Zhong Y, et al. - Researchers aimed to examine whether stroke distance was correlated with 5-year all-cause mortality, independently of other echocardiography variables, and that stroke distance had added long-term prognostic value. In elderly patients hospitalized with heart failure, stroke distance was associated with long-term mortality, independently of other known echocardiographic prognostic factors. Left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) became associated with mortality only when stroke distance was excluded from analysis. As per the outcomes, stroke distance had additive prognostic value.