Population
3,200 hospitalization episodes for acute heart failure from the Korean Heart Failure Registry database, mean…
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
up to 4 years
Authors
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Acute HF carries 30% 4-year mortality; these observational associations remain hypothesis-generating pending prospective validation.
In a Korean registry of acute heart failure, long-term mortality was high (30% at 4 years) and associated with age, prior HF, anemia, hyponatremia, high NT-proBNP, and beta-blocker use at discharge.
Choi et al. (2011) studied this question.