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Canadian Medical Association Journal
Defibrillators may have little benefit for older people with comorbidities
March 30th, 2009
Older people with comorbidities and those with multiple hospital admissions related to heart failure are unlikely to receive a meaningful survival benefit from implanted defibrillators, found a study in CMAJ by researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts http://www.cmaj.ca/press/pg611.pdf. The cohort study looked at more than 14 000 patients with heart failure using an administrative database over 5 years. The mean age of the group was 77 years, and patients had a high level of comorbidities such as other cardiovascular disease, diabetes, chronic pulmonary disease and kidney disease. Survival...
Source: Diabetes Week (2009-03-30)
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