The Impact of Socioeconomic Status on Patients Supported with a Left Ventricular Assist Device: An Analysis of the UNOS Database

BACKGROUND: Low socioeconomic status (SES) is a known risk factor for heart failure, mortality among those with heart failure, and poor post heart transplant (HT) outcomes. This study sought to determine if SES is associated with decreased waitlist survival while on LVAD support and after HT. METHOD...

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Veröffentlicht in:Circ Heart Fail
Hauptverfasser: Clerkin, Kevin J., Garan, A. Reshad, Wayda, Brian, Givens, Raymond C., Yuzefpolskaya, Melana, Nakagawa, Shunichi, Takeda, Koji, Takayama, Hiroo, Naka, Yoshifumi, Mancini, Donna M., Colombo, Paolo C., Topkara, Veli K.
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Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: 2016
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Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5123683/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27758810
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.116.003215
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