Circulation: Heart FailurePub Date : 2025-03-01Epub Date: 2024-12-09DOI: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.124.012027
Stephen J Foulkes, Rachel J Skow, Andre La Gerche, Wayne J Tymchak, Mark J Haykowsky
{"title":"Insights From a 20-Year Follow-Up of the First Heart Transplant Recipient to Complete an Ironman Triathlon.","authors":"Stephen J Foulkes, Rachel J Skow, Andre La Gerche, Wayne J Tymchak, Mark J Haykowsky","doi":"10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.124.012027","DOIUrl":"10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.124.012027","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10196,"journal":{"name":"Circulation: Heart Failure","volume":" ","pages":"e012027"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142794269","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Circulation: Heart FailurePub Date : 2025-03-01Epub Date: 2025-02-18DOI: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.124.011837
Supriya Shore, Hanyu Li, Min Zhang, Rachael T Whitney, Alden L Gross, Ankeet S Bhatt, Brahmajee K Nallamothu, Bruno Giordani, Emily M Briceño, Jeremy B Sussman, Jose Gutierrez, Kristine Yaffe, Michael E Griswold, Michelle C Johansen, Oscar L Lopez, Rebecca F Gottesman, Stephen Sidney, Susan R Heckbert, Tatjana Rundek, Timothy M Hughes, W T Longstreth, Deborah A Levine
{"title":"Trajectory of Cognitive Function After Incident Heart Failure.","authors":"Supriya Shore, Hanyu Li, Min Zhang, Rachael T Whitney, Alden L Gross, Ankeet S Bhatt, Brahmajee K Nallamothu, Bruno Giordani, Emily M Briceño, Jeremy B Sussman, Jose Gutierrez, Kristine Yaffe, Michael E Griswold, Michelle C Johansen, Oscar L Lopez, Rebecca F Gottesman, Stephen Sidney, Susan R Heckbert, Tatjana Rundek, Timothy M Hughes, W T Longstreth, Deborah A Levine","doi":"10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.124.011837","DOIUrl":"10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.124.011837","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The magnitude of cognitive changes after incident heart failure (HF) is unclear. We assessed whether incident HF is associated with changes in cognition after accounting for pre-HF cognitive trajectories and known determinants of cognition.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This pooled cohort study included adults without HF, stroke, or dementia from 6 US population-based studies from 1971 to 2019. Linear mixed-effects models estimated cognitive change with incident HF diagnosis and the rate of cognitive change over the years after HF, controlling for pre-HF cognitive trajectories and participant factors. Outcomes included change in global cognition (primary outcome), executive function, and memory (secondary outcomes). Cognitive outcomes were standardized to a <i>t</i> score metric (mean [SD], 50 [10]); a 1-point difference represented a 0.1-SD difference in cognition.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We included 29 614 adults (mean [SD] age was 61 [10] years, 55% female, 70% White). During a median follow-up of 6.6 (Q1-Q3, 5.0-19.8) years, 1407 (5%) adults received an incident diagnosis of HF. Incident HF diagnosis was associated with initial decreases in global cognition (-1.1 points [95% CI, -1.4 to -0.8]) and executive function (-0.6 points [95% CI, -1.0 to -0.3]). Larger decreases in global cognition after HF were seen with older age, female sex, and White race. Participants with incident HF diagnosis demonstrated faster and long-term declines in global cognition (-0.1 points per year [95% CI, -0.2 to -0.1]) and executive function (-0.2 points per year [95% CI, -0.2 to -0.1]). The change in memory with incident HF diagnosis was not statistically significant but showed a similar trend with an initial decline of -0.5 points (95% CI, -1.4 to +0.3) and a slope of -0.1 points per year (95% CI, -0.3 to 0.0).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>In this pooled cohort study, incident HF diagnosis was associated with initial decreases in global cognition and executive function and faster, persistent declines in these domains at follow-up.</p>","PeriodicalId":10196,"journal":{"name":"Circulation: Heart Failure","volume":" ","pages":"e011837"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143439995","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Circulation: Heart FailurePub Date : 2025-03-01Epub Date: 2025-02-13DOI: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.124.012550
Saeid Mirzai, Haiying Chen, Amy M Pastva, Gordon R Reeves, Robert J Mentz, Dalane W Kitzman, David J Whellan, M Benjamin Nelson, Anthony E Peters, Ambarish Pandey, Stephen B Kritchevsky, Alain G Bertoni
