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

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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.

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SGLT-2 Inhibitors Show Mixed Results After Heart Attack

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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

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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, 24, being held in Atlanta, GA.