Heart Failure

Adults with HF on optimized guideline-directed medical therapy had improvements in quality of life measures and functional status after participating in a yoga therapy program for 1 year, researchers reported.

Pregnancy brings risks for serious or even fatal complications for people of reproductive age with HF, and obstetricians and cardiologists should work together to ensure those risks are minimized, according to a new review.

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Among patients hospitalized with SARS-CoV-2 community-acquired pneumonia, those with vs. without cardiovascular complications had a heightened mortality rate, according to results published in CHEST.

DANA POINT, Calif. — Clinicians must use a tailored approach when treating women with HF, who have risk factors, biomarkers and manifestations of disease that are often distinctly different from men, according to a speaker.

Chinese adults with HF and dyskalemia were less likely to receive renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system inhibitors than patients with normokalemia, and those with hyperkalemia were more likely to experience worsening HF or CV death.

HOUSTON — SGLT2 inhibitors should be the first choice of therapy for adults with type 2 diabetes and heart failure, according to two speakers at the Association of Diabetes Care and Education Specialists annual meeting.

In a post hoc analysis of SOLOIST-WHF, patients with type 2 diabetes hospitalized for worsening HF had lower rates of CV death and HF rehospitalization if they received sotagliflozin on or before discharge than if they did not.

A large analysis of UK Biobank data indicated no increased CV risk from birth control and even suggested a potential cardioprotective effect from oral contraceptive use, researchers reported.