Thanat Chaikijurajai, Jose Emanuel Finet, Yuping Wu, Serge C Harb, Justin L Grodin, Wael A Jaber, Wai Hong Wilson Tang
{"title":"Risk stratification with the Haemodynamic Gain Index and peak rate-pressure product in patients with chronic heart failure undergoing treadmill exercise testing.","authors":"Thanat Chaikijurajai, Jose Emanuel Finet, Yuping Wu, Serge C Harb, Justin L Grodin, Wael A Jaber, Wai Hong Wilson Tang","doi":"10.1093/eurjpc/zwaf046","DOIUrl":"10.1093/eurjpc/zwaf046","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Aims: </strong>We recently demonstrated the combined prognostic value of the following two simple non-invasive parameters obtained from treadmill exercise testing in patients with heart failure (HF) with reduced ejection fraction: the Haemodynamic Gain Index (HGI) and peak rate-pressure product (RPP). However, their prognostic value is yet to be validated in patients with undifferentiated HF syndrome.</p><p><strong>Methods and results: </strong>We identified consecutive HF patients undergoing treadmill exercise testing for symptom evaluation between January 1991 and February 2015. The HGI was calculated from [(SBPpeak × heart ratepeak) - (SBPrest × heart raterest)]/(SBPrest × heart raterest), and the peak RPP was calculated from SBPpeak × heart ratepeak. Hazard ratios per standard deviation increase of the HGI and peak RPP for all-cause mortality were estimated using multivariable Cox regression models with adjustment for traditional cardiovascular risk factors and exercise-testing parameters (Chronotropic Reserve Index, estimated metabolic equivalents, abnormal heart rate recovery, and total exercise time). In our cohort of 5940 patients with symptomatic HF diagnosis with a median follow-up of 7.1 years, 2222 (37.4%) patients died. Higher values of both HGI and peak RPP were associated with a lower risk of mortality [adjusted hazard ratio per standard deviation increase 0.80 (0.73-0.88) and 0.85 (0.78-0.91), respectively, all P < 0.001]. Optimal cut-off values for HGI and peak RPP for discriminating all-cause mortality were 1.06 and 180 966, respectively.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Both HGI and peak RPP are predictors of mortality in patients with chronic HF and may be tools to signal the need for advanced HF therapy evaluation.</p>","PeriodicalId":12051,"journal":{"name":"European journal of preventive cardiology","volume":" ","pages":"939-946"},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2025-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143363808","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Does exercising more often and longer beat increasing the intensity in patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction?","authors":"Esmée A Bakker, Seth S Martin","doi":"10.1093/eurjpc/zwae400","DOIUrl":"10.1093/eurjpc/zwae400","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12051,"journal":{"name":"European journal of preventive cardiology","volume":" ","pages":"937-938"},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2025-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12377041/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142834728","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Patricio Lopez-Jaramillo, Mavel Lopez-Flecher, Jose P Lopez-Lopez
{"title":"The positive impact of the Life's Essential 8 in the prevention of incident heart failure.","authors":"Patricio Lopez-Jaramillo, Mavel Lopez-Flecher, Jose P Lopez-Lopez","doi":"10.1093/eurjpc/zwaf066","DOIUrl":"10.1093/eurjpc/zwaf066","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12051,"journal":{"name":"European journal of preventive cardiology","volume":" ","pages":"991-992"},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2025-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143374087","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Stephan Mueller, Marina Kabelac, Isabel Fegers-Wustrow, Ephraim B Winzer, Andreas B Gevaert, Paul Beckers, Bernhard Haller, Frank Edelmann, Jeffrey W Christle, Mark J Haykowsky, Vandana Sachdev, Dalane W Kitzman, Axel Linke, Volker Adams, Ulrik Wisloff, Burkert Pieske, Emeline van Craenenbroeck, Martin Halle
