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Focus on Heart Failure | Ironclad: The Treatment of Iron Deficiency in Heart Failure

American College of Cardiology

Iron deficiency (ID) is a common comorbidity among patients with heart failure (HF), and it is associated with reduced exercise tolerance and quality of life and serves as a marker of increased risk of hospitalizations and mortality.

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Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators for Primary Prevention During or Early Following Hospitalization? A Time to Pause, Reflect and Exercise Sound Clinical Judgement.

HeartRhythm

Current guidelines recommend ICD implantation in individuals with symptomatic heart failure (HF) and reduced left ventricular ejection fraction (HFrEF) if they have been receiving optimal guideline directed medical therapy for at least 3-6 months and who are expected to have survival greater than one year with meaningful quality of life (1).

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Exercise?based cardiac rehabilitation for adults with heart failure – 2023 Cochrane systematic review and meta?analysis

European Journal of Heart Failure

This 2023 Cochrane review of 60 randomized trials in 8728 heart failure patients, confirms the benefits of participation in exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation (ExCR), including reduced risk of hospitalization and a clinically meaningful improvement in health-related quality of life. 1.01, MLWHF: −9.59, 95% CI −17.48

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New Treatment in Pipeline for Patients with Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

DAIC

In about 70 percent of cases, patients with HCM experience obstruction to blood flow, which increases pressures in the heart and can lead to chest pain, shortness of breath and reduced exercise capacity. All participants were receiving background medical therapy and had reduced exercise capacity.

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Cardiac rehabilitation for heart failure and atrial fibrillation: a propensity- matched study

Open Heart

Individuals with HF and AF may have a reduced functional capacity and quality of life (QoL) which leads to hospital admission and burden on clinical services. Evidence supported the effect of exercise training in individuals with HF. Background Atrial fibrillation (AF) is common in individuals with heart failure (HF).

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Study on the intervention effect of HCH integrated SMG health management model on community high-risk group of cardiovascular disease

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

ObjectiveThis study aimed to evaluate the integration of the Hospital-Community-Home (HCH) model with the Self-Mutual-Group (SMG) health management model for high-risk populations with cardiovascular disease in the Yuhua community of Shijiazhuang city.

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Patient Enrollment Commenced in Pivotal Phase 3 Trial of CardiAMP Cell Therapy for the Treatment of Ischemic Heart Failure

DAIC

BioCardia previously confirmed alignment with the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on the design of the 250-patient randomized, controlled trial and the minimum of 12-month primary composite endpoint of all cause death, reduction in major adverse cardiovascular events, and improvement in quality of life.