Worsening Renal Function and Mortality in Heart Failure: Causality or Confounding?

Jeffrey M Testani; Meredith A Brisco-Bacik

doi:10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.117.003835

Worsening Renal Function and Mortality in Heart Failure: Causality or Confounding?

Circ Heart Fail. 2017 Feb;10(2):e003835. doi: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.117.003835.

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Jeffrey M Testani¹, Meredith A Brisco-Bacik²

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¹ From the Department of Medicine, Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT (J.M.T.); and Department of Medicine, Cardiology Division, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA (M.A.B.-B.). jeffrey.testani@yale.edu.
² From the Department of Medicine, Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT (J.M.T.); and Department of Medicine, Cardiology Division, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA (M.A.B.-B.).

PMID: 28209768
PMCID: PMC5382499
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.117.003835

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Keywords: Editorials; cardio-renal syndrome; glomerular filtration rate; heart failure; prognosis; renin-angiotensin system; worsening renal function.

Worsening Renal Function and Mortality in Heart Failure: Causality or Confounding?

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