Clinical outcomes of cardiac resynchronization therapy with and without a defibrillator in elderly patients with heart failure.

A competing risks model of cardiac admissions in this propensity‐score matched group suggested a trend towards increased cardiac hospitalisation in CRT‐D patients, with divergence of the curves by 1 year; however, this did not reach statistical significance (Figure 2 B; P = 0.20). 3.5 Univariable and multivariable predictors of mortality Chronic kidney disease (CKD) was associated with increased mortality (HR 2.34, CI 1.20‐4.59, P = 0.013), while ischaemic cardiomyopathy appeared to be protective (HR 0.48, CI 0.24‐0.95, P = 0.034).

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