Why Don't We Have Proven Treatments for HFpEF?

Roh, Jason; Houstis, Nicholas; Rosenzweig, Anthony · Circ Res · 2017

expert_opinion · Level V

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Abstract

The lack of effective treatments for heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) represents a large and growing unmet need in cardiology today. A critical obstacle to therapeutic innovation in HFpEF has been the absence of animal models that accurately recapitulate the complexities of the human disease. Here we propose that more comprehensive multi-organ system and functional phenotyping of preclinical models is essential if we are to maximize our chances of discovering and validating novel targets for effective therapeutic development in HFpEF.

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