The year in cardiovascular medicine 2022: the top 10 papers in heart failure and cardiomyopathies
1. Voors AA, Angermann CE, Teerlink JR, Collins SP, Kosiborod M, Biegus J, et al. The SGLT2 inhibitor empagliflozin in patients hospitalized for acute heart failure: a multinational randomized trial. Nat Med 2022;28:568–574. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591- 021-01659-1. The results suggest that the initiation of empagliflozin as part of usual care in patients who are hospitalized for acute heart failure will result in a clinically meaningful benefit in 90 days without safety concerns.
2. Solomon SD, McMurray JJV, Claggett B, de Boer RA, DeMets D, Hernandez AF, et al. Dapagliflozin in heart failure with mildly reduced and preserved ejection fraction. N Engl J Med 2022;387:1089–1098. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa2206286. Dapagliflozin reduced the combined risk of worsening heart failure or cardiovascular death among patients with heart failure and a mildly reduced or preserved ejection fraction.
3. Jhund PS, Kondo T, Butt JH, Docherty KF, Claggett BL, Desai AS, et al. Dapagliflozin and outcomes across the range of ejection fraction in patients with heart failure: a pooled analysis of DAPA-HF and DELIVER. Nat Med 2022 (9):1956-1964. https://doi. org/10. 1038/s41591-022-01971-4. In a patient-level pooled meta-analysis covering the full range of ejection fractions in patients with heart failure, dapagliflozin reduced the risk of death from cardiovascular causes and hospital admissions for heart failure.