Open AccessDecreasing one-year mortality and hospitalization rates for heart failure in Sweden Data from the Swedish Hospital Discharge Registry 1988 to 2000
Author(s) -
Maria Schaufelberger
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
european heart journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.336
H-Index - 293
eISSN - 1522-9645
pISSN - 0195-668X
DOI - 10.1016/j.ehj.2003.12.012
Subject(s) - medicine , heart failure , incidence (geometry) , demography , population , hospital discharge , mortality rate , epidemiology , pediatrics , environmental health , physics , sociology , optics
To investigate if improved treatment of coronary heart disease and hypertension, the major causes of chronic heart failure (CHF), in the last 20 years has had an impact on the incidence of CHF and survival.
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