Epidemiology of heart failure

A Groenewegen, FH Rutten, A Mosterd… - European journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The heart failure syndrome has first been described as an emerging epidemic about 25
years ago. Today, because of a growing and ageing population, the total number of heart …

Reappraising the role of inflammation in heart failure

L Adamo, C Rocha-Resende, SD Prabhu… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
The observation that heart failure with reduced ejection fraction is associated with elevated
circulating levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines opened a new area of research that has …

Systemic immune‐inflammation index (SII) predicted clinical outcome in patients with coronary artery disease

YL Yang, CH Wu, PF Hsu, SC Chen… - European journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Background This study examines the predictive value of a novel systemic immune‐
inflammation index (SII, platelet× neutrophil/lymphocyte ratio) in coronary artery disease …

Mechanisms of cardiovascular benefits of sodium glucose co-transporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors: a state-of-the-art review

GD Lopaschuk, S Verma - Basic to Translational Science, 2020 - jacc.org
Recent clinical trials have shown that sodium glucose co-transport 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors have
dramatic beneficial cardiovascular outcomes. These include a reduced incidence of …

Inflammatory cytokines and chemokines as therapeutic targets in heart failure

A Hanna, NG Frangogiannis - Cardiovascular Drugs and Therapy, 2020 - Springer
Heart failure exhibits remarkable pathophysiologic heterogeneity. A large body of evidence
suggests that regardless of the underlying etiology, heart failure is associated with induction …

Heart failure in type 2 diabetes mellitus: impact of glucose-lowering agents, heart failure therapies, and novel therapeutic strategies

HC Kenny, ED Abel - Circulation research, 2019 - Am Heart Assoc
Patients with diabetes mellitus have> 2× the risk for developing heart failure (HF; HF with
reduced ejection fraction and HF with preserved ejection fraction). Cardiovascular …

Resident cardiac macrophages: Heterogeneity and function in health and disease

R Zaman, S Epelman - Immunity, 2022 - cell.com
Understanding tissue macrophage biology has become challenging in recent years due the
ever-increasing complexity in macrophage-subset identification and functional …

Dietary metabolism, the gut microbiome, and heart failure

WHW Tang, DY Li, SL Hazen - Nature Reviews Cardiology, 2019 - nature.com
Advances in our understanding of how the gut microbiota contributes to human health and
diseases have expanded our insight into how microbial composition and function affect the …

Obesity, hypertension, and cardiac dysfunction: novel roles of immunometabolism in macrophage activation and inflammation

AJ Mouton, X Li, ME Hall, JE Hall - Circulation research, 2020 - Am Heart Assoc
Obesity and hypertension, which often coexist, are major risk factors for heart failure and are
characterized by chronic, low-grade inflammation, which promotes adverse cardiac …

Coronavirus disease 2019 hospitalizations attributable to cardiometabolic conditions in the United States: a comparative risk assessment analysis

M O'Hearn, J Liu, F Cudhea, R Micha… - Journal of the …, 2021 - Am Heart Assoc
BACKGROUND Risk of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) hospitalization is robustly
linked to cardiometabolic health. We estimated the absolute and proportional COVID‐19 …