Editorial: Red cell distribution width in chronic heart failure: A new independent marker for prognosis?

European Journal of Heart Failure

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 213-214

  Hammarsten, Ola ^a   Jacobsson, Stefan ^a   Fu, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO TERMINAL PRO BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; NEUROHORMONE; PEPTIDE FRAGMENT; PRO BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE (1 76); PRO-BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE (1-76);

ALCOHOL ABUSE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDITORIAL; ERYTHROCYTE; ERYTHROCYTE VOLUME; HEART FAILURE; HEMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; KIDNEY DISEASE; LIVER DISEASE; MORTALITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RED CELL DISTRIBUTION WIDTH; THROMBOSIS; ANEMIA; BLOOD; CYTOLOGY; NOTE; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING;

ANEMIA; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; ERYTHROCYTES; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE, BRAIN; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 77249168171     PISSN: 13889842     EISSN: 18790844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurjhf/hfp208     Document Type: Editorial

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