Empagliflozin helps lower diastolic pulmonary artery pressure in patients who have heart failure with either reduced ejection fraction or preserved ejection fraction, regardless of diabetes status, according to results of the EMBRACE HF trial. Pressures were monitored remotely in patients who had an existing implanted device.

“We saw an early, significant effect on lowering pulmonary artery diastolic pressure that became apparent within a few weeks and continued to widen over time,” said Mikhail Kosiborod, MD, Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute, Kansas City, MO.

Pulmonary artery pressure is a strong predictor of clinical status, hospitalizations and death that had not previously been examined with sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors in this context, he added.

Read the full article on TCTMD: EMBRACE HF: Empagliflozin Cuts PA Pressure in HF With or Without Diabetes

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