Publications by authors named "K Wegscheider"
Article Synopsis
- - The TIM-HF2 study showed that remote patient management (RPM) significantly reduces the number of days lost due to hospital admissions or death in heart failure (HF) patients, particularly those with diabetes, with hazard ratios indicating improved outcomes.
- - In a follow-up analysis including 707 HF patients with diabetes, RPM led to a notable decrease in unplanned cardiovascular hospitalizations and all-cause mortality compared to usual care, along with enhanced quality of life as measured by the Minnesota Living with Heart Failure Questionnaire.
- - Overall, the findings support implementing RPM for heart failure patients with diabetes to improve health outcomes and quality of life, indicating its effectiveness in a specific high-risk population.
Importance: Elevated values of high-sensitivity cardiac troponin (hs-cTn) are common in patients with acute ischemic stroke and are associated with poor prognosis. However, diagnostic and therapeutic implications in patients with ischemic stroke remain unclear.
Objective: To identify factors indicative of myocardial infarction (MI) in patients with acute ischemic stroke and hs-cTn elevation.
Aims: Clinical concerns exist about the potential proarrhythmic effects of the sodium channel blockers (SCBs) flecainide and propafenone in patients with cardiovascular disease. Sodium channel blockers were used to deliver early rhythm control (ERC) therapy in EAST-AFNET 4.
Methods And Results: We analysed the primary safety outcome (death, stroke, or serious adverse events related to rhythm control therapy) and primary efficacy outcome (cardiovascular death, stroke, and hospitalization for worsening of heart failure (HF) or acute coronary syndrome) during SCB intake for patients with ERC (n = 1395) in EAST-AFNET 4.
Aims: Atrial fibrillation (AF) and concomitant cardiometabolic disease processes interact and combine to lead to adverse events, such as stroke, heart failure, myocardial infarction, and cardiovascular death. Circulating biomolecules provide quantifiable proxies for cardiometabolic disease processes. The aim of this study was to test whether biomolecule combinations can define phenotypes in patients with AF.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Children of families with a parent with a mental illness have an increased risk of developing social and mental health problems resulting in decreased quality of life. Therefore, children and adolescents living in families with a parent with mental illness are regarded as a target group for preventive interventions. To date, only a few economic evaluation studies for interventions directed at preventing the intergenerational transmission of mental health problems exist.
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