Blood urea nitrogen/creatinine ratio identifies a high-risk but potentially reversible form of renal dysfunction in patients with decompensated heart failure

Circulation: Heart Failure

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 233-239

  Brisco, Meredith A ^a,b   Coca, Steven G ^c,d   Chen, Jennifer ^e   Owens, Anjali Tiku ^a   McCauley, Brian D ^a   Kimmel, Stephen E ^a,b   Testani, Jeffrey M ^c,d  

^a Cardiovascular Division   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiorenal syndrome; Heart failure; Mortality

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HEART FAILURE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; KIDNEY FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; AGED; BLOOD; CARDIORENAL SYNDROME; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; KIDNEY; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; UPREGULATION; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD UREA NITROGEN; CARDIO-RENAL SYNDROME; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CREATININE; FEMALE; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; KIDNEY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT ADMISSION; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; UP-REGULATION;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84877300464     PISSN: 19413289     EISSN: 19413297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.112.968230     Document Type: Article

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