Urban Alehagen

TL;DR: Long-term CoQ10 treatment of patients with chronic HF is safe, improves symptoms, and reduces major adverse cardiovascular events.

TL;DR: The Swedish Heart Failure Registry (S‐HFR) is an instrument which may help to optimize the handling of HF patients and help to diagnose and treat patients with heart failure.

TL;DR: Long-term supplementation of selenium/coenzyme Q10 reduces cardiovascular mortality and the positive effects could also be seen in NT-proBNP levels and on echocardiography.

TL;DR: Evaluating the association between plasma concentrations of copeptin, a surrogate marker of vasopressin, combined with concentrations of the N-terminal fragment of the precursor to B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP), and mortality in a cohort of elderly patients with symptoms of heart failure found a significant association with increased risk of all-cause mortality.

TL;DR: QRS prolongation is associated with other markers of severity in HF but is also an independent risk factor for all-cause mortality, providing a rationale for trials of CRT in HF with preserved EF.