HF/Transplantation News

PHILADELPHIA — In this Healio video exclusive, Deepak L. Bhatt, MD, MPH, discusses two hot topics in cardiometabolic medicine: icosapent ethyl and sotagliflozin.

PHILADELPHIA — Early, cost-effective screening may predict and prevent incident heart failure events for patients with diabetes and no prior heart disease, a speaker reported.

Multidisciplinary experts from across cardiometabolic subspecialties will gather again to showcase the latest clinical research at the Heart in Diabetes CME Conference.

Much of the mortality in rheumatic heart disease was attributable to heart failure, and was significantly reduced by interventional treatment, which may stand as a barrier to improving mortality in lower-income countries, data show.

Return-to-play considerations and CVD risks of people who perform under life-threatening conditions were among the key sports cardiology topics at the American College of Cardiology Scientific Session in April in Atlanta.

Due to demographic changes and a rise in risk factors, the prevalence and economic burden of heart disease and stroke in the United States are expected to increase dramatically by 2050, according to the American Heart Association.

COVID-19 vaccination decreased the risk for CV events, hospitalization and death among patients with HF, according to a poster presented at the European Society of Cardiology’s Heart Failure 2024 meeting.

In a study of Medicare beneficiaries, researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital found that 6% of patients treated for heart failure progressed to dialysis within 1 year after hospitalization.

A common cardiac amyloidosis-causing gene believed to be present in around 3% of the Black U.S. population is associated with increased risk for HF hospitalization and death, which increases with age, a speaker reported.

Renin-angiotensin system blockade conferred similar mortality benefits for Black vs. non-Black patients with HF, and despite less benefit for hospitalization for Black patients, absolute benefit was comparable, researchers reported.