Objectives: Diastolic heart failure (DHF) and Systolic heart failure (SHF) are two clinical subtypes of the Chronic Heart Failure (CHF) syndrome that is most frequently seen in clinical practise. SHF and DHF are the two most common clinical subgroups of Chronic Heart Failure syndrome. To assess the frequencies of CHF and the systolic dysfunction (SD) and diastolic dysfunction (DD) in the community. To also ascertain whether DD helps in predicting all-cause mortality