Defibrillators may have little benefit for older people with comorbidities

Older people with comorbidities and those with multiple hospital admissions related to heart failure are unlikely to receive a meaningful survival benefit from implanted defibrillators, found a study in CMAJ by researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts http://www.cmaj.ca/press/pg611.pdf.

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<p><a href="http://www.physorg.com/news156449760.html">Defibrillators may have little benefit for older people with comorbidities</a></p> <p>Older people with comorbidities and those with multiple hospital admissions related to heart failure are unlikely to receive a meaningful survival benefit from implanted defibrillators, found a study in <I>CMAJ</I> by researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts <A HREF="http://www.cmaj.ca/press/pg611.pdf">http://www.cmaj.ca/press/pg611.pdf</A>.</p>