Heart Failure
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Bariatric surgery still best option for some with obesity
“Sometimes we might need to go straight to surgery instead of going through medications first, because it may be the most effective and evidence-...
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Cardiologists, patients can talk drug costs
A pilot study shows that an intervention that gives physicians and patients information on out-of-pocket costs for heart failure drugs can help...
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Smartphone app detects voice quality changes indicating worsening heart failure
Early warnings were generated 24-26 days before heart failure events.
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Albuminuria reduction fuels finerenone’s kidney benefits
Mediation analyses of finerenone trial data show most of the drug’s kidney benefit and a third of its CVD benefit comes from cutting albuminuria...
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Dropping aspirin cuts bleeding in LVAD patients: ARIES-HM3
“We’ve always thought that somehow aspirin prevents stroke and prevents clotting and that it’s anti-inflammatory, and what we found in ARIES was...
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Women have worse outcomes in cardiogenic shock
“Our decision-making around women seems to be different to that around men. I think this paper should start to trigger more awareness of that.”
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Aprocitentan reduces resistant hypertension in CKD
Aprocitentan, a novel dual endothelin antagonist, showed antihypertensive efficacy and manageable safety in people with chronic kidney disease.
From the Journals
Durable LVAD for advanced HF still underutilized
“Many cardiologists are not aware of the amazing survival improvement with modern LVAD technology, and patients are under-referred.”
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Trials say start sacubitril-valsartan in hospital in HF with ‘below normal’ LVEF
The risk-reduction benefit reached 41% among the overwhelming majority of patients with a left ventricular ejection fraction.
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Hopeful insights, no overall HFpEF gains from splanchnic nerve ablation: REBALANCE-HF
The trial’s potential-responder cohort “seemed able to augment cardiac output in response to stress” and to “maintain or augment their orthostatic...
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Spreading out daily meals and snacks may boost heart failure survival
A daily eating window of 11 or more hours, compared with less than 11 hours, corresponded to a greater than 40% drop in risk for CV mortality over...