Yan Zhang
University of Alabama at Birmingham
24 Papers
85 Citations
Yan Zhang is an academic researcher from University of Alabama at Birmingham. The author has contributed to research in topics: Heart failure & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 24 publications. Previous affiliations of Yan Zhang include Medtronic plc.
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Papers
Impairment of activities of daily living and incident heart failure in community‐dwelling older adults
C. Barrett Bowling,C. Barrett Bowling,Gregg C. Fonarow,Kanan Patel,Yan Zhang,Margaret A. Feller,Xuemei Sui,Steven N. Blair,Kannayiram Alagiakrishnan,Inmaculada Aban,Thomas E. Love,Richard M. Allman,Richard M. Allman,Ali Ahmed,Ali Ahmed +14 more
TL;DR: The association between IADL impairment and incident heart failure in community‐dwelling older adults is examined and it is found that the impairment may adversely affect health in older adults.
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Design and rationale of studies of neurohormonal blockade and outcomes in diastolic heart failure using OPTIMIZE-HF registry linked to Medicare data
Yan Zhang,Meredith L. Kilgore,Tarun Arora,Marjan Mujib,O. James Ekundayo,O. James Ekundayo,Inmaculada Aban,Margaret A. Feller,Ravi V. Desai,Thomas E. Love,Richard M. Allman,Richard M. Allman,Gregg C. Fonarow,Ali Ahmed,Ali Ahmed +14 more
TL;DR: The assembled Medicare-linked OPTIMIZE-HF cohort of Medicare beneficiaries with HF-PEF with long-term outcomes data will provide unique opportunities to study clinical effectivenss of various neurohormonal antagonists with outcomes in HF- PEF using propensity-matched designs that allow outcome-blinded assembly of balanced cohorts, a key feature of randomized clinical trials.
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Clinical Effectiveness of CRT and ICD Therapy in Heart Failure Patients by Racial/Ethnic Classification: Insights From the IMPROVE HF Registry
Boback Ziaeian,Yan Zhang,Nancy M. Albert,Anne B. Curtis,Mihai Gheorghiade,J. Thomas Heywood,Mandeep R. Mehra,Christopher M. O'Connor,Dwight Reynolds,Mary Norine Walsh,Clyde W. Yancy,Gregg C. Fonarow +11 more
TL;DR: The use of guideline-directed CRT and ICD therapy was associated with reduced 24-month mortality without significant interaction by racial/ethnic group and device therapies should be offered to eligible heart failure patients, without modification based on race/ethnicity.
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Effect of Warfarin on Outcomes in Septuagenarian Patients With Atrial Fibrillation
Brita Roy,Ravi V. Desai,Marjan Mujib,Andrew E. Epstein,Andrew E. Epstein,Yan Zhang,Jason L. Guichard,Linda G. Jones,Linda G. Jones,Margaret A. Feller,Mustafa I. Ahmed,Inmaculada Aban,Thomas E. Love,Raynald Levesque,Michel White,Wilbert S. Aronow,Gregg C. Fonarow,Ali Ahmed,Ali Ahmed +18 more
TL;DR: In conclusion, warfarin use was associated with decreased mortality in septuagenarian patients with AF but had no association with hospitalization or major bleeding.
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Heart failure with systolic dysfunction complicating acute myocardial infarction - differential outcomes but similar eplerenone efficacy by ST-segment or non-ST-segment elevation: A post hoc substudy of the EPHESUS trial.
Sylvain Carillo,Yan Zhang,Renaud Fay,Michael Angioi,John Vincent,Santosh C. Sutradhor,Ali Ahmed,Bertram Pitt,Faiez Zannad +8 more
TL;DR: In patients with acute systolic HF complicating AMI, eplerenone improves outcomes equally in STEMI and NSTEMI patients.
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