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Added: 9 months ago Source:  Radcliffe Cardiology
AUTHOR: Jennifer ThomasThe long-standing debate over the benefits of heart rate (HR)-lowering drug treatment, particularly in patients with hypertension, has been addressed in a new large-scale meta-analysis. The findings, published in the European Heart Journal, suggest that the advantages of reducing HR are highly dependent on the patient's underlying clinical condition, with significant… View more
Added: 1 month ago Source:  Cardiac Failure Review Journal
Delays in diagnosis and treatment for patients with suspected heart failure (HF) in the community can lead to preventable hospitalisations and deaths. A new modelling study by Dr Kieran Docherty and colleagues suggests that early initiation of disease-modifying therapies in select patients at the time of an elevated natriuretic peptide test could significantly reduce these adverse outcomes… View more
Author(s): Diana Hui Ping Foo Added: 11 months ago
ESC HF 25 - Findings from Heart2Miss suggest a hub-and-spoke model for early heart failure detection can detect patients with pre-HF and HF who were previously undiagnosed, can reduce tertiary center overload and improve novice performance.Dr Diana Foo (Sarawak General Hospital, Kuching, MY) discusses the findings from the Heart2Miss study, investigating a decentralised, community-based, rapid,… View more
Author(s): Ankeet Bhatt Added: 10 months ago
ESC HF 25 - Secondary analysis of the FINEARTS-HF study shows finerenone treatment favourably influenced the risk of early heart failure readmission.Dr Ankeet Bhatt (Kaiser Permanante San Francisco Medical Center, San Francisco, US) discusses findings from the prespecified secondary analysis of the FINEARTS-HF trial (NCT04435626; Bayer). The placebo-controlled primary analysis investigated the… View more
Added: 1 month ago Source:  Cardiac Failure Review
Single-pill low-dose combination (LDC) therapy is an emerging strategy for improving blood pressure (BP) control in patients with hypertension.¹ Two new phase III trials, HM-APOLLO-301 and HM-APOLLO-302, have evaluated the efficacy and safety of an ultra-low-dose triple combination pill compared with standard-dose monotherapy as an initial treatment for mild-to-moderate hypertension… View more