The reported prevalence of alcoholic cardiomyopathy among series of patients with heart failure (HF) or dilated cardiomyopathy has varied widely (eg, from 4 to 40 percent or more), depending upon the characteristics of the study population and the threshold alcohol consumption used to identify alcoholic cardiomyopathy [3].
The prevalence of alcoholic cardiomyopathy appears to be similar among alcoholic men and women, however, there is a higher disease burden in men, with a series recording the gender ratio of hospital admission with the condition at almost 9:1 [4]. The main age group affected is from 45 to 59 years old, followed by 60 to 74 years old.