Improving outcomes in congestive heart failure: Val-HeFT

Cardiology

Volumn 91, Issue SUPPL. 1, 1999, Pages 19-22

  Cohn, Jay N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

AT1 receptor blocker; Mortality; Quality of life; Val HeFT

Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CANDESARTAN; CAPTOPRIL; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; INOTROPIC AGENT; LOSARTAN; VALSARTAN;

CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DISEASE COURSE; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE;

ANGIOTENSIN II; ANGIOTENSIN-CONVERTING ENZYME INHIBITORS; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; CLINICAL TRIALS; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; QUALITY OF LIFE; TETRAZOLES; VALINE;

EID: 0032772220     PISSN: 00086312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000047284     Document Type: Conference Paper

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