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Traditional randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are necessary for establishing causality between interventions and outcomes, forming the basis for clinical guidelines.1 However, the requirement for study-specific in-person study visits by participants to collect accurate clinical outcomes poses a burden on participants and sites, resulting in high costs and limiting eligible participants to those with the ability to travel to visits.2 Remote follow-up methods, such as utilizing central call centers for participant-reported events or site reports using medical record query, have potential for enhanced trial efficiency, reduced costs, and less burden on both participants and clinical trial sites.
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Mashup Score: 29The Wallet Biopsy: Medical Crowdfunding for Heart Transplantation - 1 month(s) ago
Financial considerations continue to impact access to heart transplantation. Transplant recipients face various costs, including, but not limited to, the index hospitalization, immunosuppressive medications, and lodging and travel to appointments. In this study, we sought to describe the state of crowdfunding for individuals being evaluated for heart transplantation. Using the search term heart transplant, 1000 GoFundMe campaigns were reviewed. After exclusions, 634 (63.4%) campaigns were included.
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Mashup Score: 0Journal of Cardiac Failure | LinkedIn - 1 month(s) ago
Journal of Cardiac Failure | 4 followers on LinkedIn. From Function to Failure | The official Journal of the Heart Failure Society of America and the Japanese Heart Failure Societyπ« The Journal of Cardiac Failure publishes the highest quality science in the field of heart failure with a focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion, mentorship, multidisciplinary partnerships, and patient-centeredness. Published papers span original investigator-initiated work to state-of-the-art reviews, guidelines and scientific statements, expert perspectives, early career and trainee spotlight pieces, and patient and patient-partner narratives. JCF emphasizes the power of language and prioritizes innovative approaches to the dissemination of published work to reach and impact the broader heart failure community.
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Mashup Score: 18Heart Failure, Investigator-Reported Sleep Apnea and Dapagliflozin: A Patient-Level Pooled Meta-Analysis of DAPA-HF and DELIVER - 2 month(s) ago
Sleep-disordered breathing is a spectrum of sleep-related conditions; the 2 major types are obstructive sleep apnea and central sleep apnea.1β4 The former is characterized by a partial or complete obstruction of the upper airway during sleep and the latter by abnormalities in the brainstem respiratory centers, with a periodic reduction or cessation of respiratory effort without prominent airway collapse.1β4 Although central sleep apnea is rare in the general population, obstructive sleep apnea may afflict as many as 1 in 7 individuals in the world, although it is largely undiagnosed.
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Mashup Score: 18Early Initiation of Sacubitril/Valsartan in Patients With Acute Heart Failure and Renal Dysfunction: An Analysis of the TRANSITION Study - 2 month(s) ago
Patients with comorbid heart failure (HF) and renal dysfunction (RD) have a worse prognosis than HF patients without RD, with higher rates of hospitalization, mortality, and morbidity.1 One of the additional challenges of management of patients with acute HF is the higher prevalence of RD (53%) compared with those with chronic HF (42%).2 Not only are patients with both HF and RD at a higher risk of adverse outcomes during the vulnerable postdischarge phase after acute decompensated HF (ADHF) episodes, but HF treatment initiation and up-titration can be more challenging owing to differences in HF drugsβ pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics.
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Mashup Score: 18Heart Failure in Latin American Women: A Call for Action - 2 month(s) ago
Latin America (LATAM), defined as the region of the Americas where Romance (Latin-derived) languages, such as Spanish, Portuguese and French, are spoken, is composed of 33 countries, stretching from Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean to Chile, the farthest South American territory. Encompassing 8.3% of the world’s population (more than 670 million inhabitants, median age 31 years), 335 million women live in the various nations of this subcontinent, most of whom are categorized as having low or middle incomes.
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Change is needed to improve care of #Latinx βοΈ living with HF, by focusing on π₯ Social determinants of health in LATAM π« Specific HF etiologies 𧬠Influence of genetics π‘οΈ Particular clinical manifestations This amazing perspective piece is out now: π https://t.co/TzgQHy8XgB https://t.co/e07Di75AKC
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Mashup Score: 37Cognitive Impairment in Heart Failure: A Heart Failure Society of America Scientific Statement - 2 month(s) ago
Cognitive impairment is common among adults with heart failure (HF), as both diseases are strongly related to advancing age and multimorbidity (including both cardiovascular and noncardiovascular conditions). Moreover, HF itself can contribute to alterations in the brain. Cognition is critical for a myriad of self-care activities that are necessary to manage HF, and it also has a major impact on prognosis; consequently, cognitive impairment has important implications for self-care, medication management, function and independence, and life expectancy.
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Mashup Score: 37Cognitive Impairment in Heart Failure: A Heart Failure Society of America Scientific Statement - 2 month(s) ago
Cognitive impairment is common among adults with heart failure (HF), as both diseases are strongly related to advancing age and multimorbidity (including both cardiovascular and noncardiovascular conditions). Moreover, HF itself can contribute to alterations in the brain. Cognition is critical for a myriad of self-care activities that are necessary to manage HF, and it also has a major impact on prognosis; consequently, cognitive impairment has important implications for self-care, medication management, function and independence, and life expectancy.
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Mashup Score: 32Cognitive Impairment in Heart Failure: A Heart Failure Society of America Scientific Statement - 2 month(s) ago
Cognitive impairment is common among adults with heart failure (HF), as both diseases are strongly related to advancing age and multimorbidity (including both cardiovascular and noncardiovascular conditions). Moreover, HF itself can contribute to alterations in the brain. Cognition is critical for a myriad of self-care activities that are necessary to manage HF, and it also has a major impact on prognosis; consequently, cognitive impairment has important implications for self-care, medication management, function and independence, and life expectancy.
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Mashup Score: 54Unmasking HFpEF with Artificial Intelligence: A Disruptive Opportunity for Disease Detection - 2 month(s) ago
Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) is a highly prevalent clinical syndrome that accounts for the majority of heart failure cases around the world. The prevalence of HFpEF has previously been reported to be between 1-5.5% of the general population1. However, this may be underestimated, given that diagnosis remains challenging, owing to a multitude of different etiologies and presentations that can be attributed to HFpEF2. With newly available therapies, making an earlier diagnosis of HFpEF has the potential to significantly change the trajectory of a patient’s disease course.
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Out now in #JCF! Remote follow-up visits can reduce costs & enhance pragmatic HF trials. In this analysis of CONNECT-HF, @SS_cardiol et al. evaluated the completeness & validity of the remote follow-ups. #ACC π: https://t.co/ZXMjLlZFhj https://t.co/pAUR5vHhSu