The proportion of people with heart failure receiving optimal therapy increased significantly with expansion of this initiative within a general cardiology practice.

Guidelines regarding the management of patients with valvular heart disease have been published by the European Society of Cardiology and EACTS.

People with symptomatic heart failure may be able to reduce their risk of premature death by taking a drug originally designed for type 2 diabetes, according to new treatment guidelines from the ...

The American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association and the Heart Failure Society of America released new guidelines Friday that add a fourth class of medication to the recommended ...

(HealthDay News) — An updated clinical guideline adds 2 new types of drugs to the list of treatment options for heart failure. The updated guideline was published online in the Journal of the American ...

A focused update of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Heart Failure Guidelines is published online today in European Heart Journal following the results of major new trials that should change ...

Quality measurement in heart failure care encompasses both process and outcome metrics that guide clinical practice and organizational performance. Process metrics focus on evidence-based ...

The new guidelines encourage patients to reduce or eliminate alcohol consumption entirely, compared with the old guidelines.

The American College of Cardiology has updated care guidelines for patients hospitalized with heart failure, according to an Aug. 8 report published in the Journal of the American College of ...

Sept. 14, 2004 (Toronto) — Physicians will soon have more guidance when it comes to the management of heart failure with the use of angiontensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors and beta-blockers, ...

Inconsistent adherence to the guidelines led to delayed heart failure treatment optimization and underutilization of key therapies. Published in the European Journal of Heart Failure, the survey ...

Preventing heart attacks and strokes is very similar in women and men, with a few small but important differences, according to new guidelines from the American Heart Association. Each year, 55,000 ...