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    IN-HOSPITAL MORTALITY AMONG PATIENTS RECEIVING AN IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER-DEFIBRILLATOR IN THE UNITED STATES: 2000 TO 2012
    Tashman, Ra'Ad; Dolmatova, Elena; Moazzami, Kasra; Patel, Monali; Mazza, Victor; Klapholz, Marc; Waller, Alfonso

    Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 04/2016, Volume: 67, Issue: 13
    Journal Article

    Patients who died were older (mean age, 69 vs 65.1 years, P<0.023), and had higher rates of previous myocardial infarction (MI), (24.4% vs 8.4%, P<0.0001), congestive heart failure (85.9% vs 73.3%, P=0.012), peripheral vascular disease (16.7% vs 8.5%, P= 0.019), chronic lung disease (26.9% vs 17.1%, P=0.021), and chronic renal disease (35.9% vs 23.1, P=0.007).

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