Elderly hospitalized patients with diastolic heart failure: Lack of gender and ethnic differences in 18-month mortality rates

Journals of Gerontology - Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 56-59

  Ibrahim, Said A ^a   Burant, Christopher J ^b   Kwoh, C Kent ^a  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATININE;

AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CAUCASIAN; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIASTOLE; DIASTOLIC HEART FAILURE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INSTITUTIONAL CARE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEGRO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX RATIO; SMOKING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STROKE; UNITED STATES;

NICOTIANA TABACUM; PIERINAE;

EID: 0037243204     PISSN: 10795006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gerona/58.1.m56     Document Type: Article

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