{"title":"Patient Focus: Understanding Muscle Wasting in Heart Failure: An Explanation of Consolidating Concepts from the Recent International Expert Consensus on Sarcopenia: Implications for Heart Failure Management.","authors":"Spencer Carter, Jennifer T Thibodeau","doi":"10.1016/j.cardfail.2025.06.008","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cardfail.2025.06.008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15204,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cardiac Failure","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144575549","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}
Soumya Banna, Alexander Thomas, Sarah Abou Alaiwi, Sanjana Garimella, Ethan Fraser
{"title":"Evolving Training Paradigms: The Critical Need for Advanced Heart Failure in the Contemporary CICU.","authors":"Soumya Banna, Alexander Thomas, Sarah Abou Alaiwi, Sanjana Garimella, Ethan Fraser","doi":"10.1016/j.cardfail.2025.05.016","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cardfail.2025.05.016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15204,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cardiac Failure","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144567479","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}
Jeffrey T Ha, Robert A Fletcher, Clare Arnott, Min Jun, Sradha S Kotwal, Vlado Perkovic, Sunil V Badve, Brendon L Neuen
{"title":"Albuminuria, Kidney Function and Heart Failure Risk in Type 2 Diabetes: Participant-level Pooled Analysis from the CANVAS Program and CREDENCE Trial.","authors":"Jeffrey T Ha, Robert A Fletcher, Clare Arnott, Min Jun, Sradha S Kotwal, Vlado Perkovic, Sunil V Badve, Brendon L Neuen","doi":"10.1016/j.cardfail.2025.05.021","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cardfail.2025.05.021","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15204,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cardiac Failure","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144564813","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":"Reconsidering the Clinical Integration of Lipoprotein(a) in Heart Failure Risk Models","authors":"XIA HE MM , YADI LI MD , XINMIN DENG MD","doi":"10.1016/j.cardfail.2025.04.009","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cardfail.2025.04.009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15204,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cardiac Failure","volume":"31 7","pages":"Pages 1096-1097"},"PeriodicalIF":6.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144132415","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}
OMAR MHAIMEED MD , ZEINA A. DARDARI MS , MICHAEL KHORSANDI MD , OMAR DZAYE MD, MPH , KAVITA SHARMA MD , KHURRAM NASIR MD, MPH, MSc , DANIEL S. BERMAN MD , MATTHEW J. BUDOFF MD , LESLEE J. SHAW PhD , JOHN A. RUMBERGER MD, PhD , MICHAEL D. MIEDEMA MD MPH , MICHAEL J. BLAHA MD MPH
{"title":"Coronary Artery Calcium for Risk Stratification of Heart Failure Mortality: The Coronary Artery Calcium Consortium","authors":"OMAR MHAIMEED MD , ZEINA A. DARDARI MS , MICHAEL KHORSANDI MD , OMAR DZAYE MD, MPH , KAVITA SHARMA MD , KHURRAM NASIR MD, MPH, MSc , DANIEL S. BERMAN MD , MATTHEW J. BUDOFF MD , LESLEE J. SHAW PhD , JOHN A. RUMBERGER MD, PhD , MICHAEL D. MIEDEMA MD MPH , MICHAEL J. BLAHA MD MPH","doi":"10.1016/j.cardfail.2024.10.437","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cardfail.2024.10.437","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>There is increasing interest in predicting heart failure (HF), a major cause of morbidity and mortality with a significant financial burden. The role of coronary artery calcium (CAC), an accessible and inexpensive test, in predicting long-term HF mortality among asymptomatic adults remains unknown. We aimed to determine whether CAC burden is associated with HF-related mortality in the CAC Consortium.</div></div><div><h3>Methods and Results</h3><div>The study included 66,636 primary prevention patients from the CAC Consortium. Multivariable competing risks regression was used to assess the association between CAC and HF-related mortality adjusting for demographics and traditional risk factors. The mean age was 54.4 years, 67% male, 89% White, and 55% had a CAC of >0. We observed 260 HF-related mortality events during a median follow up of 12.5 years; 75.3% occurred among those with a baseline CAC score of >100. Compared with a CAC of 0, there was a stepwise higher risk (<em>P</em> < .005) of HF mortality for a CAC of 1–100 (subdistribution hazard ratio [SHR] 2.27, 95% CI 1.3–3.99), 100–400 (SHR 3.68, 95% CI 2.1–6.43), and >400 (SHR 7.05, 95% CI 4.05–12.29). This increasing risk of HF mortality across higher CAC scores persisted across age groups, sex, and in the intermediate and high-risk groups as calculated by the pooled cohort equation and Predicting Risk of cardiovascular disease EVENTs (PREVENT) equation.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>A higher CAC is associated with an increasing incidence of long-term HF-related mortality in the primary prevention population, particularly intermediate and high-risk patients. Early preventive approaches in patients with high CAC must focus on preventing HF and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease with lifestyle changes and medications.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15204,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cardiac Failure","volume":"31 7","pages":"Pages 1005-1015"},"PeriodicalIF":6.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142639184","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}
NIR URIEL MD, MSc , JUSTIN FRIED MD , ADIL YUNIS MD , KEVIN CLERKIN MD , DOR LOTAN MD , BOAZ ELAD MD , NANCY KELLY PA, MBA , JAYANT RAIKHELKAR MD , DANIEL BURKHOFF MD, PhD , MARTIN LEON MD , MANREET K. KANWAR MD , GABRIEL T. SAYER MD
{"title":"The Role of Heart Failure Physicians in the Contemporary Cardiac Intensive Care Unit: Impact on Heart Failure as a Career Choice Among Fellowship Applicants","authors":"NIR URIEL MD, MSc , JUSTIN FRIED MD , ADIL YUNIS MD , KEVIN CLERKIN MD , DOR LOTAN MD , BOAZ ELAD MD , NANCY KELLY PA, MBA , JAYANT RAIKHELKAR MD , DANIEL BURKHOFF MD, PhD , MARTIN LEON MD , MANREET K. KANWAR MD , GABRIEL T. SAYER MD","doi":"10.1016/j.cardfail.2025.02.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cardfail.2025.02.006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15204,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cardiac Failure","volume":"31 7","pages":"Pages 1062-1067"},"PeriodicalIF":6.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143425506","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}