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Heart failure and stroke are a lethal combination

Heart failure and stroke has been identified as a lethal combination, with heart failure patients how have had previous strokes having greater risks of depression, hospitalisation and death than those without a history of stroke.

Peter Sayer, Alison Bloomer, Eve Batt report from EuroHeartCare 2017. This study was conducted to identify differences in the psychosocial and behavioural characteristics and outcomes between heart failure patients with and without comorbid stroke. The study was a secondary analysis of the Coordinating study evaluating Outcomes of Advising and Counselling in Heart failure (COACH) study, a randomised controlled trial conducted at 17 centres in the Netherlands. The study included 1,023 patients aged over 18 years who were hospitalised for heart failure. Of these, 105 had a previous stroke and 918 did not. To be eligible for the study, patients had

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