Heart Failure

Abbott announced its sensor providing hemodynamic-guided management of patients with HF has received an expanded indication from the FDA.

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Adherence to the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension dietary pattern was not associated with reduced risk for incident HF in participants with lower income, but it was in those with higher income, researchers reported.

Placement of an atrial shunt device failed to reduce the rate of HF events or improve health status vs. sham in patients with HF with preserved ejection fraction, according to results of the REDUCE LAP-HF II trial published in The Lancet.

Outcomes among patients with coexisting COPD and heart failure with preserved ejection fraction were largely driven by COPD, with more acute exacerbations than in those with other types of heart failure, researchers reported.

Older women who walked at a fast pace at least 1 hour per week reduced their risk for HF by as much as 34% compared with similar women who walked at a slow pace, according to data published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

FEV1 may play an important role in improving the risk stratification and prevention strategies among individuals with heart failure, researchers reported in Chest.

Among older adults without HF, men and Black participants exhibited worse systolic performance during 5 years of follow-up, putting both groups at heightened risk for HF with reduced ejection fraction, researchers reported.

Biykem Bozkurt, MD, PhD, the Mary and Gordon Cain Chair and Professor of Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, spoke with Healio about results from trials on HF presented at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions.

Allogeneic mesenchymal precursor cells to treat persistent HF with reduced ejection fraction.