Relaxin for treatment of acute heart failure: Making the case for treating targeted patient profiles

Jaime A. Hernandez-Montfort, Sonali Arora, Mara T. Slawsky

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Abstract

Patients presenting with acute heart failure (AHF) represent a heterogeneous population with respect to demographics, clinical profiles, and precipitating factors. Despite this, most clinical trials have treated the study population as a homogeneous group in an attempt to achieve adequate statistical power for endpoint analysis. This approach has proven to be of little value in the development of new agents for treatment of AHF. By contrast, the phase III clinical trial of relaxin focused on a subset of AHF patients who were normotensive or hypertensive and who had moderate renal impairment. The study patients, who were primarily from Eastern Europe, represented a population that would be expected to have less genetic variability than the study populations in larger multinational AHF trials. A focused study design targeting specific patient profiles should be considered for future clinical AHF trials that investigate new therapies or compare the effectiveness of existing therapies.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)198-203
Number of pages6
JournalCurrent Heart Failure Reports
Volume10
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 2013
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Acute heart failure
  • Blood pressure
  • Clinical trials
  • Relaxin
  • Vasodilator

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
  • Physiology (medical)
  • Emergency Medicine

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