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Cardiac Dysfunction and Noncardiac Dysfunction as Precursors of Heart Failure With Reduced and Preserved Ejection Fraction in the Community

CSP Lam, A Lyass, E Kraigher-Krainer... - Circulation, 2011 - Am Heart Assoc BackgroundHeart failure (HF) is a clinical syndrome characterized by signs and symptoms involving multiple organ systems. Longitudinal data demonstrating that asymptomatic cardiac dysfunction precedes overt HF are scarce, and the contribution of noncardiac dysfunction ... [CITATION] Oxford Textbook of Heart Failure TA Mc Donagh, RS Gardner, AL Clark... - 2011 - Oxford University Press, USA

From the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA (C.S.L., A.L., J.M., D.S.L., J.E.H., D.L., E.J.B., R.S.V.); Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Boston University, Boston, MA (A.L.); Department of Cardiology, University of Graz, Graz, Austria (E.K.-K., B.P.); Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA (J.M.M.); Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences and Toronto General Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada (D.S.L.); Center for Population Studies, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, MD (D.L.); Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN (M.M.R., C.S.L.); and Cardiology and Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology Sections, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA (E.J.B., R.S.V.).