Red blood cell distribution width is longitudinally associated with mortality and anemia in heart failure patients

Circulation Journal

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 410-418

  Núñez, Julio ^a   Núñez, Eduardo ^a   Rizopoulos, Dimitris ^d   Miñana, Gema ^b   Bodí, Vicent ^a   Bondanza, Lourdes ^a   Husser, Oliver ^e   Merlos, Pilar ^a   Santas, Enrique ^a   Pascual Figal, Domingo ^c   Chorro, Francisco J ^a   Sanchis, Juan ^a  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNICO UNIVERSITARIO   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^d ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acute heart failure; Anemia; Longitudinal assessment; Mortality; Red blood cell distribution width

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART FAILURE; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RED BLOOD CELL DISTRIBUTION WIDTH; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPLICATION; HEART FAILURE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEMIA; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84892955569     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.CJ-13-0630     Document Type: Article

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