Patterns of Weight Change Preceding Hospitalization for Heart Failure

Volume: 116, Issue: 14, Pages: 1549 - 1554
Published: Oct 2, 2007
Abstract
Background— Weight gain is used by disease-management programs as a marker of heart failure decompensation, but little information is available to quantify the relationship between weight change in patients with heart failure and the risk for imminent hospitalization. Methods and Results— We conducted a nested case-control study among patients with heart failure referred to a home monitoring system by managed care organizations. We matched 134...
Paper Details
Title
Patterns of Weight Change Preceding Hospitalization for Heart Failure
Published Date
Oct 2, 2007
Volume
116
Issue
14
Pages
1549 - 1554
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