European Heart Journal Advance Access originally published online on December 5, 2005
European Heart Journal 2006 27(3):372; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehi676
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Unrecognized heart failure in elderly patients with stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
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The documentation of a 20.5% prevalence of heart failure (with ischaemic heart disease as the underlying cause in 20.2%) in stable chronic COPD1 is consistent with the observation made by Keistinen et al.2 that coronary heart disease was