December 2019 at a Glance: Economic Burden, Co-Morbidities, and Prognosis
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Abstract
Heart failure (HF) is associated with high healthcare costs, and trials to reduce them may be disappointing.1 Bundgaard et al.2 investigated direct and indirect costs of HF performing a 1:1 matched comparison between diseased and healthy subjects from the Danish nationwide registry. Patients with HF incurred an average of €17 039 in total annual direct (€11 926) and indirect (€5113) costs compared to €5936 in the control group, with most of the costs caused by hospitalizations. The cost related with HF peaked at the year of first diagnosis but started to increase as early as 2 years before diagnosis. Peripartum cardiomyopathy is a major complication of pregnancy.3 Moulig et al.4 reported 5-year results of their German registry. Most of the patients (95%) had an improvement in left ventricular function with 72% who achieved full recovery. Mortality was low (2%). Long-term use of HF drugs was observed in 70% of cases. We have no therapy for HF with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) and experimental models are difficult.5 Primessnig et al.6 tested a specific Na+/Ca2+ exchanger inhibitor in a rat model of HFpEF. Chronic treatment attenuated cardiac remodelling and diastolic dysfunction without no effect on blood pressure. Biomarkers predict prognosis in patients with acute HF.7 Wettersten et al.8 investigated the relationship between B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) and worsening renal function (WRF) and its prognostic implications in a multicentre registry of patients with acute HF. Decreased BNP was associated with better early and mid-term outcomes regardless of WRF, while WRF was associated with poorer outcomes only in patients with no BNP reduction. Different from a previous analysis based on pre-discharge values,9 plasma renin activity measured on admission had a modest, but significant, association with outcomes in patients with acute HF.10 Abnormal breathing control is associated with poor prognosis in chronic HF.11 The detection of oscillatory ventilation during exercise predicted cardiovascular death, urgent heart transplant, and ventricular assist device implantation in patients with HF and mid-range or reduced ejection fraction.12 Atrial fibrillation (AF) is associated with poorer outcomes and worse symptoms in HF patients.13 The role of the left atrium in this relationship is poorly known. Inciardi et al.14 investigated the association between left atrial (LA) structure/function and risk of cardiovascular death or HF hospitalization in patients with AF enrolled in the Effective Anticoagulation with Factor Xa Next Generation in AF-Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction 48 (ENGAGE AF-TIMI 48) trial. The composite endpoint occurred in 15% of patients at a median follow-up of 2.5 years. Measures of impaired LA function, LA emptying fraction and LA expansion index, were the only independent predictors of clinical events. Cancer is a common co-morbidity in HF patients.15 De Boer et al.16 reviewed the most recent data regarding the relationship between HF and cancer. This review analyses the epidemiology, risk factors and pathophysiological mechanisms shared by these two conditions. Vericiguat may improve symptoms and quality of life in patients with chronic HF.17 The Vericiguat Global Study in Patients with Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction (VICTORIA) trial will establish the impact of vericiguat on outcomes. Baseline characteristics of the patients enrolled in this trial are reported showing a high-risk population despite optimal medical treatment.18 Lung ultrasound (LUS) is a useful tool to evaluate clinical congestion in HF patients.19 In the LUS-HF trial patients admitted for HF were randomized to either standard therapy or LUS-guided therapy up to 6 months. Tailored LUS-guided therapy reduced the risk of the primary endpoint (urgent visit or hospitalization for HF or death) and improved functional capacity.20 Iung et al.21 reported the 2-year results of the Percutaneous Repair with the MitraClip Device for Severe Functional/Secondary Mitral Regurgitation (MITRA-FR) trial, confirming the lack of benefit of percutaneous edge-to-edge mitral valve repair over medical therapy in reducing death or unplanned HF hospitalization in this trial.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.002 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".