Association of weight change and in‐hospital mortality in patients with repeated hospitalization for heart failure

• Main Authors: Masaaki Konishi (Author), Hidehiro Kaneko (Author), Hidetaka Itoh (Author), Satoshi Matsuoka (Author), Akira Okada (Author), Kentaro Kamiya (Author), Tadafumi Sugimoto (Author), Katsuhito Fujiu (Author), Nobuaki Michihata (Author), Taisuke Jo (Author), Norifumi Takeda (Author), Hiroyuki Morita (Author), Kouichi Tamura (Author), Hideo Yasunaga (Author), Issei Komuro (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wiley, 2023-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Although weight loss in heart failure (HF) is a detrimental condition known as cachexia, weight gain caused by fluid retention should also be considered harmful. However, studies with sufficient number of patients examining the impact of weight change and its interval on in‐hospi...