Researchers from the University of Queensland have confirmed an association between winter months and an increase in heart failure. Working with a team of researchers from the Departments of Clinical Pharmacology and Cardiology at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, Sally Inglis, a PhD student at the University of Queensland, examined the seasonal differences in hospital admissions and deaths in 2961 patients with chronic heart failure residing in South Australia over the period July 1994 to June 2004.

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