Effects of cardiac resynchronization therapy on health-related quality of life in older adults with heart failure

Clinical Interventions in Aging

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 553-560

  Hoth, Karin F ^a,b,e   Nash, Justin ^c   Poppas, Athena ^c   Ellison, Kristin E ^c   Paul, Robert H ^d   Cohen, Ronald A ^c  

^a NATIONAL JEWISH MEDICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^e NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac resynchronization therapy; Heart failure; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

6 MINUTE WALK DISTANCE TEST; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EMOTION; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE CONTRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC VOLUME; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; PACEMAKER; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PHYSICAL FUNCTION; QRS COMPLEX; QUALITY OF LIFE; SHORT FORM 36; SOCIAL ASPECT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VITALITY SCORE; WALKING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 54949118307     PISSN: 11769092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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