Clarify New Heart Failure Terms and Management

The “alphabet soup” to classify patients with heart failure will continue to expand...due to updated guidelines.

We’re getting used to hearing that heart failure with REDUCED ejection fraction (HFrEF) is an EF of 40% or less...and heart failure with PRESERVED ejection fraction (HFpEF) is an EF of 50% or higher.

But many patients fall in the gray area between these cutoffs...and there are less data about how to treat them.