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute("data-secret"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+="#?secret="+t,e.setAttribute("data-secret",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:t},"*")},!1)))}(window,document); /* ]]> */ </script> Few studies have assessed the prevalence and independent prognostic relevance of right ventricular dysfunction (RVD) and pulmonary hypertension (PH) in Africans with heart failure (HF) despite the different trajectories of HF in Africans compared to other ethnicities. We investigated the frequency and independent associations of RVD and PH with incident death in Nigerian-Africans with hypertensive HF.