{"title":"Comparison of exercise training modalities and change in peak oxygen consumption in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: a secondary analysis of the OptimEx-Clin trial.","authors":"Stephan Mueller, Marina Kabelac, Isabel Fegers-Wustrow, Ephraim B Winzer, Andreas B Gevaert, Paul Beckers, Bernhard Haller, Frank Edelmann, Jeffrey W Christle, Mark J Haykowsky, Vandana Sachdev, Dalane W Kitzman, Axel Linke, Volker Adams, Ulrik Wisloff, Burkert Pieske, Emeline van Craenenbroeck, Martin Halle","doi":"10.1093/eurjpc/zwae332","DOIUrl":"10.1093/eurjpc/zwae332","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Aims: </strong>Exercise training (ET) is an effective therapy in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF), but the influence of different ET characteristics is unclear. We aimed to evaluate the associations between ET frequency, duration, intensity [% heart rate reserve (%HRR)] and estimated energy expenditure (EEE) with the change in peak oxygen consumption (V̇O2) over 3 months of moderate continuous training (MCT, 5×/week) or high-intensity interval training (HIIT, 3×/week) in HFpEF.</p><p><strong>Methods and results: </strong>ET duration and heart rate (HR) were recorded with a smartphone application. EEE was calculated using the HR data during ET and the individual HR-V̇O2 relationships during cardiopulmonary exercise testing. Differences between groups and associations between ET characteristics and peak V̇O2 change were assessed with linear regression analyses. Peak V̇O2 improved by 9.2 ± 13.2% after MCT and 8.7 ± 15.9% after HIIT (P = 0.67). The average EEE of 1 HIIT session was equivalent to ∼1.42 MCT sessions and when adjusted for EEE, the mean difference between MCT and HIIT was -0.1% (P = 0.98). For both MCT and HIIT, peak V̇O2 change was positively associated with ET frequency (MCT: R2 = 0.103; HIIT: R2 = 0.149) and duration/week (MCT: R2 = 0.120; HIIT: R2 = 0.125; all P < 0.05). Average %HRR was negatively associated with peak V̇O2 change in MCT (R2 = 0.101; P = 0.034), whereas no significant association was found in HIIT (P = 0.234). Multiple regression analyses explained ∼1/3 of the variance in peak V̇O2 change.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>In HFpEF, isocaloric HIIT and MCT seem to be equally effective over 3 months. Within each mode, increasing ET frequency or duration/week may be more effective to improve peak V̇O2 than increasing ET intensity.</p>","PeriodicalId":12051,"journal":{"name":"European journal of preventive cardiology","volume":" ","pages":"926-936"},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2025-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142497598","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Iman A F Aboelsaad, Brian L Claggett, Victoria Lamberson, Pranav Dorbala, Kunihiro Matsushita, Pamela Lutsey, Bing Yu, Brandon W Lennep, Youssef M K Farag, Amil M Shah, Leo F Buckley
{"title":"Hepcidin, incident heart failure, and cardiac dysfunction in older adults: the ARIC study.","authors":"Iman A F Aboelsaad, Brian L Claggett, Victoria Lamberson, Pranav Dorbala, Kunihiro Matsushita, Pamela Lutsey, Bing Yu, Brandon W Lennep, Youssef M K Farag, Amil M Shah, Leo F Buckley","doi":"10.1093/eurjpc/zwaf018","DOIUrl":"10.1093/eurjpc/zwaf018","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Aims: </strong>Hepcidin regulates plasma and tissue iron levels. We studied the association of hepcidin levels with the risk of incident heart failure (HF) and cardiac dysfunction in older adults.</p><p><strong>Methods and results: </strong>We included adults from the ongoing, longitudinal Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study, who were free from prevalent anaemia and HF at Visit 5 (2011-13) and had available hepcidin and covariate data. Associations of plasma hepcidin levels with overall adjudicated incident HF, HF with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF), and HF with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) were assessed using multivariable Cox proportional hazards regression models. Cross-sectional associations of hepcidin with echocardiographic measures of cardiac structure and function were estimated using multivariable linear regression models. The mean age was 75 ± 5 years old, and 56% were women. In fully adjusted models, lower hepcidin levels were associated with a higher risk of overall incident HF [hazard ratio [HR] [95% confidence interval (CI) per 50% lower hepcidin]: 1.15 [1.05-1.26]; P = 0.003] and HFpEF [HR (95% CI): 1.25 (1.10-1.42); P = 0.001]. Plasma hepcidin level was not significantly associated with the risk of incident HFrEF [HR (95% CI): 1.08 (0.94-1.24); P = 0.30]. Lower hepcidin levels were associated with higher E wave (P = 0.046), higher E/e' ratio (P = 0.002), higher left atrial volume index (P = 0.005), and higher pulmonary artery systolic pressure (P = 0.02).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>In community-dwelling older adults without anaemia, lower plasma hepcidin levels associate with a higher risk of incident HF (particularly HFpEF) and diastolic dysfunction.