Background Primary prevention strategies for cardiovascular disease (CVD) conventionally rely on 10-year risk estimates of ...

Background Early heart failure (HF) diagnosis is crucial to ensure that optimal guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT) is administered to reduce morbidity and mortality. Limited access to ...

In order for healthcare providers to receive reimbursement for a particular service, visit, or procedure, they must submit the ICD-10 code, which describes the patient's condition, along with a common ...

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Background Studies have shown an increased risk of cardiac disease following COVID-19, but how it compares to pneumonia of ...

Whether this translates into a higher risk of heart failure (HF) and cardiac dysrhythmias is not known ... After a median duration of 7.8 years, the composite outcome occurred in 148 women with MPS (2 ...

The resting electrocardiogram (ECG) furnishes essential information for the diagnosis, management, and prognostic evaluation of patients with congestive heart failure (CHF). Almost any ECG ...

The immune response to infections may become dysregulated and promote myocardial damage contributing to heart failure (HF). We examined the relationship between infection ... 29 Briefly, ...

This cohort study used the Longitudinal Health Insurance Database (LHID), a sub-dataset of National Health Insurance (NHI) Research Database containing healthcare claims between 1996 and 2010 for ...

As shown in Figure 1, all patients hospitalized for CHF in 2009–2011 were included in the study, based on having an International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD ...

Introduction: ICD-10 codes are often used for stroke research in administrative databases. Few studies have assessed their reliability in large, representative populations of the United States. We ...