Risk stratification of Asian patients with heart failure and reduced ejection fraction: the effectiveness of the Echo Heart Failure Score

Eur J Heart Fail. 2017 Dec;19(12):1732-1735. doi: 10.1002/ejhf.922. Epub 2017 Sep 7.

Lena Bosch¹, Erberto Carluccio², Stefano Coiro², Lingli Gong³, David Sim⁴, Daniel Yeo⁵, Fazlur Jaufeerally⁶, Kui T G Leong⁷, Hean Y Ong⁸, Ng T Pin⁹, Arthur M Richards^{3

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11}, Fatih Arslan¹, Lieng H Ling^{3

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12}, Carolyn S P Lam⁴, Giuseppe Ambrosio²

¹ Experimental Cardiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
² Division of Cardiology, University of Perugia School of Medicine, Perugia, Italy.
³ Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore.
⁴ National Heart Centre, Singapore.
⁵ Department of Cardiology, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore.
⁶ Department of Internal Medicine, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore.
⁷ Department of Cardiology, Changi General Hospital, Singapore.
⁸ Department of Cardiology, Khoo Teck Puat Hospital, Singapore.
⁹ Department of Psychological Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore.
¹⁰ Department of Cardiology, National University Heart Centre Singapore.
¹¹ Christchurch Heart Institute, University of Otago, Christchurch, New Zealand.
¹² Cardiovascular Research Institute, National University of Singapore.

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Keywords: Echocardiography; Ethnicity; Heart Failure; Reduced ejection fraction; Risk stratification.

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