ArticleThe Egyptian heart journal : (EHJ) : official bulletin of the Egyptian Society of Cardiology2024
Evaluation of ivabradine plus beta-blocker versus beta-blocker alone in addition to standard care in reducing hospitalization and major adverse cardiovascular event in patients with chronic heart failure: a prospective observational study in tertiary care hospital in central India.
Article in The Egyptian heart journal : (EHJ) : official bulletin of the Egyptian Society of Cardiology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.
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- Correlation analysis of Serum NT-pro-BNP, IGFBP-7 and CTRP12 levels in chronic heart failure patients.Journal of medical biochemistry · 2026Article
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backgroundIn recent years, there has been an increase in cases of heart failure, ultimately leading to an increase in hospitalization for heart failure (HF) and cardiovascular mortality. The aim of our study was to evaluate ivabradine combined with beta-blocker versus beta-blocker alone in addition to standard care for chronic heart failure, followed for a period of 6 months for the rate of hospitalization and major adverse cardiovascular event (MACE) in patients with reduced left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF < 35%).
resultsA total of 64 patients were included in this observational study with 30 patients in the ivabradine + beta-blocker (IVA + BB) group and 34 in the beta-blocker (BB) group. The median (IQR) age of the study sample was 57 (50-62) and 58.5 (55-67) in IVA + BB and BB groups, respectively, with LVEF < 35%. The incidence of the primary endpoint of composite MACE (MI, stroke, death, worsening of HF) was 5 in both groups. The mean heart rate was significantly decreased (p < 0.001) at 3-month and 6-month follow-up from baseline in the ivabradine + beta-blocker group as compared to the beta-blocker group alone, while it significantly increased in the beta-blocker group at 3 months (p < 0.01) and also at sixth months (p < 0.05). Parameters such as the New York Heart Association (NYHA) class and the Minnesota Living with Heart Failure questionnaire (MLWHFQ) were also assessed but did not show significant change.
conclusionOverall, observations from the study results show that IVA + BB seems to be overall well tolerated in the study sample, with a somewhat smaller decrease in hospitalization and a delay in MACE events in the sample population enrolled in a tertiary care hospital in India. Further exploration in a larger sample is required concerning the Indian population.
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