Fluid intake and heart failure … and other research
Tom Nolan reviews this week’s research It wasn’t long ago that we’d routinely. advise people with heart failure and fluid overload to restrict their fluid intake. Nowadays, restriction advice is restricted to only a few, such as those with dilutional hyponatraemia. A new multicentre, open-label trial supports this approach. It randomised 504 people with chronic heart failure attending outpatient clinics to receive advice for liberal fluid intake or 1500 mL per day fluid restriction. No differences in health status or safety events were found between the two groups after three months. Nat Med doi:10.1038/s41591-025-03628-4 We didn’t realise it at the time, but in 1998 the boyband Five were mostly singing about the five main cardiovascular risk factors. Five will …
