학술논문
Multimorbidity, guideline‐directed medical therapies, and associated outcomes among hospitalized heart failure patients
Document Type
article
Author
Source
ESC Heart Failure, Vol 9, Iss 4, Pp 2500-2510 (2022)
Subject
Language
English
ISSN
2055-5822
Abstract
Abstract Aims Multimorbidity is common among heart failure (HF) patients and may attenuate guideline‐directed medical therapy (GDMT). Multimorbid patients are under‐represented in clinical trials; therefore, the effect of multimorbidity clustering on the prognosis of HF patients remains unknown. We evaluated the prevalence of multimorbidity clusters among consecutively registered hospitalized HF patients and assessed whether GDMT attenuated outcomes. Methods and results We examined 1924 hospitalized HF patients with reduced left ventricular ejection fraction (