Heidi T. May MSPH, et al. - Although increased cholesterol levels predict mortality in patients with coronary artery disease, it is unclear whether hypercholesterolemia is associated with adverse survival in patients with heart failure. A cohort of subjects derived from the Intermountain Heart Collaborative Study Registry (1993 to 2003) who had ejection fractions <=40% or clinical diagnoses of heart failure and long-term follow-up for death were studied (n = 1,646)
