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Severe Maternal Grief Associated with Increased Risk of Heart Failure in Child

DAIC

In a new study published in JACC: Heart Failure , maternal loss of a partner or child shortly before or during pregnancy was found to be associated with increased risk of heart failure up to middle-age in the child. According to the World Heart Federation, more than 64 million people worldwide have heart failure.

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AskBio Receives FDA Fast Track Designation for AB-1002 Investigational Gene Therapy Program in Congestive Heart Failure

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Inhibiting the function of this protein, which is linked to congestive heart failure (CHF), could potentially lead to a therapeutic effect on the heart.1,2 Inhibiting the function of this protein, which is linked to congestive heart failure (CHF), could potentially lead to a therapeutic effect on the heart.1,2

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Use of natriuretic peptides and echocardiography for diagnosing heart failure

European Journal of Heart Failure

Diagrammatic illustration of trends of incident heart failure diagnosis and diagnostic testing in the US from 2016 to 2019 stratified by inpatient and outpatient setting. However, real-world utilization of these diagnostic tests in the US is not known.

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Impact of Advanced Therapy Centers on Characteristics and Outcomes of Heart Failure Admissions

Circulation: Heart Failure

Circulation: Heart Failure, Ahead of Print. Centers performing at least 1 heart transplant or left ventricular assist device were classified as ATCs. Patient characteristics, outcomes, and procedural volume were compared among 3 cohorts: admissions to non-ATCs, admissions to ATCs, and transfers to ATCs.

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Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis Early Heart Failure Study: Rationale, Design, and Baseline Characteristics

Circulation: Heart Failure

Circulation: Heart Failure, Ahead of Print. Background:Current prevalence estimates of heart failure (HF) are primarily based on self-report or HF hospitalizations. Results:Median age was 73 (25th–75th percentile 67–81) years, 53.2% were female, 25.6% were Black, 12.8% were Chinese, and 40.0% were White.

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Could Statins Be The Next Breakthrough HFpEF Treatment?

CardiacWire

Statins are one of the most-prescribed drug classes in the world, but there’s still little data on their heart failure benefits, especially for HFpEF patients. The two major RCTs evaluating statins as a heart failure treatment (CORONA and GISSI-HF) didn’t show significant benefits, although they mainly focused on HFrEF patients.

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Incremental value of mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists in patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction treated with sacubitril/valsartan

Open Heart

Aims We investigated the incremental advantage in terms of N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) reduction in patients affected by heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) treated with sacubitril/valsartan (S/V) and mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists (MRA) versus patients treated with S/V only.