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The effect of diabetes on outcomes of patients with advanced heart failure in the BEST trial

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Domanski, Michael, Krause-Steinrauf, Heidi, Deedwania, Prakash, Follmann, Dean, Ghali, Jalal K, Gilbert, Edward, Haffner, Steven, Katz, Richard +5 more·2003·Journal of the American College of Cardiology

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Objectives This was a retrospective analysis to determine the effect of diabetes on outcome in patients with advanced heart failure (HF), and to determine the effect of beta-blockade in patients with HF with and without diabetes mellitus.Background In chronic HF the impact on clinical outcomes and therapeutic response of the prevalent comorbid condition diabetes mellitus has not been extensively investigated.Methods We assessed the impact of diabetes on prognosis and effectiveness of beta-blocker therapy with bucindolol in patients with HF enrolled in the Beta-Blocker Evaluation of Survival Trial (BEST). We conducted a retrospective analysis to examine the prognosis of patients with advanced HF with and without diabetes, and the effect of beta-blocker therapy on mortality and HF progression or myocardial infarction (MI). The database was the 2,708 patients with advanced HF (36% with diabetes and 64% without diabetes) who were randomized to the beta-blocker bucindolol or placebo in BEST and followed for mortality, hospitalization, and MI for an average of two years.Results Patients with diabetes had more severe chronic HF and more coronary risk factors than patients without diabetes. Diabetes was independently associated with increased mortality in patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy (adjusted hazard ratio 1.33, 95% confidence interval 1.12 to 1.58, p = 0.001), but not in those with a nonischemic etiology (adjusted hazard ratio 0.98, 95% confidence interval 0.74 to 1.30, p = 0.89). Compared with patients without diabetes, in diabetic patients beta-blocker therapy was at least as effective in reducing death or HF hospitalizations, total hospitalizations, HF hospitalizations, and MI. Ventricular function and physiologic responses to beta-blockade were similar in patients with and without diabetes.Conclusions Diabetes worsens prognosis in patients with advanced HF, but this worsening appears to be limited to patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy. In advanced HF beta-blockade is effective in reducing major clinical end points in patients with and without diabetes.

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Domanski, M., Krause-Steinrauf, H., Deedwania, P., Follmann, D., Ghali, J. K., Gilbert, E., Haffner, S., Katz, R., Lindenfeld, J., Lowes, B. D., Martin, W., McGrew, F., & Bristow, M. R.
Affiliations
  • National Institutes of Health (US)
  • National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (US)
  • Fresno VA Medical Center (US)
  • University of Utah (US)
  • The University of Texas at San Antonio Health Science Center (US)
  • George Washington University (US)
  • University of Colorado Denver (US)
  • St. Louis VA Medical Center (US)
  • Baptist Memorial Hospital (US)
Corresponding author
Domanski, Michael
Venue
Journal of the American College of Cardiology
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2003-09
Volume
42
Issue
5
Pages
914-922
ISSN
0735-1097 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2014986461
Cited by
215
References
34
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FWCI
5.93
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Journal of the American College of Cardiology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
  • National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine › Heart Failure Treatment and Management
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine › Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine › Heart rate and cardiovascular health
Keywords
diabetes mellitus, advanced heart failure, beta-blocker therapy, bucindolol, ischemic cardiomyopathy, mortality, heart failure hospitalization, myocardial infarction, prognosis, comorbidities
MeSH terms
Adrenergic beta-Antagonists, Adult, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Cause of Death, Female, Heart Failure, Hospitalization, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Prognosis, Propanolamines, Retrospective Studies, Risk Factors, Severity of Illness Index, Proportional Hazards Models, Survival Analysis, Heart Transplantation, Ventricular Function, Treatment Outcome, Disease Progression, Diabetes Complications

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