{"title":"Functional Sarcopenia and Physical Rehabilitation Response in Older Adults Hospitalized for Acute Heart Failure: A Secondary Analysis of the REHAB-HF Trial.","authors":"Saeid Mirzai, Haiying Chen, Amy M Pastva, Gordon R Reeves, Robert J Mentz, Dalane W Kitzman, David J Whellan, M Benjamin Nelson, Anthony E Peters, Ambarish Pandey, Stephen B Kritchevsky, Alain G Bertoni","doi":"10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.124.012550","DOIUrl":"10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.124.012550","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10196,"journal":{"name":"Circulation: Heart Failure","volume":" ","pages":"e012550"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11919549/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143405975","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Circulation: Heart FailurePub Date : 2025-03-01Epub Date: 2025-03-11DOI: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.125.012759
Kenneth B Margulies
{"title":"Precision Medicine Is in the Eye of the Beholder.","authors":"Kenneth B Margulies","doi":"10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.125.012759","DOIUrl":"10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.125.012759","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10196,"journal":{"name":"Circulation: Heart Failure","volume":" ","pages":"e012759"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143596409","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Circulation: Heart FailurePub Date : 2025-03-01Epub Date: 2025-01-27DOI: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.124.012560
Doron Aronson, Yaacov Nitzan, Daniel Burkhoff, William T Abraham
{"title":"Response by Aronson et al to Letter Regarding Article, \"Enhancing Sweat Rate Using a Novel Device for the Treatment of Congestion in Heart Failure\".","authors":"Doron Aronson, Yaacov Nitzan, Daniel Burkhoff, William T Abraham","doi":"10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.124.012560","DOIUrl":"10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.124.012560","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10196,"journal":{"name":"Circulation: Heart Failure","volume":" ","pages":"e012560"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143045337","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Circulation: Heart FailurePub Date : 2025-03-01Epub Date: 2025-01-28DOI: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.124.011690
Idan Refael Haim, Amit Gruber, Noam Kazma, Caroline Bashai, Hava Lichtig Kinsbruner, Oren Caspi
{"title":"Modeling Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction Using Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Cardiac Organoids.","authors":"Idan Refael Haim, Amit Gruber, Noam Kazma, Caroline Bashai, Hava Lichtig Kinsbruner, Oren Caspi","doi":"10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.124.011690","DOIUrl":"10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.124.011690","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The therapeutic armamentarium for heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) remains notably constrained. A factor contributing to this problem could be the scarcity of in vitro models for HFpEF, which hinders progress in developing new therapeutic strategies. Here, we aimed at developing a novel, comorbidity-inspired, human, in vitro model for HFpEF.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Human induced pluripotent stem cells-derived cardiomyocytes were used to produce cardiac organoids. The generated organoids were then subjected to HFpEF-associated, comorbidity-inspired conditions, such as hypertension, diabetes, and obesity-related inflammation. To assess the development of HFpEF pathophysiological features, organoids were thoroughly evaluated for their structural, functional, electrophysiological, and metabolic properties.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Exposure to the combination of all comorbidity-mimicking conditions resulted in the largest cellular volume of 1692±52 versus 1346±84 µm<sup>3</sup> in RPMI (Roswell Park Memorial Institute medium) control group (<i>P</i>=0.003), while lower in obesity, hypertension, and diabetes groups: 1059±40 µm<sup>3</sup> (<i>P</i>=0.014), 1276±35 µm<sup>3</sup> (<i>P</i>=0.940), and 1575±70 µm<sup>3</sup> (<i>P</i>=0.146), respectively. Similarly, ultrastructural fibrosis was most significantly observed after exposure to the combination of all HFpEF-inducing conditions 14.6±1.2% compared with single condition exposure 5.2±1.3% (obesity), 6.7±3.5% (hypertension), and 9.0±1.1% (diabetes; <i>P</i><0.001). Moreover, HFpEF-related conditions led to an increase in passive force compared with control (7.52±1.08 versus 2.33±0.46 mN/mm, <i>P</i><0.001), whereas no significant alterations were noted in active contractile forces. Relaxation constant τ was significantly prolonged after exposure to HFpEF conditions showing a prolongation of 95.9 ms (36.4-106.4; <i>P</i>=0.028) compared with a shortening of 35.6 ms (43.3-67.3; <i>P</i>=0.80) in the control. Finally, organoid exposure to HFpEF conditions led to a significant increase in oxidative stress levels and a significant decline in oxygen consumption rate.