Heart Failure

Reports summarize heart failure study results from Aarhus University

Published in Drug Week, October 3rd, 2008

"There are limited data describing how pre-existing heart failure affects mortality following pneumonia. To examine the association between history and severity of heart failure and mortality among patients hospitalized for pneumonia," scientists in Aalborg, Denmark report.

"Population-based cohort study in Western Denmark between 1994 and 2003. 33,736 adults with a first-time hospitalization for pneumonia. Heart failure was identified and categorized based on data linked from population-based health care databases. We compared 30-day mortality between patients with pre-existing heart failure and other pneumonia patients, while adjusting for age, gender, comorbidity,...

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Source: Drug Week (2008-10-03)

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