BTD: If a patient has a heart failure hospitalization, it is truly a red flag. It is sort of saying aloud that the condition is progressing or it’s worsening, it’s in deterioration.
It is a progressive disease, so if you have a heart failure hospitalization it is a very appropriate time to talk to your healthcare team about your chronic treatment strategy.
Managing Heart Failure
BDO: How can people manage it to help keep them out of the hospital?
BTD: 1. Limiting sodium or salt in your diet because salt turns your body into a sponge and you already have extra fluid. 2. We want you to stay physically active and have periods of activity with rest because we want you to work that heart a little bit. And lastly, 3. Medical therapy because there’s clear directed guideline medical therapy available to you.
As Michele mentioned before, Entresto, was actually in a very large clinical trial that proved to keep patients alive.
It also kept patients out of the hospital longer than a leading heart medication. There are even additional data recently that shows that this therapy can be used in patients that are hospitalized with heart failure after they’ve stabilized.
So, all of those are real simulations to that data, and it’s worth the consideration.
Medications
BDO: Is Entresto a medication that a lot of medical doctors already know about? Is this something that the patient would have to request from their healthcare provider?
BTD: It can depend on your provider, Entresto has been available on the market for several years now so clearly cardiologists and heart failure teams are