{"title":"Commentary on 'effect of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists on heart failure outcomes and cardiovascular death across varying cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic comorbidity'.","authors":"Yuxin Liang, Xiaoyang Wang, Zhijun Meng","doi":"10.1093/ejhf/xuaf022","DOIUrl":"10.1093/ejhf/xuaf022","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":164,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Heart Failure","volume":" ","pages":"147-148"},"PeriodicalIF":10.8,"publicationDate":"2026-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147343130","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}
Johann Bauersachs, Gianluigi Savarese, Michael Böhm, Stefan D Anker, Antoni Bayes-Genis, Dirk J Van Veldhuisen, Udo Bavendiek
{"title":"Digitalis - back on centre stage for HFrEF.","authors":"Johann Bauersachs, Gianluigi Savarese, Michael Böhm, Stefan D Anker, Antoni Bayes-Genis, Dirk J Van Veldhuisen, Udo Bavendiek","doi":"10.1093/ejhf/xuaf002","DOIUrl":"10.1093/ejhf/xuaf002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":164,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Heart Failure","volume":" ","pages":"22-25"},"PeriodicalIF":10.8,"publicationDate":"2026-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147343166","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}
{"title":"Response to Dr Gau's letter to the editor regarding our study, 'Evaluating early cardiology involvement and survival outcomes across NT-proBNP levels: an island-wide retrospective cohort study'.","authors":"John A Henry","doi":"10.1093/ejhf/xuaf003","DOIUrl":"10.1093/ejhf/xuaf003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":164,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Heart Failure","volume":" ","pages":"146"},"PeriodicalIF":10.8,"publicationDate":"2026-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147343192","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}
Aldostefano Porcari, Marco Merlo, Gianfranco Sinagra
{"title":"Response to 'Interpreting tafamidis effectiveness within the evolving phenotype of contemporary ATTRwt cardiomyopathy'.","authors":"Aldostefano Porcari, Marco Merlo, Gianfranco Sinagra","doi":"10.1093/ejhf/xuag021","DOIUrl":"10.1093/ejhf/xuag021","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":164,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Heart Failure","volume":" ","pages":"113-114"},"PeriodicalIF":10.8,"publicationDate":"2026-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147343231","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}
{"title":"Finerenone across the HFpEF and HFmrEF spectrum: a step towards multi-pillar care?","authors":"Marco Merlo, Elisa Soranzo, Gianfranco Sinagra","doi":"10.1093/ejhf/xuaf021","DOIUrl":"10.1093/ejhf/xuaf021","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":164,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Heart Failure","volume":" ","pages":"39-40"},"PeriodicalIF":10.8,"publicationDate":"2026-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147343121","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}
{"title":"Evidence-based medical therapy after structural interventions: when remaining proactive for heart failure medications can save lives.","authors":"Mehmet Birhan Yilmaz, Marco Metra","doi":"10.1093/ejhf/xuag001","DOIUrl":"10.1093/ejhf/xuag001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":164,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Heart Failure","volume":" ","pages":"82-84"},"PeriodicalIF":10.8,"publicationDate":"2026-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147343148","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}
{"title":"Possible ways of building trial-level evidence for heart failure therapies in cardiac amyloidosis.","authors":"Alberto Aimo, Daniela Tomasoni, Marianna Fontana","doi":"10.1093/ejhf/xuag019","DOIUrl":"10.1093/ejhf/xuag019","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":164,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Heart Failure","volume":" ","pages":"108-110"},"PeriodicalIF":10.8,"publicationDate":"2026-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147343151","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}
Li Shen, Liwen Shen, Iokfai Cheang, Wenming Yao, Xu Zhu, Yue Zhang, Ying Yang, Qilin Li, Haifeng Zhang, Mark C Petrie, Carolyn S P Lam, Pardeep S Jhund, John J V McMurray, Xinli Li
{"title":"The efficacy and safety of qiliqiangxin according to baseline ejection fraction in patients with heart failure and reduced ejection fraction in QUEST.","authors":"Li Shen, Liwen Shen, Iokfai Cheang, Wenming Yao, Xu Zhu, Yue Zhang, Ying Yang, Qilin Li, Haifeng Zhang, Mark C Petrie, Carolyn S P Lam, Pardeep S Jhund, John J V McMurray, Xinli Li","doi":"10.1093/ejhf/xuaf017","DOIUrl":"10.1093/ejhf/xuaf017","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Aims: </strong>Qiliqiangxin (QLQX), a Chinese traditional medicine, improved outcomes in patients with heart failure and reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) when added to guideline-directed therapy. As treatment effects in heart failure (HF) may vary with left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF), this post hoc analysis of the QUEST (Qiliqiangxin in Heart Failure: Assessment of Reduction in Mortality) trial examined whether baseline LVEF modified the efficacy and safety of QLQX.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>QUEST randomized 3110 patients with symptomatic HF and LVEF ≤40%. The primary outcome was cardiovascular death or first HF hospitalization. Baseline LVEF was categorized as ≤25% (n = 482), >25-30% (n = 692), >30-35% (n = 829), and >35% (n = 1107).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Mean LVEF was 32% (median 33%, interquartile range 28%-37%). Patients with LVEF ≤25% had the highest rate of the primary outcome (25.4 per 100 patient-years), while rates were similar across higher LVEF groups (18.7-19.8). After multivariable adjustment, lower LVEF was independently associated with higher risks of the primary outcome and mortality. The effect of QLQX on the primary outcome was consistent across LVEF categories (hazard ratio [95% CI] from the lowest to highest: 0.91 [0.64-1.30], 0.65 [0.47-0.89], 0.94 [0.71-1.26], and 0.71 [0.55-0.91], respectively; Pinteraction = .28), and as a continuous variable (Pinteraction = .45). Similar results were observed for individual components and total HF hospitalizations (all Pinteraction > .10). The safety of QLQX was also consistent across LVEF categories.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>In patients with HFrEF, lower LVEF was associated with worse cardiovascular outcomes. QLQX reduced cardiovascular events consistently across the range of LVEF examined in QUEST, despite the limited use of sodium-glucose co-transporter 2 inhibitors.</p><p><strong>Chictr registration: </strong>ChiCTR1900021929.</p>","PeriodicalId":164,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Heart Failure","volume":" ","pages":"45-57"},"PeriodicalIF":10.8,"publicationDate":"2026-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147343168","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}
Jörn M Schattenberg, Julian Chalabi, Yvonne Huber, Thomas Köck, Philipp Wild
{"title":"Response to Letter EURJHF-25-1455.","authors":"Jörn M Schattenberg, Julian Chalabi, Yvonne Huber, Thomas Köck, Philipp Wild","doi":"10.1093/ejhf/xuaf014","DOIUrl":"10.1093/ejhf/xuaf014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":164,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Heart Failure","volume":" ","pages":"153-154"},"PeriodicalIF":10.8,"publicationDate":"2026-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147343257","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}
Felix Hohendanner, Ajay M Shah, Sophie Van Linthout
{"title":"From Mechanics to Mitochondria: Dyssynchronous Heart Failure as an Energetic Disease.","authors":"Felix Hohendanner, Ajay M Shah, Sophie Van Linthout","doi":"10.1093/ejhf/xuag135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ejhf/xuag135","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":164,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Heart Failure","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.8,"publicationDate":"2026-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147808941","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}