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Use of aspirin offers health benefits to older individuals with elevated lipoprotein(a) genotypes by preventing cardiovascular events, suggests a study.
The selective, oral sodium–glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitor dapagliflozin reduces the risk of cardiovascular (CV) death or worsening heart failure (HF) in patients with HF and mildly reduced or preserved ejection fraction (HFmrEF or HFpEF) in the phase III DELIVER* trial, touted as the largest and most inclusive thus far in this patient group.
Utilization of hearts donated after circulatory death (DCD) appears to result in transient post-transplant right heart dysfunction and short-term clinical outcomes otherwise comparable to transplantation using hearts donated after brain death (DBD), reveals a recent study.
Reproductive factors such as irregular menstrual cycles, nulliparity, and multiparity contribute to an increased risk of new-onset atrial fibrillation in women, as reported in a study.
A real-world study of over 250,000 type 2 diabetes (T2D) patients from Hong Kong has found that use of renin-angiotensin-system inhibitors (RASIs) is independently associated with reduced risk of cancer, including diabetes-related cancers and cancer-specific mortality in diabetes.
Recent evidence suggests that drinking alcoholic beverages is associated with cardiovascular diseases (CVD), including coronary artery disease (CAD), and all-cause mortality.
Among older adults suffering from hip fractures, calf deep vein thrombosis (DVT) appears to significantly aggravate the risk of 30-day all-cause mortality, a recent study has found. However, no such effect exists for the 90-day death risk.
Special Reports
The selective, oral sodium–glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitor dapagliflozin reduces the risk of cardiovascular (CV) death or worsening heart failure (HF) in patients with HF and mildly reduced or preserved ejection fraction (HFmrEF or HFpEF) in the phase III DELIVER* trial, touted as the largest and most inclusive thus far in this patient group.
Initially approved to improve glycaemic control and reduce cardiovascular death in adults with type 2 diabetes (T2D), the SGLT-2* inhibitor empagliflozin reduced hospitalization for heart failure (HFH) or cardiovascular death and delayed renal function decline when added to recommended therapy in patients with heart failure and reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) in the EMPEROR-Reduced** trial. The EMPEROR-Preserved** trial has now shown that the benefits of empagliflozin extend to patients with heart failure and preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF).
HFpEF represents a significant unmet need in CV medicine due to
its prevalence, poor prognosis, and the absence of clinically proven
therapeutic options. The EMPEROR-Preserved trial demonstrated the continuous
clinical benefits in cardiorenal outcomes of empagliflozin in adults with
HFpEF, which were consistent with the observations in adults with HFmrEF/
HFpEF in the EMPEROR-reduced trial. The combined results of the EMPEROR
trials establish empagliflozin’s efficacy in heart failure regardless of
ejection fraction – and if approved, empagliflozin would become the first and
only clinically proven therapy to improve outcomes for the full spectrum of
the disease. Therefore, empagliflozin offers a new hope for people living
with heart failure.
Heart failure with preserved
ejection fraction (HFpEF) represents a significant unmet medical need. The
EMPEROR-Preserved trial aimed to assess the impact of empagliflozin on
cardiovascular outcomes in patients with HFpEF. On 27 August 2021, during the
hotline session of the 2021 ESC Virtual Congress, the main results of the
EMPEROR-Preserved trial were presented by Professor Stefan Anker, principal
investigator of the study, and heart failure specialist at Charité Berlin,
Germany.
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common cardiac arrhythmia encountered in clinical practice, affecting millions of people globally. Stroke is one of its devastating complications, with the risk steeply increasing with advancing age. Additionally, AF is associated with more than a tripling of the risk of systemic embolic (SE) events. [J Am Heart Assoc 2020;9:e016724]
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Conference Reports
The selective, oral sodium–glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitor dapagliflozin reduces the risk of cardiovascular (CV) death or worsening heart failure (HF) in patients with HF and mildly reduced or preserved ejection fraction (HFmrEF or HFpEF) in the phase III DELIVER* trial, touted as the largest and most inclusive thus far in this patient group.
Following negative primary results, the final follow-up of the SYMPLICITY HTN-3 trial takes a turn for the better, demonstrating significant blood pressure (BP) reductions with renal denervation (RDN) in patients with uncontrolled hypertension (HTN).
Timing of antihypertensive medication intake, be it in the morning or evening, does not appear to affect the risk of cardiovascular death or hospitalization for non-fatal myocardial infarction (MI) or non-fatal stroke, according to results of the TIME trial presented at ESC 2022.
Compared with aspirin alone, treatment with a P2Y12 inhibitor (clopidogrel or ticagrelor) is associated with lower risks of cardiovascular (CV) death, myocardial infarction (MI), or stroke in patients with established coronary artery disease (CAD), according to the PANTHER* trial presented at ESC 2022.
Early, long-term lipid lowering with the PCSK9 inhibitor evolocumab further reduces cardiovascular (CV) events, including CV death, without any safety signal, in the FOURIER* open-label extension (OLE) study.
The phase II ENTRIGUE trial presented at ESC 2022 showed the potential of pegozafermin to improve triglyceride levels and other lipid-related metrics in individuals with severe hypertriglyceridaemia.
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