The Silesian Cardiovascular Database is an prospective observational study patients who were hospitalized in the Silesian region in Poland due to cardiovascular diseases from 1st January 2006.

The aim of the study is to collect and analyze all epidemiological data, diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, in-hospital and long-term prognosis, hospitalization costs of these patients. Likewise, data have been collected specialist care outpatient visits and primary health care patients were hospitalized.

For the analysis were included patients hospitalized in the cardiology, cardiac surgery , diabetes, vascular surgery wards and who were hospitalized for cardiac diagnosis in the wards of internal medicine and intensive care.

The Silesian Cardiovascular Database was created based on the agreement between Silesian Centre for Heart Diseases in Zabrze and the Regional Department of National Health Fund in Katowice in order to conduct analyses and prepare scientific elaborations on the group of patients with circulatory system diseases. Data elaboration and preparation for analyses was conducted by the Science Department of Silesian Centre for Heart Diseases and the Department of Biostatistics of Medical University of Silesia.