Cold Drives Heart Failure Hospitalizations in Older US Adults
Among US Medicare beneficiaries, colder ambient temperatures were associated with increased heart failure hospitalizations while warmer temperatures were not, and the U-shaped temperature–cardiovascular risk association seen for cardiovascular mortality did not apply to heart failure hospitalizations, according to a time-stratified case-crossover study of 1,517,756 hospitalizations from 996,312 patients (mean age, […]