Involvement of BAG3 and HSPB7 loci in various etiologies of systolic heart failure: Results of a European collaboration assembling more than 2000 patients

S Garnier, C Hengstenberg… - International …, 2015 - internationaljournalofcardiology.com
Heart failure (HF), a major public health burden affecting 2% of industrialized populations, is
a syndrome resulting from structural or functional myocardial impairment leading to
inadequate cardiac output to meet the body's metabolic demands [1]. Half of HF patients
present systolic dysfunction (systolic-HF), also called reduced ejection fraction (HF-REF), a
disease related to various causes including idiopathic