Influence of gender on long-term prognosis of patients with chronic heart failure seen in heart failure clinics

Clinical Cardiology

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Jiménez Navarro, Manuel F ^a   Ramirez Marrero, Miguel A ^a   Anguita Sánchez, Manuel ^b   Castillo, Juan Carlos ^b  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DE LA VICTORIA   (Spain)

^b Hospital Reina Sofía de Córdoba   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM ANTAGONIST; CARVEDILOL; DIGOXIN; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; ENALAPRIL; FUROSEMIDE; SPIRONOLACTONE; VASODILATOR AGENT;

AGED; ANTICOAGULATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; GENDER; HEART FAILURE; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL;

ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; AGED; CARDIAC CARE FACILITIES; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT READMISSION; PLATELET AGGREGATION INHIBITORS; PROGNOSIS; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SPAIN; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 77949667295     PISSN: 01609289     EISSN: 19328737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clc.20476     Document Type: Article

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