Red blood cell distribution width predicts long-term outcome regardless of anaemia status in acute heart failure patients

European Journal of Heart Failure

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 840-846

  Pascual Figal, Domingo A ^a   Bonaque, Juan C ^a   Redondo, Belen ^a   Caro, Cesar ^a   Manzano Fernandez, Sergio ^a   Sánchez Mas, Jesús ^a   Garrido, Iris P ^a   Valdes, Mariano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Acute heart failure; Anaemia; Prognosis; Red cell

Indexed keywords

ALDOSTERONE ANTAGONIST; ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIGOXIN; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; HEMOGLOBIN; LOOP DIURETIC AGENT;

ACUTE HEART FAILURE; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; ACUTE DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; ECHOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE; HEALTH STATUS; HEART FAILURE; HEART RATE; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANEMIA; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEART FAILURE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 69249111749     PISSN: 13889842     EISSN: 18790844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurjhf/hfp109     Document Type: Article

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