Heart Failure and Comorbidities
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Heart Failure and Comorbidities.
The timely and well-structured presentation concerning the burden of comorbidities and functional and cognitive impairments in elderly patients with heart failure by Murad et al. (1) and the accompanying thought-provoking editorial by Shaffer and Maurer merit an additional point of concern regarding mortality. The comorbid statistical assessment of factors contributing to greater total mortalit...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: JACC: Heart Failure
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2213-1779
DOI: 10.1016/j.jchf.2015.09.008