Low prealbumin is strongly associated with adverse outcome in heart failure

Heart

Volumn 100, Issue 22, 2014, Pages 1780-1785

  Lourenҫo, Patrícia ^a   Silva, Sérgio ^a   Friões, Fernando ^a   Alvelos, Margarida ^a   Amorim, Marta ^a   Couto, Marta ^a   Torres Ramalho, Paulo ^a   Tiago Guimarães, João ^a   Paulo Araújo, José ^a   Bettencourt, Paulo ^a  

^a University of Porto   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; PREALBUMIN;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; BLOOD; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PORTUGAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURVIVAL; TRENDS; VERY ELDERLY;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT READMISSION; PORTUGAL; PREALBUMIN; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84922265983     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: 1468201X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2014-305747     Document Type: Article

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