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Heart Failure
Data on heart failure detailed by researchers at Chinese University of Hong Kong
July 6th, 2008
According to recent research from Hong Kong, People's Republic of China, "There are no risk scores available for predicting heart failure in Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Based on the Hong Kong Diabetes Registry, this study aimed to develop and validate a risk score for predicting heart failure that needs hospitalisation in T2DM." "7067 Hong Kong Chinese diabetes patients without history of heart failure, and without history and clinical evidence of coronary heart disease at baseline were analyzed. The subjects have been followed up for a median period of 5.5 years. Data were randomly and evenly assigned to a training dataset and a test dataset. Sex-stratified Cox...
Source: Heart Disease Weekly (2008-07-06)
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