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Effect of fixed-dose combination of isosorbide dinitrate and hydralazine on all hospitalizations and on 30-day readmission rates in patients with heart failure: results from the African-American Heart Failure Trial.

Author(s): Anand IS(1), Win S(2), Rector TS(2), Cohn JN(2), Taylor AL(2).

Affiliation(s): Author information: (1)From the Medicine Service Line (I.S.A., S.W., J.N.C., A.L.T.) and Research Service Line (T.S.R.), VA Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN (I.S.A., T.S.R.); Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (I.S.A., S.W., T.S.R., J.N.C.); and Department of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY (A.L.T.). anand001@umn.edu. (2)From the Medicine Service Line (I.S.A., S.W., J.N.C., A.L.T.) and Research Service Line (T.S.R.), VA Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN (I.S.A., T.S.R.); Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (I.S.A., S.W., T.S.R., J.N.C.); and Department of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY (A.L.T.).

Publication date & source: 2014, Circ Heart Fail. , 7(5):759-65

BACKGROUND: Fixed-dose combination of isosorbide dinitrate and hydralazine (FDC-I/H) reduced mortality by 43% and death or first hospitalization for heart failure (HF) by 37% in the African-American Heart Failure Trial (A-HeFT). Reduction in mortality makes it difficult to determine the effect on hospitalizations unless the analysis adjusts for death as a competing risk. METHODS AND RESULTS: In A-HeFT, 1050 self-identified black patients with moderate to severe HF were randomized to FDC-I/H or placebo. The effects of FDC-I/H on first and all hospitalizations and 30-day readmission rates were analyzed. Deaths as competing risks were adjusted using Fine-Gray regression and joint models of hospitalizations and mortality. There were 558 all-cause and 251 HF hospitalizations in placebo compared with 435 and 173 hospitalizations in the FDC-I/H group. Adjusting for deaths as a competing risk, the effect of FDC-I/H on the first hospitalization for HF, expressed in hazard ratio (95% confidence interval), was 0.61 (0.47-0.80; P<0.001) and 0.88 (0.72-1.06; P=0.18) on the first all-cause hospitalization. The effect of FDC-I/H on all recurrent hospitalizations for HF was 0.66 (0.52-0.83; P=0.0005), similar to the effect on the first hospitalizations for HF, whereas the effect on all hospitalizations for any cause was 0.75 (0.63-0.91; P=0.003). The 30-day all-cause readmission rate after the first hospitalization for HF was 23.6% (29 of 123) in placebo versus 14.8% (12 of 81) in the FDC-I/H group, but the effect (0.59; 0.30-1.16; P=0.12) in this small subgroup was not significant. CONCLUSIONS: Treatment with FDC-I/H was associated with a substantial reduction in the first and recurrent HF hospitalizations, and in total all-cause hospitalizations, reducing the total burden of costly and distressing hospitalizations. CLINICAL TRIAL REGISTRATION URL: http://www.clinicaltrials.gov. Unique identifier: NCT00047775.

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