Race and the Natural History of Chronic Heart Failure: A Propensity-Matched Study

Journal of Cardiac Failure

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 373-378

  Gambassi, Giovanni ^a   Agha, Syed Abbas ^b   Sui, Xuemei ^c   Yancy, Clyde W ^d   Butler, Javed ^b   Giamouzis, Grigorios ^b,e   Love, Thomas E ^f   Ahmed, Ali ^g,h  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^d BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e ONASSIS CARDIAC SURGERY CENTER   (Greece)

^f CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^h BIRMINGHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Heart failure; natural history; propensity scores; race

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RACE DIFFERENCE;

AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; STROKE VOLUME;

EID: 44349159658     PISSN: 10719164     EISSN: 15328414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cardfail.2008.02.004     Document Type: Article

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