Expert Conversations: SBP in Patients With HFrEF

In this podcast, Cherinne Arundel, MD, and her colleague Phillip Lam, MD, discuss their latest research study about systolic blood pressure and outcomes in patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction.

Additional Resources:

• Arundel C, Lam PH, Gill GS, et al. Systolic blood pressure and outcomes in patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2019;73(24):3054-3063. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2019.04.022. 
• Tsimploulis A, Lam PH, Arundel C, et al. Systolic blood pressure and outcomes in patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction. JAMA Cardiol. 2018;3(4):288-297. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamacardio.2017.5365. 
• Whelton PK, Carey RM, Aronow WS, et al. 2017 ACC/AHA/AAPA/ABC/ACPM/AGS/APhA/ASH/ASPC/NMA/PCNA guideline for the prevention, detection, evaluation, and management of high blood pressure in adults: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Clinical Practice Guidelines. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2018;71(19). doi:10.1016/j.jacc.2017.11.006.

Cherinne Arundel, MD, is chief of the Hospitalist Section of the Washington DC VA Medical Center and an associate professor of medicine at the George Washington University in Washington, DC.

Phillip H. Lam, MD, is new faculty in the Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology Department at the MedStar Heart & Vascular Institute at the Washington Hospital Center in Washington, DC.