Heart failure cohort in Singapore with defined criteria: Clinical characteristics and prognosis in a multi-ethnic hospital-based cohort in Singapore

Singapore Medical Journal

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 408-414

  Goh, P P ^a   Chang, B C ^a   Lingamanaicker, J ^a   Leong, Kui Toh Gerard ^a  

^a CHANGI GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Framingham criteria for heart failure; Heart failure; Hypertension; Ischaemic cardiomyopathy; Trans thoracic echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; CREATININE;

ADULT; AGED; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIABETES MELLITUS; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SINGAPORE; SYMPTOM; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART STROKE VOLUME; MIDDLE AGED; SURVIVAL RATE;

AGED; COHORT STUDIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; SINGAPORE; STROKE VOLUME; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 34249712027     PISSN: 00375675     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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