Heart Failure

Long-term effects of sodium restriction on clinical outcomes in patients with HF.

A new health initiative will provide tailored resources for women with HF, particularly Black and Latina women, as part of an effort to reduce race and sex disparities in treatment and outcomes, according to an industry press release.

BOSTON — In this video from the National Kidney Foundation Spring Clinical Meetings, Joseph A. Vassalotti, MD, reviews results from late-breaking clinical trials.

Swedish men diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in youth had higher all-cause and cardiovascular mortality risks compared with those without diabetes, and cognitive ability did not influence the associations, according to study data.

In the phase 2 SEISMiC trial, istaroxime met its primary endpoint of improving systolic BP profile at 6 hours in patients with cardiogenic shock, according to the topline results announced by Windtree Therapeutics.

In a cohort of patients with type 2 diabetes treated with simvastatin, fenofibrate decreased the composite of heart failure hospitalizations or cardiovascular mortality, according to an analysis of the ACCORD Lipid trial.

In this video, David E. Lanfear, MD, MS, FHFSA, advanced HF specialist and program director of the Advanced Heart Failure Fellowship at the Henry Ford Health System in Detroit, discusses the new HF guidelines presented at the American College of Cardiology Scientific Session.

Women reporting a history of infertility had an almost 20% increased risk for developing HF during 15 years of follow-up, particularly HF with preserved ejection fraction, according to an analysis of Women’s Health Initiative data.

Combined use of an SGLT2 inhibitor and GLP-1 receptor agonist is associated with reduced odds for major adverse cardiac and cerebrovascular events and heart failure in adults with type 2 diabetes, according to study findings.

The word “candidate” is often used when determining whether a patient with HF will benefit from a particular therapy, but an editorial in the Journal of Cardiac Failure states the term may be too judgmental.