Jacob A Udell, Mark C Petrie, W Schuyler Jones, Stefan D Anker, Josephine Harrington, Michaela Mattheus, Svenja Seide, Offer Amir, M Cecilia Bahit, Johann Bauersachs, Antoni Bayes-Genis, Yundai Chen, Vijay K Chopra, Gemma Figtree, Junbo Ge, Shaun G Goodman, Nina Gotcheva, Shinya Goto, Tomasz Gasior, Waheed Jamal, James L Januzzi, Myung Ho Jeong, Yuri Lopatin, Renato D Lopes, Béla Merkely, Monica Martinez-Traba, Puja B Parikh, Alexander Parkhomenko, Piotr Ponikowski, Xavier Rossello, Morten Schou, Dragan Simic, Philippe Gabriel Steg, Joanna Szachniewicz, Peter van der Meer, Dragos Vinereanu, Shelley Zieroth, Martina Brueckmann, Mikhail Sumin, Deepak L Bhatt, Adrian F Hernandez, Javed Butler
BACKGROUND: Empagliflozin reduces the risk of heart failure (HF) hospitalizations but not all-cause mortality when started within 14 days of acute myocardial infarction (AMI). OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the association between left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF), congestion, or both on outcomes and the impact of empagliflozin in reducing HF risk post-MI. METHODS: In the EMPACT-MI trial, patients were randomized within 14 days of an AMI complicated by either newly reduced LVEF<45%, congestion, or both to empagliflozin 10 mg daily or placebo and followed for a median of 17...
April 1, 2024: Journal of the American College of Cardiology