Tag: Heart Failure
Hospitals Caring for Mostly Black Patients Provide Quality Heart Failure Care
No significant within-hospital differences seen for quality for Black patients versus White patients
Greater Adiposity Linked to Worse Outcomes in Patients With HFrEF
No evidence seen for 'obesity-survival paradox' when waist-to-height measure was used instead of BMI
ACC: Overly Restrictive Sodium Harmful in Heart Failure
Risk for in-hospital mortality increased for individuals with heart failure in low dietary sodium group versus usual care
Enlarged Heart Tied to Worse Chronic Kidney Disease Outcomes
Cardiothoracic ratio shows prognostic value for development of end-stage kidney disease and death
Accelerated Pacing Improves Quality of Life in HFpEF Patients
Improvement seen in health-related quality of life, NT-proBNP levels, activity levels, and device-detected atrial fibrillation
Social Isolation, Loneliness Increase Risk for New Heart Failure
Loneliness still increases risk even if individual is not socially isolated
Rural Residence Tied to Higher Risk for Heart Failure for Women, Black Men
Findings persist after adjusting for cardiovascular risk factors and socioeconomic status
Mortality Similar With Torsemide, Furosemide for Patients Hospitalized With Heart Failure
No significant difference seen in all-cause mortality or all-cause hospitalization over 12 months
Bone Scintigraphy Can Help ID Cardiac Amyloidosis
Mortality, cardiovascular death, heart failure hospitalization were all independently predicted by 99mTc-DPD
Social Frailty Linked to Worse Outcomes for Elderly Heart Failure Patients
Social frailty linked to composite of all-cause death, cardiovascular events among elderly hospitalized heart failure patients
