Open AccessI Brazilian Registry of Heart Failure - Clinical Aspects, Care Quality and Hospitalization Outcomes
Author(s) -
Denílson Campos de Albuquerque,
João David de Souza Neto,
Fernando Bacal,
Luis Augusto Rohde,
Sabrina BernardezPereira,
Otávio Berwanger,
Dirceu Rodrigues Almeida
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.4
H-Index - 53
eISSN - 1678-4170
pISSN - 0066-782X
DOI - 10.5935/abc.20150031
Subject(s) - medicine , decompensation , heart failure , emergency medicine , dyslipidemia , observational study , medical prescription , intensive care medicine , obesity , pharmacology
Heart failure (HF) is one of the leading causes of hospitalization in adults in Brazil. However, most of the available data is limited to unicenter registries. The BREATHE registry is the first to include a large sample of hospitalized patients with decompensated HF from different regions in Brazil.