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This episode discusses the continuum of prevention and heart failure with experts Dr. Anu Lala and Dr. Martha Gulati.

CardioNerds (Drs. Apoorva Gangavelli , Jenna Skowronski , and Hannah Every ) discuss the continuum of prevention and heart failure with Drs. Anu Lala and Martha Gulati . Grounded in a clinical case of a 55-year-old woman with uncontrolled hypertension, type 2 diabetes, and obesity who is on the trajectory toward heart failure, this episode unpacks a paradigm-shifting framework from a joint HFSA/ASPC Scientific Statement . The discussion explores how prevention should not be siloed from heart failure management but rather integrated across a patient’s lifespan—from primary prevention in at-risk individuals, to secondary prevention in those with established heart failure, to tertiary prevention in patients with advanced therapies such as LVADs and heart transplantation. The experts highlight the importance of aggressive risk factor management, biomarker-guided screening, the AHA’s Life’s Essential 8, and the need for multidisciplinary collaboration and systems-level change to shift heart failure care from reactive to proactive. Audio editing for this episode was performed by CardioNerds Intern,  Dr. Julia Marques Fernandes. Enjoy this Circulation 2022 Paths…

Topics covered

• heart failure
• prevention
• risk factor management
• multidisciplinary collaboration
• patient care
• hypertension
• diabetes

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