Heart Failure Epidemiology
Studies from Cleveland Clinic, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine in the area of heart failure epidemiology published
Published in Cardiovascular Week, February 18th, 2008
Research findings, 'Relation of low hemoglobin and anemia to morbidity and mortality in patients hospitalized with heart failure (insight from the OPTIMIZE-HF registry),' are discussed in a new report. "Anemia in heart failure (HF) is increasingly recognized and treated, but little is known about the prevalence and its relation to outcomes in patients hospitalized for decompensated HF in a situation of both reduced and preserved systolic function. We hypothesized that lower hemoglobin is correlated with death during hospitalization and 60 to 90 days postdischarge in patients with HF," scientists in the United States report.
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