Aims The epidemiology of the five stages of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in systolic heart failure (HF) patients has predominantly been described in hospitalized White patients, with little known ...

The adjusted HR of death for patients with CKD was 1.29 (95% CI 0.81–2.05), P = 0.27. When each stage of CKD was evaluated individually in the multivariate model, we found a graded increase in ...