In patients with congestive heart failure, the immediate prognosis is driven more by the precipitating cause of failure than the underlying type of heart disease.
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Precipitating causes may refine immediate HF prognosis estimates beyond etiology; this cohort study leaves open whether targeting them improves outcomes.
Boyer et al. (1941) studied this question.
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