Prediction of Incident Heart Failure in General Practice The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study

Received September 17, 2011; accepted May 1, 2012. From the Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC (S.K.A., L.E.C., P.P.C., M.H., M.Q., W.D.R., G.H.); Baylor College of Medicine and Methodist DeBakey Heart and Vascular Center, Houston, TX (C.M.B., R.C.H.); the Departments of Epidemiology and Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (B.A., S.D.R.); the Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC (A.G.B.); the Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (A.R.F.); the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD (H.N.); and the Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (E.S.). The online-only Data Supplement is available in this article at http://circheartfailure.ahajournals.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1161/ CIRCHEARTFAILURE.111.964841/-/DC1. Correspondence to Gerardo Heiss, MD, Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, 137 E Franklin Street, Suite 400, Chapel Hill, NC 27514. E-mail gerardo_heiss@unc.edu. © 2012 American Heart Association, Inc.