As advances in medical treatment of heart failure (HF) become limited, other factors are
being studied to improve outcomes. There is much evidence that supportive social relations …

… obese patients and those of recommended weight were accepted for transplantation, the lower
rate of transplants in obese patients … In this study, 21.8% of obese patients received heart …

… patients. Design And Setting: Semistructured interviews were conducted on 82 patients at an
outpatient heart failure … Five standardized instruments were used to gather data on patients' …

Objective: The purpose of this study was to evaluate gender differences in quality of life (QOL)
in a large sample of age-matched and ejection fraction (EF)-matched patients with heart …

… patients’ preferences for survival vs improvement in symptoms. Methods: We enrolled …
patients with advanced heart failure (ejection fraction 24 ± 10, duration 6 ± 5 years). Each patient …

… to ascertain how patients hospitalized for heart failure are … The Euro Heart Failure programme
is the first pan-European … and treatment of patients hospitalized for or with heart failure, a …

… in a cohort of elderly patients hospitalized with heart failure. … and prognostic implications in
patients with heart failure. We … of Medicare patients who had been admitted for heart failure. …

… This analysis explored the prognostic importance of heart rate in patients with heart failure
with reduced ejection fraction in randomized controlled trials comparing beta-blockers and …

… (ie, the Self-Management of Heart Failure questionnaire) designed to measure this process.
… -Management of Heart Failure questionnaire was used in a sample of 139 patients with HF. …

… , we assigned 5050 patients with chronic heart failure (New York Heart Association class II,
… was a composite of death from cardiovascular causes or first hospitalization for heart failure. …