Heart Failure

Left ventricular assist devices, which are mechanical heart pumps, are an important treatment for patients with advanced heart failure.

Infections requiring hospitalization were associated with increased risk for future incident heart failure, regardless of infection and HF subtype, according to new data published in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

Glomerular hyperfiltration may increase CVD risks, including myocardial infarction and heart failure, for patients with type 2 diabetes, study data show.

Breast cancer survivors who developed incident myocardial infarction or heart failure exhibited increased risk for adverse oncologic outcomes, according to a population-based cohort study.

Foods advertised during NFL games were typically high in content like fat, sodium and calories, a cross-sectional analysis in JAMA Network Open showed.

Iron deficiency may be linked to non-dialysis-dependent chronic kidney disease and mortality in patients without anemia, according to results of a nationwide cohort study.

Patients with EGFR-mutated non-small cell lung cancer treated with osimertinib experienced more cancer therapy-related cardiac events than those treated with other EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors.

Black individuals in the U.S. with serious illnesses receive disproportionately poor pain management and health care communication, compared with white individuals, a focus group led by the Center to Advance Palliative Care showed.

Among patients with COPD who experienced an exacerbation, the risk for cardiovascular events was highest in the following 2 weeks and stayed elevated more than 1 year after, according to study results.