Use of guideline-recommended medical therapy in patients with heart failure and chronic kidney disease : from physician's prescriptions to patient's dispensations, medication adherence and persistence

© 2022 The Authors. European Journal of Heart Failure published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of European Society of Cardiology..

AIM: Half of heart failure (HF) patients have chronic kidney disease (CKD) complicating their pharmacological management. We evaluated physicians' and patients' patterns of use of evidence-based medical therapies in HF across CKD stages.

METHODS AND RESULTS: We studied HF patients with reduced (HFrEF) and mildly reduced (HFmrEF) ejection fraction enrolled in the Swedish Heart Failure Registry in 2009-2018. We investigated the likelihood of physicians to prescribe guideline-recommended therapies to patients with CKD, and of patients to fill the prescriptions within 90 days of incident HF (initiating therapy), to adhere (proportion of days covered ≥80%) and persist (continued use) on these treatments during the first year of therapy. We identified 31 668 patients with HFrEF (median age 74 years, 46% CKD). The proportions receiving a prescription for angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors/angiotensin receptor blockers/angiotensin receptor-neprilysin inhibitors (ACEi/ARB/ARNi) were 96%, 92%, 86%, and 68%, for estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) ≥60, 45-59, 30-44, and <30 ml/min/1.73 m2 , respectively; for beta-blockers 94%, 93%, 92%, and 92%, for mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists (MRAs) 45%, 44%, 37%, 24%; and for triple therapy (combination of ACEi/ARB/ARNi + beta-blockers + MRA) 38%, 35%, 28%, and 15%. Patients with CKD were less likely to initiate these medications, and less likely to adhere to and persist on ACEi/ARB/ARNi, MRA, and triple therapy. Among stoppers, CKD patients were less likely to restart these medications. Results were consistent after multivariable adjustment and in patients with HFmrEF (n = 15 114).

CONCLUSIONS: Patients with HF and CKD are less likely to be prescribed and to fill prescriptions for evidence-based therapies, showing lower adherence and persistence, even at eGFR categories where these therapies are recommended and have shown efficacy in clinical trials.

Errataetall:

CommentIn: Eur J Heart Fail. 2022 Nov;24(11):2196-2198. - PMID 36130835

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:24

Enthalten in:

European journal of heart failure - 24(2022), 11 vom: 12. Nov., Seite 2185-2195

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Janse, Roemer J [VerfasserIn]
Fu, Edouard L [VerfasserIn]
Dahlström, Ulf [VerfasserIn]
Benson, Lina [VerfasserIn]
Lindholm, Bengt [VerfasserIn]
van Diepen, Merel [VerfasserIn]
Dekker, Friedo W [VerfasserIn]
Lund, Lars H [VerfasserIn]
Carrero, Juan-Jesus [VerfasserIn]
Savarese, Gianluigi [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Angiotensin Receptor Antagonists
Angiotensin receptor-neprilysin inhibitors
Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors
Beta-blockers
Chronic kidney disease
Heart failure
Journal Article
Mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists
Renin-angiotensin-aldosterone-system inhibitors
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 15.12.2022

Date Revised 13.04.2023

published: Print-Electronic

CommentIn: Eur J Heart Fail. 2022 Nov;24(11):2196-2198. - PMID 36130835

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1002/ejhf.2620

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM34371910X