Publications by authors named "Bela Herczeg"
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- Heart failure poses significant health risks and costs due to frequent hospitalizations, necessitating high-quality care and disease-specific registries for better management and evaluation.
- The Hungarian Society of Cardiology has initiated the Hungarian Heart Failure Registry to collect comprehensive data on heart failure patients, aiming for a web-based database involving 2,000 patients from 17 cardiology departments.
- Preliminary results from 698 enrolled patients show a predominance of heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (87.8%), predominantly of ischemic origin, with common co-morbidities including hypertension and diabetes, and treatment largely involving ACE inhibitors or ARBs.
In the main Valsartan Antihypertensive Long-Term Use Evaluation (VALUE) report, we investigated outcomes in 15 245 high-risk hypertensive subjects treated with valsartan- or amlodipine-based regimens. In this report, we analyzed outcomes in 7080 patients (46.4%) who, at the end of the initial drug adjustment period (6 months), remained on monotherapy.
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