Patients who have been treated for heart failure and experience an improvement of their pump function, are still at higher risk of heart-related death or hospitalization if they stop taking heart failure medications. This is according to a new study from Karolinska Institutet published in the top-ranked journal Circulation.
“Our finding raises awareness about the importance of implementing and not withdrawing medical treatments in daily clinical practice even if patients with heart failure experience an improvement in symptoms and pump function,” says the study’s last author Gianluigi Savarese, docent and senior lecturer at the Department of Clinical Science and Education, Södersjukhuset, Karolinska Institutet and senior cardiologist at Södersjukhuset.
Using data from the Swedish Heart Failure…