Declining Risk of Sudden Death in Heart Failure

Data were analyzed from 40,195 patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction enrolled in 12 clinical trials in the 1995–2014 period. Sudden-death rates declined substantially over time, a finding consistent with a cumulative effect of evidence-based medical therapy.

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Published in:	The New England journal of medicine Vol. 377; no. 1; pp. 41 - 51
Main Authors:	Shen, Li, Jhund, Pardeep S, Petrie, Mark C, Claggett, Brian L, Barlera, Simona, Cleland, John G.F, Dargie, Henry J, Granger, Christopher B, Kjekshus, John, Køber, Lars, Latini, Roberto, Maggioni, Aldo P, Packer, Milton, Pitt, Bertram, Solomon, Scott D, Swedberg, Karl, Tavazzi, Luigi, Wikstrand, John, Zannad, Faiez, Zile, Michael R, McMurray, John J.V
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States Massachusetts Medical Society 06.07.2017
Subjects:	Adult Age Factors Aged Angiotensin candesartan Cardiac arrhythmia cardiac death Cardiology Cardiovascular diseases Cause of Death Clinical Medicine Clinical trials Confounding Factors, Epidemiologic converting-enzyme inhibitors Death Death, Sudden - epidemiology Defibrillators dysfunction Female Follow-Up Studies General & Internal Medicine Health risk assessment Heart diseases Heart failure Heart Failure - mortality Heart Failure - physiopathology Humans implantable cardioverter-defibrillator Incidence Ischemia Klinisk medicin Male metaanalysis Middle Aged Mortality myocardial-infarction Patients Peptidyl-dipeptidase A prevention Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic randomized controlled-trials Regression Analysis Risk Sex Factors Stroke Volume ventricular systolic
ISSN:	0028-4793, 1533-4406, 1533-4406
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