Impact of a Novel Wearable Sensor on Heart Failure Rehospitalization: An Open-Label Concurrent-Control Clinical Trial.

Background: There is an unmet need for early detection of heart failure decompensation, allowing patients to be managed remotely and avoid hospitalization.

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to compare a strategy utilizing data from a wearable HF sensor for management following a HF hospitalization to usual care.

Methods: Eligible subjects were discharged from the hospital within the previous 10 days and had a HF event in the previous 6 months.

Baroreflex Function in Cardiovascular Disease.

The baroreflex system is involved in modulating several physiological functions of the cardiovascular system and can modulate cardiac output, blood pressure, and cardiac electrophysiology directly and indirectly. In addition, it is involved in regulating neurohormonal pathways involved in the cardiovascular function, such as the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system and vasopressin release. Baroreflex dysfunction is characterized by sympathetic overactivation and parasympathetic withdrawal and is associated with several cardiovascular diseases, such as hypertension, heart failure, and coronary artery disease.

Neoadjuvant androgen deprivation therapy with or without Fc-enhanced non-fucosylated anti-CTLA-4 (BMS-986218) in high risk localized prostate cancer: a randomized phase 1 trial.

Men with high-risk localized prostate cancer exhibit high rates of post-surgical recurrence. In these patients, androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) is immunomodulatory, however increased infiltration of regulatory T cells (Tregs) may limit the antitumor immune effects of ADT. We designed a neoadjuvant clinical trial to test whether BMS-986218 - a next-generation non-fucosylated anti-CTLA-4 antibody engineered for enhanced antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity or phagocytosis (ADCC/P) - depletes intratumoral Tregs and augments the response to ADT.

Androgen Deprivation Therapy Drives a Distinct Immune Phenotype in Localized Prostate Cancer.

Purpose: Androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) remains the backbone of prostate cancer treatment. Beyond the suppression of testosterone and tumor cell growth, emerging evidence suggests that ADT also modulates the immune tumor microenvironment. However, a more precise understanding of the timing and intricacies of these immunologic shifts is needed.