Tag: Heart Failure
AHA: Wide Variation in Prices of Generic Heart Failure Meds
Patients can spend from $12 to $400 a month to fill prescriptions
AHA: Interatrial Shunt Effective at One Year in Heart Failure
Findings for patients with heart failure with preserved left ventricular ejection fraction
AHA: Hospitalizations Up for Heart Failure in the United States
But length of stay and mortality are decreasing
AHA: LVAD Plus Intensive Drug Tx May Aid Heart Failure Patients
Small study suggests protocol could help avoid need for heart transplantation
Modeling IDs Amount, Type of Data to Predict Heart Failure
Findings show minimum amount and type of data needed to detect prediagnostic heart failure
Ambulatory IV Diuretics Cut Costs in Decompensated Heart Failure
Ambulatory high-dose intravenous diuretic therapy cost saving versus hospitalization for diuretic tx
Heart Failure Care Up, Regardless of Hospital Teaching Status
GWTG-HF shows similar adherence to performance measures at teaching, nonteaching hospitals
Angina Pectoris Linked to Worse HRQoL in Heart Failure
Depressive symptoms, health-related quality of life were worse for patients with angina pectoris
Spironolactone Benefits Exercise Tolerance in HFpEF
Improvements in exercise capacity, anaerobic threshold, and oxygen uptake efficiency
Arrhythmias Not Induced by Caffeine in Heart Failure Patients
Stress test didn't show short-term changes after coffee drinking
