Millions of patients are hospitalized for acute heart failure (AHF ... with regards to both treatment and strategies of care. These advances will be reviewed in the context of initial or early ...

Patients who have been treated for heart failure and experience an improvement of their pump function, are still at higher risk of heart-related death or hospitalization if they stop taking heart ...

Heart failure is a serious, chronic condition. While medication can help the heart recover and improve its function, this study suggests that the medications themselves may continue to protect the ...

Researchers at Columbia Universityfound that while both drugs effectively lower blood pressure and help prevent heart attacks, strokes, and heart failure, chlorthalidone comes with higher risks of ...

are still at higher risk of heart-related death or hospitalization if they stop taking heart failure medications. This is according to a new study from Karolinska Institutet published in the ...

However, stopping beta-blocker medication was only associated with a higher risk in patients whose heart function had only moderately improved. "Our results show that heart failure medications ...