The Effect of Digoxin on Mortality and Morbidity in Patients with Heart Failure

Digitalis Investigation Group, The

doi:10.1056/nejm199702203360801

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The Effect of Digoxin on Mortality and Morbidity in Patients with Heart Failure

Published in New England Journal of Medicine • Feb 20, 1997

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The Digitalis Investigation Group

Abstract

BACKGROUND: The role of cardiac glycosides in treating patients with chronic heart failure and normal sinus rhythm remains controversial. We studied the effect of digoxin on mortality and hospitalization in a randomized, double-blind clinical trial. METHODS: In the main trial, patients with a left v...

Subject

Digoxin

Medicine

Heart failure

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