Heart Failure: News

• ACP-IM 2025 Eye-Opening Updates in Insomnia and OSA Expert shares treatment approaches for insomnia and alternatives for patients With PAP-intolerance.
  Medscape Medical News, April 11, 2025
• ACC 2025 So Far, TAVI Device for Aortic Regurgitation Is Effective A device in clinical development appears to be far safer and more effective than the TAVI devices currently being used off-label for the treatment of aortic regurgitation.
  Medscape Medical News, April 09, 2025
• Effect of BMI on Cardiovascular Risk in RA Varies In patients with RA, BMI affects cardiovascular risk, differing by anti–citrullinated protein antibody (ACPA) status and biologic use.
  Medscape Medical News, April 09, 2025
• Hypertensive Pregnancy Increases Dilated Cardiomyopathy Risk Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy in first pregnancies double the risk for dilated cardiomyopathy, with the onset earlier than that in normotensive pregnancies.
  Medscape News UK, April 08, 2025
• ACC 2025 No Need to Restrict Fluids in Stable Heart Failure New evidence contradicts decades-old advice and shows that unlimited fluids are safe and ease discomfort from thirst.
  Medscape Medical News, April 07, 2025
• Your Gums Could Raise Your Stroke Risk by 22% New findings reveal a 22% higher stroke risk linked to periodontitis, spotlighting oral health as a key factor in preventing systemic disease.
  Medscape News UK, April 07, 2025
• ACC 2025 SGLT2 Inhibitors Progressing to New Standard After TAVI In patients with heart failure, SGLT2 inhibitors after TAVI are associated with major risk reductions in a clinical trial that multiple experts are calling practice changing.
  Medscape Medical News, April 03, 2025
• Tips for PCPs on Addressing and Preventing Heart Disease Cardiac illnesses are among the trickier ones to manage in the limited time provided for many primary care visits, with common and easily dismissed symptoms often providing early signs of disease.
  Medscape Medical News, April 03, 2025
• Obesity ‘Strongly’ Linked to 16 Cardiometabolic Diseases The prevalence of metabolic dysfunction–associated steatotic liver disease, chronic kidney disease, and obstructive sleep apnea, among others, increases with increasing BMI.
  Medscape Medical News, April 02, 2025
• Early Statin Use Shows Sustained Cardiovascular Benefits Early introduction of atorvastatin in patients with hypertension demonstrates sustained cardiovascular benefits, a 20-year follow-up study reveals.
  Medscape News UK, April 01, 2025
• ACC 2025 Does Treating Iron Deficiency in Heart Failure Help? A new study lacked significant results, but when combined with additional studies, the prevention of cardiovascular events was significant.
  Medscape Medical News, April 01, 2025
• ACC 2025 Semaglutide Shows Major Benefits in PAD: STRIDE The GLP-1 agonist has shown convincing benefits in yet another population, patients with peripheral arterial disease, in a practice-changing trial, according to experts.
  Medscape Medical News, March 30, 2025
• ACC 2025 New Smartwatch Metric Points to Overall Heart Health A Northwestern medical student has found a better way of measuring heart health by smartwatch using a formula of steps per day and heart rate data.
  Medscape Medical News, March 29, 2025
• ACC 2025 First Hours Crucial in New Guidance for Cardiogenic Shock The first clinical guidance for cardiogenic shock will be presented at the American College of Cardiology Scientific Session for a syndrome that still takes the lives of 1 in 3 patients.
  Medscape Medical News, March 27, 2025
• Marketing Meals Influence Cardiologist Prescribing for HFrEF Marketing for ARNis and SGLT2 inhibitors is linked to increased prescriptions among cardiologists but not with the prescription of other guideline-directed medical therapies for HFrEF.
  Medscape Medical News, March 26, 2025
• ACC 2025 Two New Studies Link Cannabis to Cardiovascular Problems A large retrospective study finds cannabis users have six times the risk for heart attacks. Meanwhile, a meta-analysis links the drug to a 50% increased risk for a heart attack.
  Medscape Medical News, March 26, 2025
• Cancer Survivors Show Unique CVD Patterns Cancer survivors have an elevated risk for cardiovascular diseases, with variations by cancer type and ethnicity.
  Medscape News UK, March 24, 2025
• Alert FDA Expands Vutrisiran Indication to ATTR-Cardiomyopathy The FDA has approved a supplemental new drug application for the treatment of cardiomyopathy wild-type or hereditary transthyretin-mediated amyloidosis.
  Medscape Medical News, March 21, 2025
• Better 5-Year Valve Performance With TAVI Than Surgery Patients with symptomatic severe aortic stenosis undergoing CoreValve or Evolut TAVI have better 5-year bioprosthetic valve performance and clinical outcomes than those undergoing surgery.
  Medscape Medical News, March 20, 2025
• Heart Failure Care Outside of ICU Can Lower Cost A protocol for transitioning patients with heart failure and a left ventricular assist device to a stepdown unit from the ICU is more cost effective, among other advantages.
  Medscape Medical News, March 19, 2025