Prognostic significance of ECG abnormalities for mortality risk in acute heart failure: Insight from the Sub-Saharan Africa survey of heart failure (THESUS-HF)

Journal of Cardiac Failure

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 45-52

  Dzudie, Anastase ^a,b   Milo, Olga ^c   Edwards, Christopher ^d   Cotter, Gad ^c   Davison, Beth A ^c   Damasceno, Albertino ^d   Mayosi, Bongani M ^e   Mondo, Charles ^f   Ogah, Okechukwu ^g   Ojji, Dike ^h   Sani, Mahmoud U ⁱ   Sliwa, Karen ^b,j,k  

^a DOUALA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Cameroon)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c Momentum Research Inc   (United States)

^d EDUARDO MONDLANE UNIVERSITY   (Mozambique)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^f UGANDA HEART INSTITUTE   (Uganda)

^g UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN   (Nigeria)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ABUJA   (Nigeria)

ⁱ BAYERO UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

^j UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^k Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine   (South Africa)

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Author keywords

Africa; electrocardiogram; heart failure; outcome; prognosis

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART FAILURE; ADULT; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ARTICLE; CARDIAC PATIENT; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; COHORT ANALYSIS; DYSPNEA; ECG ABNORMALITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART LEFT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART RATE; HEART RIGHT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; Q WAVE; QRS COMPLEX; QT INTERVAL; SINUS RHYTHM; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL RATE;

AFRICA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART FAILURE; OUTCOME; PROGNOSIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; AGED; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STROKE VOLUME;

EID: 84892629725     PISSN: 10719164     EISSN: 15328414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cardfail.2013.11.005     Document Type: Article

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