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We aimed to identify HFpEF phenogroups from real-world electronic health records (EHRs), characterise their longitudinal stability and determine whether phenogroup trajectories were associated with differences in mortality.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>A natural language processing (NLP) pipeline identified HFpEF cases from multisite EHRs (2010\u20132022). Latent class analysis (LCA) defined baseline phenogroups and annual supervised random forest (RF) classification using time-updated values of the same baseline LCA variables tracked individual transitions over five years. Competing risks regression quantified transition versus death probabilities. Time-varying Cox models assessed mortality risk associated with current (vs baseline) phenogroup status. Phenogroups were independently re-derived by LCA in an external cohort and compared with RF predictions.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Among 2223 patients (60% female, median age 75 years (IQR 63\u201383); left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) 60.1%; follow-up 4.0 years (IQR 2.2\u20136.1), we identified four phenogroups: young-low comorbidity (22%), obesity-predominant (24%), elderly atrial dysfunction (32%) and cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic (23%). Young-low comorbidity had the highest transition probability (47.7%), while cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic and elderly-atrial dysfunction were highly stable (3.2% and 12.1% transitioned, respectively). Within young-low comorbidity, those who transitioned had greater baseline cardiac abnormalities, including higher E\/e\u2032, left ventricle mass and wall thickness. Adjusted mortality risk was highest in cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic (HR 1.53, 95%\u2009CI 1.22 to 1.92, p&lt;0.001); current phenogroup status discriminated mortality risk modestly better than baseline classification alone (C-index 0.659 vs 0.648). In an independent external cohort (n=3349), RF predictions agreed strongly with independently derived LCA phenogroup labels (C-statistics 0.891\u20130.953).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Longitudinal NLP-based phenotyping of real-world EHRs identified four reproducible HFpEF phenogroups with distinct trajectories, distinguishing an early progressive disease state from stable advanced phenotypes. Earlier HFpEF detection using artificial intelligence-driven EHR tools could facilitate phenotype-targeted treatment of patients at potentially modifiable stages.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1136\/openhrt-2026-004351","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,25]],"date-time":"2026-09-25T13:40:14Z","timestamp":1790343614000},"page":"e004351","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1136\/crossmarkpolicy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Longitudinal phenotyping of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction identifies early- and end-stage disease states"],"prefix":"10.1136","volume":"13","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2173-1251","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Samuel","family":"Brown","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"King\u2019s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK"},{"name":"School of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine & Sciences, British Heart Foundation Centre of 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