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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). A Study to Determine the Efficacy and Safety of Finerenone on Morbidity and Mortality Among Hospitalized Heart Failure Patients (REDEFINE-HF). 4 Approximately 6.7 million adults in the U.S. NCT 06008197. NCT05047263.

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SGLT-2 Inhibitors Show Mixed Results After Heart Attack

DAIC

However, researchers said the drug may be helpful in reducing heart failure risks, including hospitalization, following a heart attack. To have a 25% to 30% reduction in heart failure hospitalizations is pretty clinically meaningful, but if you put it together with all-cause mortality, it was not a positive study for our primary endpoint.”

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

DAIC

While composite of death and heart failure hospitalizations was not significantly reduced, empagliflozin may help reduce heart failure risks after a heart attack, according to results from the EMPACT-MI trial presented on day one of the American College of Cardiology Scientific Sessions, ACC.24, About 32% had Type 2 diabetes.

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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

Evaluation of these pts results in substantial costs for unnecessary hospitalization and extensive testing. 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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What is wrong with the NHS? Part two.

Dr. Malcolm Kendrick

Anyone with diabetes would be prescribed blood sugar lowering medications. With diabetes, the aim is also to reduce heart attacks and strokes… additionally kidney failure, and amputations, and blindness. People at risk of cardiovascular disease would have their cholesterol levels checked. Then, if high, put on statins.

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Hyperkalemia

EMS 12-Lead

The attending crews were concerned for SVT with corresponding ischemic hyperacute T waves (HATW) and subsequently activated STEMI pre-hospital. ACE inhibitors, or potassium-sparing diuretics), are particularly susceptible. No calcium was administered during pre-hospital transport. 2] But there is also Sinus Tachycardia!