Clinical characteristics and mortality of heart failure. INCAex study

• Published in: Revista clínica espanõla (English edition) Vol. 213; no. 1; pp. 16 - 24
• Main Authors: Fernández-Bergés, D., Consuegra-Sánchez, L., Félix-Redondo, F.J., Robles, N.R., Galán Montejano, M., Lozano-Mera, L.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Spain Elsevier España, S.L.U 01.01.2013
• Subjects: Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Cardiovascular diseases; Enfermedades cardiovasculares; Female; Follow-Up Studies; Heart failure; Heart Failure - diagnosis; Heart Failure - mortality; Hospital Mortality; Humans; Insuficiencia cardiaca; Kaplan-Meier Estimate; Male; Middle Aged; Mortalidad; Mortality; Prognosis; Proportional Hazards Models; Registries; Retrospective Studies; Risk Factors; Spain - epidemiology; Spain; Heart failure; Enfermedades cardiovasculares; Insuficiencia cardiaca; Mortalidad; Cardiovascular diseases; Mortality

Heart failure is responsible for a major part of hospital health expenditure and the third cause of cardiovascular death. To describe the evolution of clinical features, and factors related to prognosis of patients admitted due to decompensated heart failure in a region of Extremadura during a perio...