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The use of remote patient monitoring to assess clinical status changes in patients with heart failure has increased in the hope that early intervention will reduce morbidity. Although weight monitoring plays an important role in many such systems and is recommended in HF practice guidelines, how weight changes correlate with subsequent hospitalization for HF has not been established. Investigators conducted a nested case-control study in a cohort of patients with HF who were on a home-monitoring system to compare patterns of weight change in 134 patients hospitalized for HF with patterns in matched controls who were not hospitalized.
The cases and controls were similar with respect to most reported baseline characteristics (mean age, 74 year…