Analysis was restricted to heart failure patients with previous hospitalisation because although patients in an early disease stage may also use a heart failure specialist service, they were judged not to represent its primary target.
The study by Frommeyer et al. in this issue of the European Journal of Heart Failure adds to the existing body of evidence and expands previous work by that group by using a rabbit heart failure model investigating action potentials mapped from the epicardium of isolated Langendorff-perfused rabbit hearts ex vivo.
33 Fujita et al examined the effect of a dry sauna (60°C for 15 minutes) on cardiac function improvement using a hamster heart failure model.
Although BNP and NT-proBNP are biomarkers widely used in making a heart failure diagnosis, we found in our earlier work that they are confounded by ischemic diseases, such as cerebral infarction [ 17].
A literature search for heart failure clinical practice guidelines was conducted using a simple strategy (heart failure MeSH or equivalent, exploded to capture narrower concepts, combined with the textword guideline* or a guideline publication type limit).
The corresponding figures for men (using a 10-year heart failure risk threshold of ≥ 23.9%) were 30.6%, 91.2%, and 35.1%, respectively.
Capitalizing on the opportunity to use caregivers as a resource to aid in self-management using technology among heart failure patients might be a fruitful future direction [ 48].
Because the proportional hazards assumption was violated by the variables "systolic blood pressure" and "previous heart failure," we included an interaction term between "systolic blood pressure" and the logarithm of survival time, and used "previous heart failure" as a stratification variable in the model.
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Metoprolol was also often prescribed, but according to the guidelines of the Dutch Pharmacogenetics Working Group only requires a dose adjustment when used for heart failure.
