Doctors often overlook heart failure guidelines, study shows
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Chronic heart failure guidelines.
I read the editorial of M. R. Cowie with great interest. The figures on the prognosis of heart failure were admirably clear. Nobody can deny the grim prognosis of heart failure patients, as reported by Mosterd and colleagues in the article to which the editorial refers. Cowie identifies patients who are likely to do especially badly: the very old, those with impaired renal function, diabetes an...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0959-8138,1756-1833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.39601.678796.db