Abstract'Heart failure self care'refers to the practices in which patients engage to maintain
their own health, and to the decisions that they make about managing signs or symptoms. In …

2672 Circulation June 21, 2016 indication narrowed to include only those with left
bundlebranch block configuration as the driver of the wide QRS, 13 based both on clinical …

Background Chronic heart failure is associated with high mortality and morbidity. Raised
resting heart rate is a risk factor for adverse outcomes. We aimed to assess the effect of heart …

Background Poor glycaemic control is associated with microvascular and macrovascular
complications in type 1 diabetes, but whether glycaemic control is associated with heart …

Background: Advancing age is associated with a greater prevalence of coronary artery
disease in heart failure with reduced ejection fraction and with a higher risk of complications …

Aims ACE‐inhibitors, β‐blockers, implantable cardioverter–defibrillator (ICD) and cardiac
resynchronization therapy (CRT) improved prognosis of heart failure. We sought to analyse …

Background—The aging of Western populations is expected to result in increasing
occurrence of aortic stenosis (AS), but data are limited. Recent studies have reported …

Aims Little is known regarding temporal trends in mortality attributed to heart failure (HF)
from a population perspective. The aim of this study was to assess the mortality related to HF …

Background—Therapies for patients with chronic heart failure caused by left ventricular
systolic dysfunction have advanced substantially over recent decades. The cumulative effect …

BACKGROUND: Contemporary heart failure (HF) patients are elderly and have a high rate
of early rehospitalization or death, resulting in a high burden for both the patients and the …