… heart failure in the United States. We sought to estimate the annual incidence and prevalence
of heart failure and associated survival in elderly persons … as having heart failure between …

… we found that the prognosis for elderly patients with heart failure was poor and improved little
… with heart failure, so these findings are highly representative of the heart failure population …

… Do elderly systolic heart failure patients benefit from beta blockers to the same extent as
the non-elderly? Meta-analysis of >12,000 patients in large-scale clinical trials …

… how elderly persons perceive the impact of chronic heart failure (… been developed or tested
specifically on elderly persons. … with Heart Failure Questionnaire (LHFQ) on elderly persons …

… In a US population based study, the prevalence of heart failure was 0.7% in persons aged
between 45 and 54 years but it was 8.4% in those older than 75 years. [7] However, current …

… Our principal finding is that community-based elderly persons with congestive heart failure
have a substantial risk for death, even in the presence of normal or borderline decreased left …

… Diuretics are the drugs of choice to relieve symptoms including dyspnea and fluid retention
in elderly heart failure patients with volume overload. By increasing urinary sodium excretion, …

Objectives : We sought to evaluate cystatin-C, a novel measure of renal function, as a predictor
of mortality in elderly persons with heart failure (HF) and to compare it with creatinine. …

… Results of the present investigation demonstrate that congestive heart failure in older
persons is associated with not only with changes in walking time and velocity, but also with …

… , individuals with none, one, two, three, and four or more of these complications had an
increasing rate of heart failure (11.5, 14.3, 18.5, 24.2, and 28.8 per 100 person-years, respectively…