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Medicine’s Avirup Guha discusses how infection during hospitalization for cardiovascular condition could result in higher risk for death

Infection during CV hospital stays tied to higher costs, greater death risk

TCTMDAvirup Guha, clinical assistant professor of medicine, discussed research he was a lead author on that found contracting an infection while hospitalized for a cardiovascular condition puts a patient at a higher risk for death.