… the heart that … death in patients with heart failure and highlight the critical unanswered
questions that are ripe for future investigation. Nearly 5 million Americans experience heart failure (…

… Background— Mortality in patients with heart failure (HF) remains high, but causes of death
are … fraction (EF), the association between EF and causes of death is important, yet elusive. …

… Heart failure … death has also been reported as a frequent cause of mortality. The objectives
of this study were to investigate mortality and its causes in outpatients with heart failure of …

… cause of heart failure in many parts of the world and can strike at any age. Heart failure is …
Rheumatic fever due to preventable bacterial infections is a prominent cause of heart failure …

… heart disease, it is rarely officially coded as the underlying cause of death regardless of the
cause … contribution of heart failure to overall mortality and coronary heart disease mortality …

… Defining how patients with heart failure die could be important in developing strategies to …
with heart failure to ascertain how death was classified. Definitions of sudden death appeared …

… We examined all-cause mortality, death due to arrhythmia, and death due to worsening HF
over a median follow-up of 37 months. Cause of death was assigned by local investigators …

… and death registries between 1987 and 2006, heart failure incidence … heart disease, an
increase of patients with rare causes of heart failure (eg Chagas disease, rheumatic heart disease…

… rehospitalization and death rates are high in patients with acute heart failure (HF) syndromes
… To the best of our knowledge, there has been no systematic analysis of the causes of death …

… Heart failure as an underlying cause of death in Europe. (A) Age-standardized death rates;
(… (A) Heart failure (HF) as the underlying cause of death; continuous lines correspond to the …