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FDA Accepts, Grants Priority Review Designation for Bayer's msNRA for Patients with Heart Failure

DAIC

2 Most are balancing multiple comorbidities, such as obesity, diabetes, hypertension and chronic kidney disease (CKD). In fact, a 2024 report on heart failure trends and outcomes published in the Journal of Cardiac Failure showed that in patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, 5-year mortality was 75.7%.

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SGLT-2 Inhibitors Show Mixed Results After Heart Attack

DAIC

SGLT-2 inhibitors were initially approved to treat Type 2 diabetes by lowering blood sugar. About 32% had Type 2 diabetes. This finding is completely consistent in both direction and magnitude with other studies of SGLT-2 inhibitors in populations with diabetes and chronic kidney disease.”

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EMPACT-MI Trial Outcomes Reported at ACC24: SGLT-2 Inhibitors Show Mixed Results After Heart Attack

DAIC

SGLT-2 inhibitors were initially approved to treat Type 2 diabetes by lowering blood sugar. About 32% had Type 2 diabetes. This finding is completely consistent in both direction and magnitude with other studies of SGLT-2 inhibitors in populations with diabetes and chronic kidney disease.”

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Abstract 4142012: Ectasias of Multiple Coronary Arteries and a Coronary Cameral Fistula Between Right Coronary Artery and Coronary Sinus

Circulation

Circulation, Volume 150, Issue Suppl_1 , Page A4142012-A4142012, November 12, 2024. Case Description:A 59-year-old male with history of hypertension, diabetes, Hashimoto’s thyroiditis presented with new, progressive shortness of breath. No murmur or extra heart sound were heard, and the lung sounds were normal.

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Abstract 4134796: Safety of over 1000 consecutive, selected low risk patients with accelerated discharge from a chest pain unit with early generation cardiac troponin use, no cardiac functional or anatomic testing and no clinical risk scores

Circulation

Circulation, Volume 150, Issue Suppl_1 , Page A4134796-A4134796, November 12, 2024. Women received more discharge cardiac medications than men: antiplatelet agents, statins, beta blockers, ACE inhibitors, angiotensin II blockers, calcium channel blockers, and nitrates (p=0.0002 - 0.04).Follow-up

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Understanding the failings of yesterday to improve the outcomes of tomorrow: a CardioRenal story

The British Journal of Cardiology

2–4 The studies will be well-known to nephrologists and demonstrated that angiotensin-receptor blockers (ARBs) had anti-proteinuric effects and/or slowed the decline of kidney function in patients with diabetic kidney disease. Clinicians and health care systems must be encouraged to make use of these treatments.”