National trends in heart failure hospitalization rates in Slovenia 2004–2012

European Journal of Heart Failure

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 1321-1328

  Omersa, Daniel ^a   Farkas, Jerneja ^a   Erzen, Ivan ^a   Lainscak, Mitja ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Slovenia)

^b General Hospital Celje   (Slovenia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Heart failure; Hospitalizations; National trends; Readmissions

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SLOVENIA; TREND STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY, CHRONIC; RISK FACTOR; TRENDS; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY, CHRONIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SLOVENIA;

EID: 84987829323     PISSN: 13889842     EISSN: 18790844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ejhf.617     Document Type: Article

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