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Heart failure services from the community perspective in the UK: a cross-sectional survey

The British Journal of Cardiology

Community services were primarily led by a HF specialist nurse (HFSN), with a median of 1.25 cardiology consultants with HF training, and a variety of other nurses and support workers. Median wait time was 20 days, with substantially longer waits in many areas. All services accepted referrals from multiple sources.

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Rewriting the heart failure pillars toward less burdensome heart failure care pathways

The British Journal of Cardiology

At the Association of Cardiovascular Nursing & Allied Professions conference in June, Professor Tiny Jaarsma called for a pillar of self-care to be added to heart failure (HF) care guidelines. 1 Taylor et al. 2 agree that HF care needs an additional pillar and suggest cardiac rehabilitation.

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Expert Perspective: The Obesity Paradox with Salvatore Carbone, PhD

Cardiometabolic Health Congress

4] More recently, at least at the epidemiologic level, the obesity paradox has been confirmed in both heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) and heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF), but also in those with coronary heart disease. [5, Carbone, Salvatore, et al. Future Cardiology 13.5

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