Calcium Channel Blockers and Outcomes in Older Patients With Heart Failure and Preserved Ejection Fraction

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Authors

Kanan Patel · University of California, San Francisco

Gregg C. Fonarow · University of California, Los Angeles

Momanna B. Ahmed · New York Medical College

Charity J. Morgan · University of California, San Francisco

Meredith L. Kilgore · Case Western Reserve University

Thomas E. Love · University of California, Los Angeles

Prakash Deedwania

Abstract

In hospitalized older patients with heart failure, new discharge prescriptions for CCBs had no associations with composite or individual end points of mortality or heart failure hospitalization, regardless of the class of CCBs.

Topics & Keywords

Heart Failure Treatment and Management Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias Potassium and Related Disorders

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Good health and well-being

Publication Details

Published in: Circulation Heart Failure

Volume 7, Issue 6, pp. 945-952

DOI: 10.1161/circheartfailure.114.001301

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