The study's authors warned that excess deaths may continue to rise if states don't learn any lessons from the last year. 

The findings, published in JAMA Cardiology, confirm that dapagliflozin is a safe, effective treatment option for patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction.

The study's authors tracked the health of more than 134,000 individuals from 21 countries for nearly a decade. 

The ongoing saga continues. Both Germany and Canada have now limited the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine among younger adults. 

The authors tracked outcomes from more than 386,000 patients treated from 2001 to 2018, sharing their findings in Hypertension.

“Value can be defined as delivered care divided by cost,” the specialists wrote. “Ideally, each patient receives the same good quality of care in an equitable, timely way.”

One important detail, however, was that acute kidney injury was more common for kidney transplant recipients. The researchers listed numerous potential explanations for this trend.

The analysis, published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, tracked nearly 1,000 patients treated for their first myocardial infarction from November 1995 to October 1997.