Epidemiology of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction

Nature Reviews Cardiology

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2017, Pages 591-602

  Dunlay, Shannon M ^a   Roger, Véronique L ^a   Redfield, Margaret M ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AGE; BODY MASS; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ETHNICITY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEART FAILURE WITH PRESERVED EJECTION FRACTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE CHRONIC CONDITIONS; OBESITY; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEX; HEART FAILURE; HEART STROKE VOLUME; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROGNOSIS;

HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; PHENOTYPE; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK FACTORS; STROKE VOLUME;

EID: 85030976771     PISSN: 17595002     EISSN: 17595010     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrcardio.2017.65     Document Type: Review

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