AHA Scientific Sessions 2024 Late-Breaking and Featured Science Collection

Published: 29 October 2024

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Overview

Keep up-to-date with our video collection covering the American Heart Association's 2024 Scientific Sessions in Chicago. For expert insights on the hottest late-breaking and featured science trials, tune in to our collection.

  • To catch reviews on the most awaited trials, watch our recurring series View From the ThoraxCenter, hosted by Prof Nicolas Van Mieghem and Dr Joost Daemen (Thoraxcenter, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, NL).
  • Watch out for the Late-Breaker Discussions with Dr Harriette Van Spall for key clinical trial data and its implications for future research.
  • Our concise Expert Interviews provide key data, study designs and take-home messages from select faculty.
  • Don't miss the key take aways from our Highlights series.

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Part 1

View From the Thoraxcenter

About the episode

AHA Conference 2024 - Discover the findings from a new study on the impact of diastolic dysfunction on the efficacy of empagliflozin in heart failure in the EMPEROR-Preserved trial. 

 

Prof Andrew Coats (Heart Research Institute, New South Wales, AU) joins us onsite at AHA Conference to discuss findings from a new analysis of diastolic dysfunction in the EMPEROR-Preserved trial (NCT03057951).

 

EMPEROR-Preserved was a phase 3, randomized, double-blind trial, where patients with HFpEF receive a daily dose of either empagliflozin, a sodium–glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitor, or placebo. In this analysis, researchers hypothesized that the objective evidence of diastolic dysfunction (DD) in HFpEF could predict the response to empagliflozin. DD was defined as the presence of LAVI ≥34 mL/m2, E/e ≥13 or LVMi >115 (males) or >95 (females). Baseline echocardiographic diastolic dysfunction incrementally predicted clinical response to Empagliflozin, suggesting a targeted mechanism of action on diastolic performance.

 

Interview Questions:
1.    What is the current research landscape for empagliflozin in treating HFpEF, and why is the trial important?
2.    What was the study design and patient population of EMPEROR-Preserved?
3.    What were the key findings?
4.    What are the take-home messages?
5.    What further research is needed in this area?

 

Recorded on-site at AHA Conference in Chicago, 2024.

Editors: Yazmin Sadik, Jordan Rance.
Videographers: Mike Knight, Dan Brent, Oliver Miles, Tom Green, David Ben-Harosh.

Support: This is an independent interview produced by Radcliffe Cardiology.

Faculty Biographies

Andrew JS Coats

Andrew JS Coats

Professor of Cardiology and Scientific Director

Prof Coats is Editor-in-Chief of the Cardiac Failure Review journal. He has published over 20 patents, more than 750 full research papers and more than 120,000 career citations and has a personal H-index of 146. Andrew was elected to the Presidential Trio of the Heart Failure Association of the ESC in 2018 and will serve as its president from 2020-2022.

Prof Coats is the Immediate past-President of the Heart Failure Association and past-Professor of Cardiology at the University of Warwick, UK. He has also held posts as Head of Cardiology at Imperial College, London and Associate Medical Director and Director of Cardiology at the Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals, London. From 2012 to 2017 he was Director of the Monash-Warwick Alliance, and before that served as Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Dean of Medicine at the University of Sydney.

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