</p>","PeriodicalId":12051,"journal":{"name":"European journal of preventive cardiology","volume":" ","pages":"993-1000"},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2025-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12264026/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143002848","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The evolving global burden of cardiovascular diseases: what lies ahead.","authors":"Vasiliki Tsampasian, Gerald S Bloomfield","doi":"10.1093/eurjpc/zwae330","DOIUrl":"10.1093/eurjpc/zwae330","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12051,"journal":{"name":"European journal of preventive cardiology","volume":" ","pages":"1016-1017"},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2025-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142375342","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nicolle Kränkel, Aycen Koc, Bita Astan, Sabine Kaczmarek, Kristin Lehnert, Anke Hannemann, Nele Friedrich, Kathrin Budde, Ann-Kristin Henning, Grazyna Domanska, Arash Haghikia, Stefan Gross, Christian Templin, Ulf Landmesser, Stephan B Felix, Marcus Dörr, Martin Bahls
{"title":"Immune-metabolic response to acute exercise in patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction.","authors":"Nicolle Kränkel, Aycen Koc, Bita Astan, Sabine Kaczmarek, Kristin Lehnert, Anke Hannemann, Nele Friedrich, Kathrin Budde, Ann-Kristin Henning, Grazyna Domanska, Arash Haghikia, Stefan Gross, Christian Templin, Ulf Landmesser, Stephan B Felix, Marcus Dörr, Martin Bahls","doi":"10.1093/eurjpc/zwaf171","DOIUrl":"10.1093/eurjpc/zwaf171","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12051,"journal":{"name":"European journal of preventive cardiology","volume":" ","pages":"1021-1023"},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2025-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143700076","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Association between Life's Essential 8 and risk of heart failure: findings from the Kailuan study.","authors":"Yang Liu, Maoxiang Zhao, Jinguo Jiang, Xinyi Peng, Donglei Luo, Shuohua Chen, Shouling Wu, Xueying Qin","doi":"10.1093/eurjpc/zwaf024","DOIUrl":"10.1093/eurjpc/zwaf024","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Aims: </strong>The impact of Life's Essential 8 (LE8) on heart failure (HF) remains poorly understood. We examined the associations between three forms of LE8 measurements and HF.</p><p><strong>Methods and results: </strong>A total of 35 896 participants without a prior history of HF from the Kailuan community were included. The LE8 status was measured in 2014. A latent mixture model was employed to identify the trajectories of LE8 during 2006 to 2014. The LE8 annual change rate was defined as the slope of the linear regression equation fitted by five LE8 measurements. Cox proportional hazards models were used to assess the risk of HF associated with LE8, after adjusting for potential confounding variables. The predictive performance was quantified and compared using the C-index. Five distinct LE8 trajectories were identified. 461 HF events documented during follow-up. The LE8 trajectories presenting an upward trend in LE8 were associated with a reduced risk of HF, even when the initial LE8 level was low [HR (95% confidence interval) for moderate-increasing vs. moderate-decreasing trajectory was 0.43 (0.34, 0.55)]. The LE8 status was inversely associated with HF risk. A higher LE8 annual increase was associated with a lower risk of HF. The LE8 trajectory was more accurate in predicting the risk of HF compared with LE8 status.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>LE8 was inversely associated with HF risk. Individuals with initially low LE8 levels experienced a reversal in HF risk upon improvement. Both LE8 trajectories and status are practicable in identifying individuals at high risk of HF, LE8 trajectories may provide added prognostic information.</p>","PeriodicalId":12051,"journal":{"name":"European journal of preventive cardiology","volume":" ","pages":"981-990"},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2025-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143188643","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Beyond absolute values: the association of LDL variability with cardiovascular risk.","authors":"Georg B Ehret","doi":"10.1093/eurjpc/zwaf439","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/eurjpc/zwaf439","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12051,"journal":{"name":"European journal of preventive cardiology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2025-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144947800","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}