Cognitive status in patients hospitalized with acute decompensated heart failure
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Acute Decompensated Heart Failure
eart failure has emerged over the past several decades as a major global public health problem, with rising prevalence reported in both industrialized and developing nations alike.1–6 In addition to the enormous costs in human suffering and loss of productivity, heart failure has imposed an increasingly heavy financial burden on health-care systems throughout the world. Although highly effectiv...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Heart Journal
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0002-8703
DOI: 10.1016/j.ahj.2014.08.008