The influence of renal function on clinical outcome and response to beta-blockade in systolic heart failure: insights from Metoprolol CR/XL Randomized Intervention Trial in Chronic HF (MERIT-HF).

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Published in J Card Fail on December 23, 2008

Authors

Jalal K Ghali1, John Wikstrand, Dirk J Van Veldhuisen, Björn Fagerberg, Sidney Goldstein, Ake Hjalmarson, Peter Johansson, John Kjekshus, Lis Ohlsson, Ola Samuelsson, Finn Waagstein, Hans Wedel, MERIT-HF Study Group

Author Affiliations

1: Detroit Medical Center, Detroit, Michigan, USA.

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