Sex differences in heart failure
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Sex differences in the prognosis of congestive heart failure.
Heart Failure To the Editor: I read with interest the article by Simon et al1 in the January 23, 2001, issue of Circulation on gender differences in the prognosis of heart failure. I would like to bring 2 points to the authors’ attention. The first point relates to the authors’ statement comparing their data with that of the Studies of Left Ventricular Dysfunction (SOLVD) trial, ie, that all pa...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Cardiology
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0160-9289
DOI: 10.1002/clc.22917