Rajesh Rajan, Jeremy Man Ho Hui, Mohammad A Al Jarallah, Gary Tse, Jeffrey Shi Kai Chan, Danish Iltaf Satti, Chloe Tsz Ching Hui, Yuxi Sun, Yan Hiu Athena Lee, Ying Liu, Govindan Vijayaraghavan, Ibrahim Al-Zakwani, Laura AlObaid
BACKGROUND: The dimensionless Rajan's heart failure (R-hf) risk score was proposed to predict all-cause mortality in patients hospitalized with chronic heart failure (HF) and reduced ejection fraction (EF) (HFrEF). PURPOSE: To examine the association between the modified R-hf risk score and all-cause mortality in patients with HFrEF. METHODS: Retrospective cohort study included adults hospitalized with HFrEF, as defined by clinical symptoms of HF with biplane EF less than 40% on transthoracic echocardiography, at a tertiary centre in Dalian, China, between 1 November 2015, and 31 October 2019...
April 2024: Annals of Medicine and Surgery