Mauro Gori, Michele Senni, Deepak K Gupta, David M Charytan, Elisabeth Kraigher-Krainer, Burkert Pieske, Brian Claggett, Amil M Shah, Angela B S Santos, Michael R Zile, Adriaan A Voors, John J V McMurray, Milton Packer, Toni Bransford, Martin Lefkowitz, Scott D Solomon
AIM: Renal dysfunction is a common comorbidity in patients with heart failure and preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF). We sought to determine whether renal dysfunction was associated with measures of cardiovascular structure/function in patients with HFpEF. METHODS: We studied 217 participants from the PARAMOUNT study with HFpEF who had echocardiography and measures of kidney function. We evaluated the relationships between renal dysfunction [estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) >30 and <60 mL/min/1...
December 21, 2014: European Heart Journal