Recipient body mass index and age interact to impact survival after heart transplantation.

Weber, Daniel J; Hashmi, Zubair A; Gracon, Adam S A; Hellman, Yaron M; Patel, Ankur J; Wozniak, Thomas C; Wang, I-wen

Weber, Daniel J; Hashmi, Zubair A; Gracon, Adam S A; Hellman, Yaron M; Patel, Ankur J; Wozniak, Thomas C; Wang, I-wen.

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Weber DJ; Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Indiana University Health and School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA.

Clin Transplant ; 28(11): 1279-86, 2014 Nov.

Article in En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-25203694

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Age Factors; Body Mass Index; Heart Failure/mortality; Heart Failure/surgery; Heart Transplantation/mortality; Adult; Aged; Databases, Factual; Female; Humans; Kaplan-Meier Estimate; Male; Middle Aged; Proportional Hazards Models; Retrospective Studies; Risk Factors; Survival Rate

Key words

body mass index; database; heart transplantation; recipient age; survival analysis

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Full text: 1 Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Body Mass Index / Age Factors / Heart Transplantation / Heart Failure Type of study: Etiology_studies / Observational_studies / Prognostic_studies / Risk_factors_studies Limits: Adult / Aged / Female / Humans / Male / Middle aged Language: En Year: 2014 Type: Article

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