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Hospital Readmissions for Heart Failure Linked to Higher Rates of 3-Year Mortality

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Hospital Readmissions for Heart Failure Linked to Higher Rates of 3-Year Mortality AJMC Within 1 year of follow-up post hospital discharge, 61.3% of patients with hypertension and a first diagnosis of heart failure required readmittance and 21.4% died, according to a recent study in Journal of Clinical Hypertension. For this population-based cohort study, the Myocardial Infarction Data Acquisition System, which tracks hospitalizations for cardiovascular (CV) disease in New Jersey, provided data on 51,141 patients with hypertension and a first diagnosis of heart failure who were discharged from a hospital between January 1, 2000, and December 31, 2014. READ MORE

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