Tag: Heart Failure
No Drop in All-Cause Mortality With ICD in Systolic Heart Failure
Significantly lower risk of sudden cardiac death for patients with ICD versus usual clinical care
CA-125 Strategy Cuts Death, Readmission in Heart Failure
Effect mainly driven by reduction in rate of rehospitalizations, but not mortality
Liraglutide Not Beneficial in Advanced Heart Failure
No difference in heart function, disease stability or in rates of mortality, rehospitalization
Hospitalizations for Heart Failure With Preserved EF Common
Patients are older, more often female, more likely to have comorbidities than patients with HFrEF
Higher Education Linked to Reduced Post-MI Heart Failure
Link between higher levels of education and lower risk of heart failure similar in men, women
Post-MI Heart Failure Linked to Increased Cancer Risk
However, cancer mortality rates similar for those with heart failure and those without
Escitalopram Not Beneficial for Heart Failure Patients
Depression in heart failure may not be same depression patients without heart failure experience
Dropping Troponin Test May Up Number of Donor Hearts Available
Results of test don't seem to alter survival rates, even five years after transplant
Three-Drug Tx Ups Survival in Light-Chain Amyloidosis
Bortezomib, dexamethasone, alkylating agent treatment ups survival for patients with heart failure
Flu Vaccine Can Help Keep Heart Failure Patients Out of Hospital
Vaccination tied with lower risk of hospitalization for cardiovascular diseases, respiratory infections
