Current models of mortality risk after heart failure (HF) rely primarily on cardiac-specific clinical variables and may underestimate risk in elderly East Asian patients. Researchers from Japan used ...

Almost half of patients hospitalized for acute heart failure in Europe are readmitted within a year, according to a new study ...

Patients with therapeutic intensification of pharmacological pressure-unloading therapy had marked improvements in cardiac load, the study found, as demonstrated by reductions in N-terminal pro-B-type ...

Researchers at the Nora Eccles Harrison Cardiovascular Research and Training Institute, University of Utah, and the University of Utah School of Medicine, have demonstrated that a gene therapy can ...

Sacubitril/valsartan does not change cognitive function, compared with valsartan, in patients with heart failure and mildly reduced or preserved ejection fraction, according to late breaking research ...

Share on Pinterest Scientists are searching for medications that will have fewer side effects for people with heart failure. Orlando/Getty Images Heart failure is a potentially dangerous condition ...

Regularly testing your kidney function can help you catch early kidney disease. You can manage diabetes and high blood pressure to prevent kidney disease from progressing. Lifestyle changes, like ...

Use of race-based reference equations in pulmonary function testing has led to thresholds for what qualifies as impairment in populations.