HEART FAILURE HOSPITALIZATION (HFH) DESPITE DIGOXIN THERAPY VERSUS NO HFH DESPITE PLACEBO IN THE DIGITALIS INVESTIGATION GROUP (DIG) TRIAL: INSIGHTS INTO RISK FACTORS FOR HFH IN HF AND REDUCED EJECTION FRACTION (HFREF)

Autor: Phillip H. Lam, Daniel J. Dooley, Cherinne Arundel, Michelle White, Bertram Pitt, Wilbert S. Aronow, Javed Butler, Prakash Deedwania, Marc R. Blackman, Gregg Fonarow, Apostolos Tsimploulis, Aliy Ahmed, Charity J. Morgan, Wen-Chih Wu, Poonam Bhyan, Deepak L. Bhatt, Ioannis Kanonidis
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 69:911
ISSN: 0735-1097
Popis: Background: In the DIG trial, 6800 patients with HFrEF (EF≤45%) were randomized to receive either placebo (n=3403) or digoxin (n=3397) and followed for a mean of 37 months. Digoxin significantly reduced the risk of HFH by 28% (HR, 0.72; 95% CI, 0.66–0.79). However, 27% of patients in the digoxin
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