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Risk stratification in hospitalized heart failure patients: do the RIGHT thing!

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A. Salzano received research grant support from Cardiopath, UniNA and Compagnia di San Paolo, as part of the Programme STAR. A. M. Marra was supported by an institutional grant from Italian Healthcare Ministry (Ricerca Finalizzata for young researchers) (Project no. GR-2016-02364727).

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  1. IRCCS SDN, Via Gianturco 113, 80142, Naples, Italy

    Alberto Maria Marra

  2. Department of Neuroscience, Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri IRCCS, Milan, Italy

    Marco Proietti

  3. Liverpool Centre for Cardiovascular Science, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK

    Marco Proietti

  4. Cardiology Unit, “Antonio Cardarelli” Hospital, Naples, Italy

    Eduardo Bossone

  5. Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre, Glenfield Hospital, University of Leicester, Groby Road, Leicester, LE3 9QP, UK

    Andrea Salzano & Antonio Cittadini

  6. Department of Translational Medical Sciences, “Federico II” University, Naples, Italy

    Marco Proietti, Eduardo Bossone, Andrea Salzano & Antonio Cittadini

  7. Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Biomedical Materials (C.R.I.B.), Federico II” University, Naples, Italy

    Antonio Cittadini

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Marra, A.M., Proietti, M., Bossone, E. et al. Risk stratification in hospitalized heart failure patients: do the RIGHT thing!. Intern Emerg Med 14, 1021–1023 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11739-019-02121-4

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