Hospitalizations and Prognosis in Elderly Patients With Heart Failure and Preserved Ejection Fraction: Time to Treat the Whole Patient

JACC Heart Fail. 2015 Jun;3(6):442-444. doi: 10.1016/j.jchf.2015.01.009. Epub 2015 May 14.

Authors

Dalane W Kitzman¹, Bharthi Upadhya², Gordon Reeves³

Affiliations

¹ Section on Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Section on Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
³ Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Keywords: aging; comorbidities; frailty; heart failure with preserved ejection fraction; hospitalization.

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MeSH terms

Female
Heart Failure / mortality*
Hospitalization / statistics & numerical data*
Humans
Male
Stroke Volume*

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