Journal of cardiac failure
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Multicenter Study
Dietary habits are related to outcomes in patients with advanced heart failure awaiting heart transplantation.
Empirical evidence supporting the benefits of dietary recommendations for patients with advanced heart failure is scarce. We prospectively evaluated the relation of dietary habits to pre-transplant clinical outcomes in the multisite observational Waiting for a New Heart Study. ⋯ These results support the importance of dietary habits for the prognosis of patients listed for heart transplantation, independently from heart failure severity.
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Chronic kidney disease (CKD) and sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) play critical roles in the progression of chronic heart failure (CHF). However, it still remains unclear whether adaptive servoventilation (ASV) improves cardiorenal function and the prognosis of CHF patients with CKD and SDB. ⋯ ASV improves the prognosis of CHF patients with CKD and SDB, with favorable effects such as the improvement of cardiorenal function and attenuation of inflammation and sympathetic nervous activity.