Cardiac function stratification based on echocardiographic or clinical markers of left ventricular filling pressures predicts death and hospitalization better than stratification by ventricular systolic function alone

Echocardiography

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 169-181

  Ogunyankin, Kofo O ^a,c   Day, Andrew G ^a   Lonn, Eva ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical risk; Diastolic dysfunction; Left ventricular ejection fraction grades; Left ventricular function; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DISEASE MARKER; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENDER; HAZARD RATIO; HEART DEATH; HEART FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FILLING PRESSURE; HEART MUSCLE RELAXATION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYSTOLE; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DIASTOLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SYSTOLE; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 38849100424     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2007.00578.x     Document Type: Article

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