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>We established a novel, human, in vitro model for HFpEF, based on comorbidity-inspired conditions. The model faithfully recapitulated the structural, functional, and mechanistic features of HFpEF. This model holds the potential to provide mechanistic insights and facilitate the identification of novel therapeutic targets.</p>","PeriodicalId":10196,"journal":{"name":"Circulation: Heart Failure","volume":" ","pages":"e011690"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143051715","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Circulation: Heart FailurePub Date : 2025-03-01Epub Date: 2025-01-28DOI: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.124.012703
Jenny Jia Ling Cao, William R Miranda, Barry A Borlaug, Yogesh N V Reddy
{"title":"Pseudo-Severe Mitral Stenosis From Obesity-Related HFpEF and Atrial Myopathy.","authors":"Jenny Jia Ling Cao, William R Miranda, Barry A Borlaug, Yogesh N V Reddy","doi":"10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.124.012703","DOIUrl":"10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.124.012703","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10196,"journal":{"name":"Circulation: Heart Failure","volume":" ","pages":"e012703"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11919556/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143051716","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Circulation: Heart FailurePub Date : 2025-03-01Epub Date: 2025-01-30DOI: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.124.012200
W H Wilson Tang, Yuxi Liu, Javed Butler, Stefano Del Prato, Justin A Ezekowitz, Nasrien E Ibrahim, Carolyn S P Lam, Thomas H Marwick, Riccardo Perfetti, Julio Rosenstock, Scott D Solomon, Faiez Zannad, James L Januzzi, Gregory D Lewis
{"title":"Impaired Exercise Capacity in High-Risk Diabetic Cardiomyopathy: The ARISE-HF Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing Subanalysis.","authors":"W H Wilson Tang, Yuxi Liu, Javed Butler, Stefano Del Prato, Justin A Ezekowitz, Nasrien E Ibrahim, Carolyn S P Lam, Thomas H Marwick, Riccardo Perfetti, Julio Rosenstock, Scott D Solomon, Faiez Zannad, James L Januzzi, Gregory D Lewis","doi":"10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.124.012200","DOIUrl":"10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.124.012200","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Objective indices of functional capacity in patients with diabetic cardiomyopathy and stage B heart failure (HF) have not been comprehensively defined. We sought to characterize the cardiopulmonary exercise characteristics of individuals with diabetic cardiomyopathy at high risk for overt HF.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The relationships from cardiopulmonary exercise testing with clinical and laboratory characteristics of participants with diabetic cardiomyopathy were evaluated using baseline data from the ARISE-HF trial (Aldose Reductase Inhibition for Stabilization of Exercise Capacity in Heart Failure). Cluster phenogroups with different comorbidities and their corresponding functional capacity profiles were identified.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Among study participants (n=689), the median (Q1, Q3) peak oxygen uptake and ventilatory efficiency (slope of the ratio of minute ventilation/carbon dioxide production) were 15.7 (interquartile range, 13.0-18.0) mL/kg per minute and 31.2 (interquartile range, 27.2-34.1), respectively. Lower peak oxygen uptake was associated with older age, female sex, higher body mass index, higher N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide, and an increasing burden of noncardiac comorbid conditions but was not associated with cardiac troponin T or echocardiogram-derived strain, left atrial volume index, E/e', or right ventricular systolic pressure. Elevated left ventricular mass index was the only echocardiographic abnormality associated with lower peak oxygen uptake. Multivariable analysis revealed that female sex, higher body mass index, and no history of dyslipidemia were independently associated with lower baseline peak oxygen uptake. Cluster analysis revealed 3 clusters with profiles of different cardiovascular/exercise parameters and health status profiles.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Baseline cardiopulmonary exercise testing data from the ARISE-HF trial highlight predominant associations of extracardiac clinical and demographic variables with significant impairment in exercise capacity despite strict fulfillment of diagnostic criteria for stage B HF.</p><p><strong>Registration: </strong>URL: https://www.clinicaltrials.gov; Unique identifier: NCT04083339.</p>","PeriodicalId":10196,"journal":{"name":"Circulation: Heart Failure","volume":" ","pages":"e012200"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143063964","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Circulation: Heart FailurePub Date : 2025-03-01Epub Date: 2025-01-27DOI: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.124.012466
