Heart rate at hospital discharge in patients with heart failure is associated with mortality and rehospitalization

Journal of the American Heart Association

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Laskey, Warren K ^a   Alomari, Ihab ^b   Cox, Margueritte ^c   Schulte, Phillip J ^c   Zhao, Xin ^c   Hernandez, Adrian F ^c   Heidenreich, Paul A ^d   Eapen, Zubin J ^c   Yancy, Clyde ^e   Bhatt, Deepak L ^f   Fonarow, Gregg C ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c DUKE CLINICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d VA PALO ALTO HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^e NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Heart failure; Heart rate; Mortality

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BLACK PERSON; CAUCASIAN; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HEART VENTRICULOGRAPHY; HISPANIC; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SINUS RHYTHM; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; TELEMETRY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VERY ELDERLY; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART RATE; MORTALITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PATIENT READMISSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84945462086     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20479980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/JAHA.114.001626     Document Type: Article

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