Relationship between sex, ejection fraction, and B-type natriuretic peptide levels in patients hospitalized with heart failure and associations with inhospital outcomes: Findings from the Get with the Guideline-Heart Failure Registry

American Heart Journal

Volumn 166, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Hsich, Eileen M ^a   Grau Sepulveda, Maria V ^b   Hernandez, Adrian F ^b   Eapen, Zubin J ^b   Xian, Ying ^b   Schwamm, Lee H ^c   Bhatt, Deepak L ^d   Fonarow, Gregg C ^e  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b DUKE CLINICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SEX DIFFERENCE; BLOOD; COHORT ANALYSIS; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; REGISTER; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE, BRAIN; ODDS RATIO; PROGNOSIS; REGISTRIES; SEX FACTORS; STROKE VOLUME;

EID: 84888642017     PISSN: 00028703     EISSN: 10976744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ahj.2013.08.029     Document Type: Article

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