More ‘malignant’ than cancer? Five‐year survival following a first admission for heart failure

By S. Stewart, K. MacIntyre, D. Hole, S. Capewell, J. McMurray. European Journal of Heart Failure, 2001

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The prognostic impact of heart failure relative to that of ‘high‐profile’ disease states such as cancer, within the whole population, is unknown.

Subfields: Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine

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Citations in the corpus

• ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure 2008 ‡ (2008, neutral): “Advanced HF has a very poor 1-year survival rate, and the prognosis is worse than for most common forms of cancer.(34) However, in most European countries, patients with end-stage HF are infrequently referred to specialist palliative care.”