Comparative heart failure profile over a 3-year period in a romanian general hospital

Clinical Interventions in Aging

Volumn 8, Issue , 2013, Pages 999-1005

  Pop, Dana ^a   Penciu, Oana Maria ^a   Sitar Taut, Adela Viviana ^b   Zdrenghea, Dumitru Tudor ^a  

^a IULIU HATIEGANU UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY   (Romania)

^b BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

Author keywords

Heart failure; Lvef; Profile; Progress

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATHOGENESIS; PROBABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ROMANIA; SEX DIFFERENCE; TREND STUDY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEX RATIO;

AGED; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITALS, GENERAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROMANIA; SEX DISTRIBUTION; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84881051877     PISSN: 11769092     EISSN: 11781998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/CIA.S46760     Document Type: Article

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