FACTORS EFFECTING THE DECOMPENSATION OF CHRONIC HEART FAILURE IN THE ELDERLY
| Autor: | V. N. Larina, B. Ya. Bart, E. A. Vartanyan |
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| Jazyk: | English<br />Russian |
| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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| Zdroj: | Рациональная фармакотерапия в кардиологии, Vol 9, Iss 1, Pp 15-24 (2015) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 1819-6446 2225-3653 |
| DOI: | 10.20996/1819-6446-2013-9-1-15-24 |
| Popis: | Aim. To identify risk factors of decompensation of chronic heart failure (CHF) and related hospitalization in elderly outpatients.Material and methods. The total of 248 patients aged 60–85 years with CHF NYHA class II-IV were enrolled into the study. The first group consisted of 87 (35.1%) patients who required hospitalization due to CHF decompensation during the follow-up, the second group of 161 patients without need for hospital admission. All the patients had undergone clinical and laboratory examination, estimation of CHF severity by the Scale of clinical state, assessment of quality of life and 6-minute walk test (6MWT), echocardiography.Results. Patients were matched for age, gender, disability occurrence, education level, body mass index, quality of life, hemodynamic parameters, incidence rates of anemia, diabetes mellitus and atrial fibrillation. CHF was more severe in patients who had required hospitalization (p |
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