The largest cohort study opens a new era for the management of heart failure in Japan

Circulation Journal

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 775-776

  Asanuma, Hiroshi ^a   Kitakaze, Masafumi ^b  

^a KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE;

CLINICAL RESEARCH; COHORT ANALYSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; HEART FAILURE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; JAPAN; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SYNDROME;

EID: 79953661230     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.CJ-11-0235     Document Type: Editorial

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