Heart Failure
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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.
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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...
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Semaglutide win in HFpEF with obesity regardless of ejection fraction: STEP-HFpEF
It remains unknown, however, “whether the improvement in health status, functional status, and reduced inflammation” will translate to reduced...
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The how and why of quad therapy in reduced-EF heart failure
“Yet, when we look at their actual implementation in clinical practice, we’ve seen this slow and variable uptake.”