Community burden and prognostic impact of reduced kidney function among patients hospitalized with acute decompensated heart failure: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study Community Surveillance.

Kidney dysfunction is prevalent and impacts prognosis in patients with acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF). However, most previous reports were from a single hospital, limiting their generalizability. Also, contemporary data using new equation for estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) are...

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Main Authors: Kunihiro Matsushita, Lucia Kwak, Noorie Hyun, Marina Bessel, Sunil K Agarwal, Laura R Loehr, Hanyu Ni, Patricia P Chang, Josef Coresh, Lisa M Wruck, Wayne Rosamond
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5549913?pdf=render