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Congestive heart failure risk may be predicted by electrocardiographic variables

Published in Women's Health Weekly, March 30th, 2006

Several repolarization variables in postmenopausal women are predictors of the risk of incident congestive heart failure.

Scientists in the United States report, "Information is limited about ECG predictors of the risk of incident congestive heart failure (CHF), particularly in women without overt manifestations of cardiovascular disease (CVD). We evaluated hazard ratios for incident CHF and all-cause mortality using Cox regression in 38,283 participants of the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) during a 9-year follow-up."

"All risk models were adjusted for demographic and available clinical and therapeutic variables (multivariable-adjusted models),"...

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