First Success For Heart Failure With Retained Ejection Fraction
The sodium-glucose co-transporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitor empagliflozin was recently shown to decrease the incidence of cardiac mortality or hospitalization for heart disease in individuals with cardiac failure and a decreased ventricular component in the EMPEROR-Reduced study. In individuals with cardiac failure and a maintained ventricular component (HFpEF) even without diabetes, empagliflozin reduces the risk of…