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HF Patients Overestimate Their Life Expectancy
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Title HF Patients Overestimate Their Life Expectancy
Url http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/575542?src=rss
Description A new study has shown that patients with heart failure overestimate their own life expectancy by around 40% compared with HF-model–based predictions for survival. Heartwire
Category Articles > Cardiology
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Date Jun 6, 2008
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