Heart Failure: News

• Statins, Vitamin D, and Exercise in Older Adults Mengru Wang, MD, reviews several recently published articles and guidelines relevant to the care of older adults in primary care.
  MDedge News, July 26, 2024
• Cardiovascular Outcomes Better With Home Hemodialysis Home hemodialysis was linked to reduced cardiovascular risks vs peritoneal dialysis in a large study, but key caveats were noted.
  Medscape Medical News, July 26, 2024
• Phenotypic Shift, Varied Vasculopathy Noted in IPAH Diffusion capacity of the lungs for carbon monoxide was a distinguishing factor in a new study.
  Medscape Medical News, July 26, 2024
• Inappropriate NSAID Prescribing Causing Avoidable Harm Prescribing NSAIDs to people at high risk of harm from them has cost more than 6000 years of good health and £31 million for the NHS over the past decade, a study found.
  Medscape News UK, July 26, 2024
• GRAPPA 2024 MACE Risk Similar Among Biologics for Psoriasis, PsA A retrospective analysis shows no difference in major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) between TNF inhibitors, IL-17 inhibitors, IL-23 inhibitors, and IL-12/IL-23 inhibitors.
  Medscape Medical News, July 25, 2024
• Could Resistin Predict PAH Severity or Death? Survival models affirmed the value of resistin as a novel biomarker and therapy driver.
  Medscape Medical News, July 25, 2024
• Treat Heart Failure More Like Cancer Heart failure should be handled more like cancer — with aggressive early treatment — targeting the cause of the disease, not just the symptoms.
  Medscape Medical News, July 24, 2024
• Dangers of Intramuscular Fat Tissue Are Often Underestimated Intramuscular fat tissue increases the risk for type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases.
  Medscape Medical News, July 24, 2024
• Fish Oil Supplements Cut Diabetes Complication Risk Patients with type 2 diabetes who consumed fish oil supplements had a lower risk for both macrovascular and microvascular complications, according to a cohort study.
  Medscape Medical News, July 23, 2024
• Treatable Condition Misdiagnosed as Dementia in 13% of Cases Patients with dementia may instead have hepatic encephalopathy, a treatable cause of cognitive impairment often caused by cirrhosis.
  Medscape Medical News, July 23, 2024
• No Benefit of Severe Salt Restriction in Heart Failure A moderate daily intake of sodium seems "prudent" for many people with heart failure and may improve quality of life and functional status.
  Medscape Medical News, July 08, 2024
• EULAR 2024 Updated SSc Recommendations Use 'Therapeutic Continuums' The recommendations highlighted the use of immunosuppressive agents and antifibrotics to treat skin fibrosis and lung fibrosis, as well as changes to upfront treatment of pulmonary hypertension.
  Medscape Medical News, June 25, 2024
• ADA 2024 Semaglutide Equally Effective in Women With HFpEF, Obesity Two new analyses of the STEP-HFpEF trials show that semaglutide led to more weight loss in women than in men and that the GLP-1 therapy also improves NYHA class.
  Medscape Medical News, June 24, 2024
• ADA 2024 SELECT: Semaglutide Reduces CV Events and Diabetes Risk Two new analyses of the SELECT trial show that the GLP-1 receptor agonist improves cardiovascular health and reduces or normalizes glycemic levels irrespective of baseline A1c.
  Medscape Medical News, June 23, 2024
• ADA 2024 ADA Scientific Sessions 2024 Go Beyond Glucose and Obesity This year's American Diabetes Association annual meeting will explore new endpoints and highlight best practices for current tools.
  Medscape Medical News, June 19, 2024
• Updated Guideline Reflects New Drugs for Type 2 Diabetes The American College of Physicians updated its existing guidelines to incorporate evidence on the new treatments for type 2 diabetes.
  Medscape Medical News, June 18, 2024
• HFA-ESC 2024 Delays After Tests for Suspected Heart Failure 'a Scandal' Patients are waiting up to a year for a diagnosis with many ending up in hospital with heart failure, warned investigators.
  Medscape Medical News, June 17, 2024
• Seven EMS Practices Boost Cardiac Arrest Survival Rates A study showed that seven practices by emergency medical services were linked to higher rates of favorable neurological survival following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
  Medscape Medical News, June 12, 2024
• HFA-ESC 2024 Semaglutide Helps Heart Failure 'Regardless of Diuretics' Patients with heart failure and preserved ejection fraction have symptomatic and functional improvements with semaglutide across all types, uses, and doses of diuretics, finds the STEP-HFpEF program.
  Medscape Medical News, June 10, 2024
• HFA-ESC 2024 Why This Simple Heart Failure Symptom Is So Easy to Ignore Patients with bendopnea are rarely tested for it, yet they appear to be twice as likely to die within 2 years of hospital discharge if they have it.
  Medscape Medical News, June 10, 2024