Baseline characteristics of patients recruited into the CARE-HF study

Abstract

The patients enrolled in CARE-HF had moderately severe heart failure and cardiac dysfunction with evidence of cardiac dyssynchrony. The population appears at high risk of events despite pharmacological therapy and therefore appropriate for a trial of CRT.

Keywords

MedicineHeart failureInterquartile rangeInternal medicineEjection fractionCardiologyCardiac resynchronization therapyPopulationSpironolactoneBeta blockerBlood pressure

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University of Hull GB

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Year: 2005
Type: article
Volume: 7
Issue: 2
Pages: 205-214
Citations: 79
Access: Closed

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                                    John G.F. Cleland, 
                                
                                    Jean‐Claude Daubert, 
                                
                                    Erland Erdmann
                                
                                et al.
                            
                            (2005). 
                            Baseline characteristics of patients recruited into the CARE-HF study. 
                            European Journal of Heart Failure
                            , 7
                            (2)
                            , 205-214.
                            https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejheart.2005.01.010
                        

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DOI: 10.1016/j.ejheart.2005.01.010