Nutritional support for chronic heart failure

Nutritional intake and oxidative stress in chronic heart failure.

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Patients with chronic heart failure (CHF) are known to be at risk of malnutrition, and cardiac cachexia is an adverse prognostic indicator. The aim of this study was to determine the dietary adequacy of CHF patients compared with Dietary Reference Values, to compare the nutritional intake and status of CHF patients to a healthy comparison group, and finally to determine whet...

Is nutritional intake adequate in chronic heart failure patients?

OBJECTIVES The goal of this study was to investigate the nutrition adequacy and energy availability for physical activity in free-living, clinically stable patients with chronic heart failure (CHF). BACKGROUND Little information exists regarding the nutrition adequacy and alimentary habits of patients with clinically stable CHF. We hypothesized that CHF patients have an inadequate intake of c...

New data support ivabradine use in chronic heart failure.

Emerging Drug Therapies for Heart Failure

Heart failure is associated with high morbidity and mortality and is proving to be an economic burden in developing countries. A number of therapeutic agents are presently employed in heart failure; but they are not sufficient to control symptoms of heart failure. Moreover, the prevalence of chronic heart failure is progressively increasing and thus there is a continuing need to develop effecti...

Chronic heart failure guidelines.

I read the editorial of M. R. Cowie with great interest. The figures on the prognosis of heart failure were admirably clear. Nobody can deny the grim prognosis of heart failure patients, as reported by Mosterd and colleagues in the article to which the editorial refers. Cowie identifies patients who are likely to do especially badly: the very old, those with impaired renal function, diabetes an...