The role of ACE inhibitors in the management of HFPEF is less significant compared ... by prespecified clinical and echocardiographic criteria, and hospitalized for a cardiovascular cause within ...

Understanding how patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFPEF) die provides insight into the natural history and pathophysiology of this complex syndrome, thereby allowing ...

Included studies evaluated the prevalence and impact of ID in patients with HFpEF, and the inclusion criteria, along with criteria for the diagnosis of HFpEF and ID, are detailed in online ...

Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) involves half of hospitalised patients with heart failure (HF), but estimates vary due to unclear diagnostic criteria. We performed a prospective ...

Using the H2FPEF score, Black patients are less likely than white patients to be diagnosed with HFpEF, even when diagnostic clinical criteria are present. This may be due to differences in the ...

The Jones criteria is a diagnostic tool for diagnosing acute rheumatic fever (ARF). It involves testing heart function using echocardiograms, X-rays, blood tests, and other screenings. Rheumatic ...

FINEARTS-HF, she said, “also answers the question definitively” about whether MRAs reduce the risk of cardiovascular death or heart failure events in those with HFmrEF/HFpEF. “We know from other ...

Researchers combined data on nearly 4,000 patients across four trials who had heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (or HFpEF) and found that 5.4% of those treated with Wegovy experienced ...

A diagnostic medical sonographer could be answering the question "Is it a boy or a girl?" as well as a host of other life-changing medical questions with the help of ultrasound technology.

There are limited treatment options for the large population of patients with heart failure (HF) and mildly reduced or preserved ejection fraction (HFmrEF/HFpEF).  In the FINEARTS-HF trial, finerenone ...