Acute decompensated heart failure (SPRINT component)

A sudden worsening of heart failure. In SPRINT it is one of the five kinds of event that made up the primary combined outcome.

Also called Heart failure

Outcome
In this atlas

Overview

Technical summary

One of the five components of cardio:outcome-sprint-primary-composite, worded as the paper's Methods words it. The paper's main text gives no definition and points to its Supplementary Appendix, which this atlas has not read. Table 2 of the paper and the registry's primary outcome measure use the shorter wording heart failure, which is kept as an alias.

Definition

Acute decompensated heart failure, as the SPRINT paper's Methods names it among the primary outcome events. The trial's detailed definition is in the paper's Supplementary Appendix, which this atlas has not read.

Unit: patients

Claims and evidence

No claims are published for this outcome yet.

Record details

Record id: cardio:outcome-sprint-acute-decompensated-heart-failure
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