While some heart failure medications are less effective in patients with concomitant atrial fibrillation, new research suggests that is not the case for dapagliflozin.

Patients impacted by this recall are advised to speak with a physician about how to proceed. 

Vaccine-related myocarditis was seen in approximately 0.00005% of children between the ages of 12 and 15. All cases were mild, and the median length of stay at the hospital was three days. 

Nirmatrelvir-ritonavir, sold by Pfizer under the name Paxlovid, is commonly prescribed to treat COVID-19. When treating some heart patients, however, physicians may want to consider an alternative approach.

Researchers explored data from nearly 20,000 patients, sharing their findings in Annals of Internal Medicine.

Deepak Bhatt, MD, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, details the new generation of cholesterol-lowering agents and their roles in patient care. 

“This systemic failure is a global tragedy, as many premature deaths from CVD could be avoided,” one cardiologist said. 

The new meta-analysis, published in Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, included data from 58 million patients. “We hope our findings will help mitigate vaccine hesitancy and increase vaccine uptake," one researcher said.