Health Status

Patients with minimally symptomatic status who underwent transcatheter aortic valve replacement were more likely to survive with good health status at 1 year than more symptomatic patients, researchers reported.

Health status improved for men and women after nonprimary PCI, but researchers observed more limited improvement among women, with worse health status compared with men at 6 weeks and 9 months after PCI.

Maintenance treatment with nebulized revefenacin improves the health status of patients with moderate to very severe COPD, especially in women, according to a subgroup analysis of two phase 3 studies.

Health care visits may serve as important opportunities for detecting older adults at risk for mistreatment, according to results of a longitudinal, population-based cohort study published in JAMA Network Open.

The benefits of empagliflozin compared with placebo for HF with reduced ejection fraction occurred regardless of health status at baseline, according to a secondary analysis of the EMPEROR-Reduced trial.

Mental and physical health was worse among recently divorced adults compared with the general population, according to research published in Frontiers in Psychology.

Health status was similar at 5 years in patients who had transcatheter aortic valve replacement compared with those who had surgical AVR, although there was a short-term health status benefit in the TAVR group, researchers reported.

Positive changes in disease-specific health status as soon as 1 month after transcatheter mitral valve repair were strongly linked to reduced long-term risk for HF hospitalization or death, according to a new analysis of the COAPT trial presented at the American College of Cardiology Scientific Session.