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Hypoalbuminaemia and Incident Heart Failure in Older Adults

Gerasimos Filippatos, Ravi V. Desai, Mustafa I. Ahmed, Gregg C. Fonarow, Thomas E. Love, Inmaculada Aban, Ami E. Iskandrian, Marvin A. Konstam, Ali Ahmed

European Journal of Heart Failure · 2011 · 75 citations · 29 references

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Abstract

Among community-dwelling older adults without HF, baseline hypoalbuminaemia was associated with increased risk of incident HF during 10 years of follow-up.

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