Known and missing left v entricular ejection fraction and survival in patients with heart failure : a MAGGIC meta-analysis report

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Known and missing left v entricular ejection fraction and survival in patients with heart failure : a MAGGIC meta-analysis report

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Aims Treatment of patients with heart failure (HF) relies on measurement of LVEF. However, the extent to which EF isrecorded varies markedly. We sought to characterize the patient group that is missing a measure of EF, and toexplore the association between missing EF and outcome.Methodsand resultsIndividual data on 30 445 patients from 28 observational studies in the Meta-Analysis Global Group in Chronic HeartFailure (MAGGIC) project were used to compare the prevalence of co-morbidities and o...

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2013-06-26

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Poppe, K.K. / Squire, I.B. / Whalley, Gillian

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https://hdl.handle.net/10652/2591

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heart failure / outcomes / meta-analysis / ejection fraction / missing data / Cardiology (incl. Cardiovascular Diseases)

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