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Marc A. Pfeffer
Researcher at Brigham and Women's Hospital
Publications - 815
Citations - 143710
Marc A. Pfeffer is an academic researcher from Brigham and Women's Hospital. The author has contributed to research in topics: Heart failure & Myocardial infarction. The author has an hindex of 166, co-authored 765 publications receiving 133043 citations. Previous affiliations of Marc A. Pfeffer include Partners HealthCare & University of Miami.
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Race and ethnicity influences on cardiovascular and renal events in patients with diabetes mellitus
Eldrin F. Lewis,Brian Claggett,Patrick S. Parfrey,Emmanuel A. Burdmann,John J.V. McMurray,Scott D. Solomon,Andrew S. Levey,Peter Ivanovich,Kai-Uwe Eckardt,Reshma Kewalramani,Robert D. Toto,Marc A. Pfeffer +11 more
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Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibition in congestive heart failure: Benefit and perspective
Marc A. Pfeffer,Marc A. Pfeffer +1 more
TL;DR: Key studies that have documented the efficacy of ACE inhibitors in improving clinical outcome for patients with overt congestive heart failure, as well as for those with asymptomatic left ventricular dysfunction are reviewed.
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Racial Differences in Characteristics and Outcomes of Patients With Heart Failure and Preserved Ejection Fraction in the Treatment of Preserved Cardiac Function Heart Failure Trial.
Eldrin F. Lewis,Brian Claggett,Amil M. Shah,Jiankang Liu,Sanjiv J. Shah,Inder Anand,Eileen O'Meara,Nancy K. Sweitzer,Jean L. Rouleau,James C. Fang,Akshay S. Desai,Tamrat M. Retta,Scott D. Solomon,John F. Heitner,Thomas D. Stamos,Robin Boineau,Bertram Pitt,Marc A. Pfeffer +17 more
TL;DR: Black patients with HFpEF have a higher HF hospitalization risk than nonblack patients, but spironolactone is similarly effective and safe in both groups, according to self-described black and nonblack race.
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Resource use, costs, and quality of life among patients in the multinational Valsartan in Acute Myocardial Infarction Trial (VALIANT)
Shelby D. Reed,Jasmina I. Radeva,Kevin P. Weinfurt,John J.V. McMurray,Marc A. Pfeffer,Eric J. Velazquez,Jennifer S. Allsbrook,Leah E. Masselink,Mary Ann Sellers,Robert M. Califf,Kevin A. Schulman +10 more
TL;DR: For most patients at high risk after MI, the availability of generic captopril confers a cost advantage over valsartan because of lower medication costs, which will be smaller or nonexistent in settings where brand-name ACE inhibitors are prescribed.
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Patient perception of the effect of treatment with candesartan in heart failure. Results of the candesartan in heart failure: assessment of reduction in mortality and morbidity (CHARM) programme.
Eileen O'Meara,Eldrin F. Lewis,Christopher B. Granger,Mark E. Dunlap,Robert S. McKelvie,Jeffrey L. Probstfield,James B. Young,Eric L. Michelson,Jan Östergren,Jonas Carlsson,Bertil Olofsson,John J.V. McMurray,Salim Yusuf,Karl Swedberg,Marc A. Pfeffer +14 more
TL;DR: To evaluate the effect of the angiotensin receptor blocker candesartan on patients' perception of symptoms, using the McMaster Overall treatment evaluation (OTE), in a broad spectrum of patients with chronic heart failure (CHF).