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European Heart Journal Advance Access published online on May 25, 2008
European Heart Journal, doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn229
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Published on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved. © The Author 2008. For permissions please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Erythropoietin and outcome prediction in patients with heart failure: the plot thickens...

Jacob George*

Cardiovascular Research Center and Department of Cardiology, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel

* Corresponding author. Tel: +972 3 6974762, Fax: +972 3 546 9832, Email: jacobg@post.tau.ac.il

This editorial refers to ‘Adequacy of endogenous erythropoietin levels and mortality in anaemic heart failure patients’{dagger} by P. van der Meer et al., on page 1510

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Heart failure syndromes represent a principal cause of morbidity and mortality in the Western world.1 The importance of measures for diagnosis, surveillance, and treatment of patients with chronic heart failure (CHF) are likely to attract increasing attention as the prevalence of the syndrome will rise with the ageing of the population. One of the most studied clinical determinants of outcome in patients with CHF is haemoglobin level.2 There are many reports showing that anaemia is associated with a reduced quality of life and increased mortality in these patients.2 However, many questions remain that pertain to the precise mechanisms . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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