Self‐care is defined as a naturalistic decision‐making process addressing both the
prevention and management of chronic illness, with core elements of self‐care …

Aim Diminished diuretic response is common in patients with acute heart failure, although a
clinically useful definition is lacking. Our aim was to investigate a practical, workable metric …

Heart Failure Society (JHFS). The working committee for this project includes members and
collaborators involved in the previous versions of the heart failure guidelines and members …

Background: The relationship between serum potassium, mortality, and conditions
commonly associated with dyskalemias, such as heart failure (HF), chronic kidney disease …

The recommendations listed in this document are, whenever possible, evidence based. An
extensive evidence review was conducted through October 2011 and includes selected …

The propensity score is a subject's probability of treatment, conditional on observed baseline
covariates. Conditional on the true propensity score, treated and untreated subjects have …

Context β-Blockers remain the standard of care after a myocardial infarction (MI). However,
the benefit of β-blocker use in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) but no history of …

Results During the study, serum K+ levels of 5.5–5.9 and≥ 6.0 mEq/L were most prevalent
at lower eGFR: they were present, respectively, in 1.7% and 0.2% of patient-time for eGFR of …

Aims To assess differences in diuretic dose requirements in patients treated with
sacubitril/valsartan compared with enalapril in the Prospective comparison of ARNI with …

For obtaining causal inferences that are objective, and therefore have the best chance of
revealing scientific truths, carefully designed and executed randomized experiments are …