Tag: Heart Failure
County-Level Poverty Strongly Tied to Heart Failure Mortality
Poverty linked to heart failure and coronary heart disease mortality; link stronger for heart failure
Decline in Heart Failure Mortality Rates Offset by Comorbidities
Treatments focused only on cardiovascular outcomes insufficient for improving heart failure patient survival
Sacubitril-Valsartan Does Not Impact Aortic Stiffness in HFrEF
But it is linked to improvements in cardiac structure, function including decreases in LVESVI, LVEDVI
LV Hypertrophy Predicts Long-Term Risk for CV Events
Left ventricular hypertrophy stronger predictor than CAC for CHD death, other CV death, heart failure
Poor HIV Control Ups Risk for Sudden Cardiac Death in Heart Failure
Lower CD4 count, nonsuppressed viral load linked to higher risk for sudden cardiac death in HIV with heart failure
Type 2 Diabetes Associated With Poorer Outcomes in Heart Failure
Findings include structural abnormalities in the heart, poorer quality of life with T2DM and HF
Serelaxin Does Not Lower CV Death in Acute Heart Failure
No drop in incidence of death at 180 days or worsening of heart failure seen for hospitalized patients
Genetic Liability to Insomnia Linked to Increased Odds of CVDs
Mendelian randomization analyses revealed greater odds of CAD, heart failure, ischemic stroke
Excess Risk for Diabetes-Linked Heart Failure Greater in Women
Women with type 1, type 2 diabetes have greater excess risk for heart failure versus men
Medicare Advantage Patients Have Higher Readmission Rates
Higher adjusted readmission rates seen for AMI, CHF, pneumonia with Medicare Advantage
