Patients taking renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system inhibitor (RAASi) medications for heart failure had significantly lower blood potassium levels when taking patiromer—a drug that helps to prevent ...

Hyperkalemia is a potentially life-threatening side effect of RAASi use. Individuals with heart failure are particularly susceptible because heart failure itself can cause hyperkalemia. “Several ...

A panelist discusses how the FINEARTS-HF trial employed rigorous potassium-monitoring protocols and predefined hyperkalemia thresholds to evaluate finerenone's safety profile in patients with heart ...

A recent analysis explored whether potassium monitoring could be used as a prognostic tool in the setting of incident HF. The study showed higher incidence of mortality in the dyskalemia ranges, and ...

MINNEAPOLIS — A reduced risk for death may balance out concerns about hyperkalemia when treating heart failure with renin-angiotensin system (RAS) inhibitors and mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists ...

Hyperkalemia is a potentially serious condition that can result in life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias and is associated with an increased mortality risk. Patients older than 65 years who have an ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with heart failure and reduced ejection fraction who were randomized to dapagliflozin had half the risk ...

Secondary results from the DAPA-HF trial suggest the sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitor may enable use of mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists in some patients with heart failure.

Finerenone use in trial patients with HFpEF or HFmrEF increased hyperkalemia risk, especially in those with CKD. Finerenone use in patients with heart failure and preserved or mildly reduced ejection ...

For patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF), the addition of dapagliflozin (Farxiga) to a mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist (MRA) halved the incidence of moderate to ...

From apps that diagnose irregular heart rhythms to phone cases that claim to measure blood pressure, there has been a wave of technology promising to use our everyday devices — smartphones and ...