Severe Infections as a Novel Risk-Enhancing Factor for Incident Heart Failure.
BACKGROUND We examined the relationship between infection-related hospitalization (IRH) and heart failure (HF) in a large clinical health system and assessed whether IRH improved prediction beyond HF risk equations. METHODS We studied 80 880 adults (14 150 with IRH and 66 730 age- and sex-matched comparators) aged ≥1...