Application of the United States acute heart failure risk prediction model in Japanese patients; analysis from a contemporary multicenter registry

Int J Cardiol. 2015 Sep 15:195:323-5. doi: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2015.05.164. Epub 2015 Jun 2.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
² Department of Cardiology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan. Electronic address: kohsaka@cpnet.med.keio.ac.jp.
³ Division of Cardiology, Kyorin University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
⁴ Department of Cardiology, Sakakibara Heart Institute, Tokyo, Japan.
⁵ Department of Cardiology, St Luke's International Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.

PMID: 26056965
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2015.05.164

No abstract available

Keywords: Acute heart failure; B-Type natriuretic peptide; Risk stratification model.

Publication types

Letter
Multicenter Study

MeSH terms

Acute Disease
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Biomarkers / blood
Blood Pressure*
Disease Management
Female
Heart Failure* / blood
Heart Failure* / diagnosis
Heart Failure* / etiology
Heart Failure* / mortality
Heart Failure* / physiopathology
Hospital Mortality
Humans
Japan / epidemiology
Kidney Function Tests / methods*
Male
Middle Aged
Natriuretic Peptide, Brain / blood*
Proportional Hazards Models
Registries
Risk Assessment / methods*

Substances

Biomarkers
Natriuretic Peptide, Brain