What do patients with heart failure die from? A single assassin or a conspiracy?

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Adjudication of Hospitalizations and Deaths in the IRONMAN Trial of Intravenous Iron for Heart Failure.Journal of the American College of Cardiology · 2024
   Trial
2. Physical rehabilitation for older patients with acute HFpEF (REHAB-HFpEF) trial: Design and rationale.American heart journal · 2026
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3. A transformer-based survival model for prediction of all-cause mortality in patients with heart failure: a multi-cohort study.NPJ digital medicine · 2026
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4. The Prognostic Role of Frailty and Its Recognition With Simple FRAIL and Fried Frailty Questionnaires in Advanced Cancer Patients.Journal of cachexia, sarcopenia and muscle · 2025
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5. Cancer as an Individual Risk Factor for Heart Failure: A Review of Literature.Cureus · 2024
   Review
6. Predictors of lower exercise capacity in patients with cancer.Scientific reports · 2023
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7. Inflammatory pathways in heart failure with preserved left ventricular ejection fraction: implications for future interventions.Cardiovascular research · 2023
   Review
8. Mechanisms and Drug Intervention for Doxorubicin-Induced Cardiotoxicity Based on Mitochondrial Bioenergetics.Oxidative medicine and cellular longevity · 2022
   Review
9. Advanced cancer is also a heart failure syndrome: a hypothesis.Journal of cachexia, sarcopenia and muscle · 2021
   Review
10. Spontaneous Non-Sustained Ventricular Tachycardia and Premature Ventricular Contractions and Their Prognostic Relevance in Patients with Cancer in Routine Care.Cancers · 2021
    Article
11. [Tumor effects on the heart and circulation].Der Internist · 2020
    Review

Corrections and comments

• Comment on
  Trends in modes of death in heart failure over the last two decades: less sudden death but cancer deaths on the rise.2019

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Funding

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Abstract

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