Effectiveness of guideline-recommended cardiac drugs for reducing mortality in the elderly Medicare heart failure population a retrospective, survey-weighted, cohort analysis.
Background: Heart failure (HF) management guidelines recommend that most patients with HF receive an ACE inhibitor or an angiotensin II type I receptor antagonist (angiotensin receptor blocker [ARB]) and a β-blocker (β-adrenoceptor antagonist), collectively referred to as 'cardiac drugs', based on r...
| Published in: | Drugs & Aging Vol. 27; no. 10; pp. 845 - 855 |
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| Main Authors: | , , , , , |
| Format: | research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Springer Nature
2010
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