The Intermountain Risk Score (including the red cell distribution width) predicts heart failure and other morbidity endpoints

European Journal of Heart Failure

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1203-1213

  Horne, Benjamin D ^a,b   May, Heidi T ^a   Kfoury, Abdallah G ^a   Renlund, Dale G ^a,b   Muhlestein, Joseph B ^a,b   Lappé, Donald L ^a,b   Rasmusson, Kismet D ^a   Bunch, T Jared ^a,c   Carlquist, John F ^a,b   Bair, Tami L ^a   Jensen, Kurt R ^a   Ronnow, Brianna S ^a   Anderson, Jeffrey L ^a,b  

^a INTERMOUNTAIN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; Coronary disease; Heart failure; Myocardial infarction; Risk score

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; INTERMOUNTAIN RISK SCORE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CORONARY DISEASE; ERYTHROCYTE INDICES; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STROKE VOLUME; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 77958520342     PISSN: 13889842     EISSN: 18790844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurjhf/hfq115     Document Type: Article

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