Han Xing, Chengeng Deng, Huihui Zhao
{"title":"Letter by Xing et al Regarding Article, \"Enhancing Sweat Rate Using a Novel Device for the Treatment of Congestion in Heart Failure\".","authors":"Han Xing, Chengeng Deng, Huihui Zhao","doi":"10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.124.012466","DOIUrl":"10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.124.012466","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10196,"journal":{"name":"Circulation: Heart Failure","volume":" ","pages":"e012466"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143045202","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Circulation: Heart FailurePub Date : 2025-03-01Epub Date: 2025-01-17DOI: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.124.011984
Matěj Běhounek, Denisa Lipcseyová, Ondřej Vít, Petr Žáček, Pavel Talacko, Zuzana Husková, Soňa Kikerlová, Tereza Tykvartová, Peter Wohlfahrt, Vojtěch Melenovský, Jan Beneš, Jiří Petrák
{"title":"Biomarkers of RV Dysfunction in HFrEF Identified by Direct Tissue Proteomics: Extracellular Proteins Fibromodulin and Fibulin-5.","authors":"Matěj Běhounek, Denisa Lipcseyová, Ondřej Vít, Petr Žáček, Pavel Talacko, Zuzana Husková, Soňa Kikerlová, Tereza Tykvartová, Peter Wohlfahrt, Vojtěch Melenovský, Jan Beneš, Jiří Petrák","doi":"10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.124.011984","DOIUrl":"10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.124.011984","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Right ventricular dysfunction (RVD) is common in patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction, and it is associated with poor prognosis. However, no biomarker reflecting RVD is available for routine clinical use.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Proteomic analysis of myocardium from the left ventricle and right ventricle (RV) of patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction with (n=10) and without RVD (n=10) who underwent heart transplantation was performed. Concentrations of 2 ECM (extracellular matrix) proteins with the highest myocardial upregulation in RVD, FMOD (fibromodulin) and FBLN5 (fibulin-5), were assayed in the blood and tested in a separate cohort of patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (n=232) to test for the association of the 2 proteins with RV function and long-term outcomes.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Multivariable linear regression revealed that plasma concentrations of both FMOD and FBLN5 were significantly associated with RV function regardless of the RV function assessment method. No association of FMOD or FBLN5 with left ventricular dysfunction, cardiac index, body mass index, diabetes status, or kidney function was found. Plasma levels of FMOD and FBLN5 were significantly associated with patient outcomes (<i>P</i>=0.005; <i>P</i>=0.004). Area under the curve analysis showed that the addition of FBLN5 or FMOD to RV function assessment had a significantly higher area under the curve after 4 years of follow-up (0.653 and 0.631, respectively) compared with RV function alone (0.570; <i>P</i><0.05 for both). Similarly, the combination of MAGGIC (Meta-Analysis Global Group in Chronic Heart Failure) score, FBLN5, and FMOD had a significantly larger area under the curve (0.669) than the combination of MAGGIC score+RVD grade (0.572; <i>P</i>=0.02). The Kaplan-Meier analysis demonstrated that patients with the elevation of both FMOD and FBLN5 (ie, FMOD >64 ng/mL and FMOD >27 ng/mL) had a worse prognosis than those with the elevation of either FBLN5 or FMOD (<i>P</i>=0.03) demonstrating the additive prognostic value of both proteins.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Our study proposes that circulating levels of FMOD and FBLN5 may serve as new biomarkers of RVD in patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction.</p>","PeriodicalId":10196,"journal":{"name":"Circulation: Heart Failure","volume":" ","pages":"e011984"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11905906/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143001115","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}