The Prospective Association Between Plasma Concentrations of Cellular Growth Factors and Risk of Heart Failure Mortality in Japanese Population.

Ehab Salah Eshak Koutatsu Maruyama Hiroyasu Iso Akiko Tamakoshi

Published in: Journal of epidemiology (2018)

Higher serum concentrations of IGF-II were associated with lower mortality from heart failure, which might suggest a possible role of IGF-II in the occurrence or prognosis of heart failure.

Keyphrases

heart failure
left ventricular
cardiovascular events
cardiac resynchronization therapy
acute heart failure
atrial fibrillation
risk assessment
risk factors
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cardiovascular disease
signaling pathway