Increased comorbidities in heart failure patients ≥ 85 years but declined from > 90 years: Data from the Swedish Heart Failure Registry

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 167, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 2747-2752

  Holmström, Alexandra ^a   Sigurjonsdottir, Runa ^a   Edner, Magnus ^b   Jonsson, Åsa ^c   Dahlström, Ulf ^d   Fu, Michael L X ^a  

^a SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c RYHOV COUNTY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Comorbidity; Elderly; Epidemiology; Heart failure; Registry

Indexed keywords

BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE;

AGED; AGING; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMORBIDITY; DATA BASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE REGISTRY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; KIDNEY FAILURE; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ACE INHIBITORS; ACEI; B-TYPE NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; BB; BETA BLOCKERS; BNP; COMORBIDITY; EGFR; ELDERLY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ESTIMATED GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HEART FAILURE; HEART FAILURE WITH NORMAL LEFT VENTRICULAR EJECTION FRACTION; HF; HFNEF; LEFT VENTRICULAR EJECTION FRACTION; LVEF; N-TERMINAL PRO B-TYPE NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; NT-PROBNP; REGISTRY; S-HFR; SHF; SWEDISH NATIONAL HEART FAILURE REGISTRY; SYSTOLIC HEART FAILURE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; COMORBIDITY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGISTRIES; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SWEDEN;

EID: 84883798785     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: 18741754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2012.06.095     Document Type: Article

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