Clinical Characteristics and Social Frailty of Super-Elderly Patients With Heart Failure ― The Kitakawachi Clinical Background and Outcome of Heart Failure Registry

Background:Social background is important in preventing admission/readmission of heart failure (HF) patients. However, few clinical studies have been conducted to assess the social background of these patients, especially elderly patients.Methods and Results:The Kitakawachi Clinical Background and O...

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Veröffentlicht in:Circulation Journal 2016/12/22, Vol.81(1), pp.69-76
Hauptverfasser: Takabayashi, Kensuke, Ikuta, Akihiro, Okazaki, Yoshinori, Ogami, Mariko, Iwatsu, Kotaro, Matsumura, Koichi, Ikeda, Tsutomu, Ichinohe, Tahei, Morikami, Yuko, Yamamoto, Takashi, Fujita, Ryoko, Takenaka, Kotoe, Takenaka, Hiroyuki, Haruna, Yoshisumi, Muranaka, Hiroyuki, Ozaki, Masaaki, Kitamura, Tetsuhisa, Kitaguchi, Shouji, Nohara, Ryuji
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Zusammenfassung:Background:Social background is important in preventing admission/readmission of heart failure (HF) patients. However, few clinical studies have been conducted to assess the social background of these patients, especially elderly patients.Methods and Results:The Kitakawachi Clinical Background and Outcome of Heart Failure (KICKOFF) Registry is a prospective multicenter community-based cohort of HF patients, established in April 2015. We compared the clinical characteristics and social background of the super-elderly group (≥85 years old) and the non-super-elderly group (
ISSN:1346-9843
1347-4820
1347-4820
DOI:10.1253/circj.CJ-16-0914