Have a personal or library account? Click to login
Screening for Heart Failure in Patients with Hypertension And/Or Diabetes Using Hand-Held Echocardiography: A Pilot Study Cover

Screening for Heart Failure in Patients with Hypertension And/Or Diabetes Using Hand-Held Echocardiography: A Pilot Study

Open Access
|Jun 2025

References

  1. Wang H, Chai K, Du M, Wang S, Cai JP, Li Y, et al. Prevalence and incidence of heart failure among urban patients in China: A national population-based analysis. Circ Heart Fail. 2021;14(10):e008406. DOI: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.121.008406
  2. Heidenreich PA, Bozkurt B, Aguilar D, Allen LA, Byun JJ, Colvin MM, et al. 2022 AHA/ACC/HFSA guideline for the management of heart failure: A report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Joint Committee on clinical practice guidelines. Circulation. 2022;145(18):e895e1032. DOI: 10.1161/CIR.0000000000001063
  3. Averina M, Stylidis M, Brox J, Schirmer H. NT-ProBNP and high-sensitivity troponin T as screening tests for subclinical chronic heart failure in a general population. ESC Heart Fail. 2022;9(3):19541962. DOI: 10.1002/ehf2.13906
  4. Adabifirouzjaei F, Kimura BJ, Khazai B, DeMaria AN. Handheld ultrasonography in cardiovascular medicine, updates and controversies. Prog Cardiovasc Dis. 2022;74:7079. DOI: 10.1016/j.pcad.2022.10.012
  5. The Writing Committee Of The Report On Cardiovascular Health And Diseases In China, Hu SS. Report on cardiovascular health and diseases in China 2021: An updated summary. J Geriatr Cardiol. 2023;20(6):399430. DOI: 10.26599/1671-5411.2023.06.001
  6. Li X, Krumholz HM, Yip W, Cheng KK, De Maeseneer J, et al. Quality of primary health care in China: Challenges and recommendations. Lancet. 2020;395(10239):18021812. DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30122-7
  7. Mitchell C, Rahko PS, Blauwet LA, Canaday B, Finstuen JA, Foster MC, et al. Guidelines for performing a comprehensive transthoracic echocardiographic examination in adults: Recommendations from the American Society of Echocardiography. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2019;32(1):164. DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2018.06.004
  8. Mercaldo ND, Lau KF, Zhou XH. Confidence intervals for predictive values with an emphasis to case-control studies. Stat Med. 2007;26(10):21702183. DOI: 10.1002/sim.2677
  9. Ammar KA, Jacobsen SJ, Mahoney DW, Kors JA, Redfield MM, Burnett JC, et al. Prevalence and prognostic significance of heart failure stages: application of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association heart failure staging criteria in the community. Circulation. 2007;115(12):15631570. DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.106.666818
  10. Shah AM, Claggett B, Loehr LR, Chang PP, Matsushita, K, Kitzman D, et al. Heart failure stages among older adults in the community: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study. Circulation. 2017;135(3):224240. DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.116.023361
  11. Vasan RS, Musani SK, Matsushita K, Beard W, Obafemi OB, Butler KR, et al. Epidemiology of heart failure stages in middle-aged black people in the community: Prevalence and Prognosis in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study. J Am Heart Assoc. 2021;10(9):e016524. DOI: 10.1161/JAHA.120.016524
  12. Xanthakis V, Enserro DM, Larson MG, Wollert KC, Januzzi JL, Levy D, et al. Prevalence, neurohormonal correlates, and prognosis of heart failure stages in the community. JACC Heart Fail. 2016;4(10):808815. DOI: 10.1016/j.jchf.2016.05.001
  13. Parveen S, Zareini B, Arulmurugananthavadivel A, Kistorp C, Faber J, Køber L, et al. Association between early detected heart failure stages and future cardiovascular and non-cardiovascular events in the elderly (Copenhagen Heart Failure Risk Study). BMC Geriatr. 2022;22(1):230. DOI: 10.1186/s12877-022-02875-1
  14. Nambi V, Deswal A, Ballantyne CM. Prevention of “failure”: Is it a failure of prevention? Circulation. 2018;137(2):106108. DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.117.030645
  15. Ledwidge M, Gallagher J, Conlon C, Tallon E, O’Connell E, Dawkins I, et al. Natriuretic peptide-based screening and collaborative care for heart failure: The STOP-HF Randomized Trial. JAMA. 2013;310(1):6674. DOI: 10.1001/jama.2013.7588
  16. Wright AK, Carr MJ, Kontopantelis E, Leelarathna L, Thabit H, Emsley R, et al. Primary prevention of cardiovascular and heart failure events with SGLT2 inhibitors, GLP-1 receptor agonists, and their combination in type 2 diabetes. Diabetes Care. 2022;45(4):909918. DOI: 10.2337/dc21-1113
  17. Vasan RS, Urbina EM, Jin L, Xanthakis V. Prognostic significance of echocardiographic measures of cardiac remodeling in the community. Curr Cardiol Rep. 2021;23(7):86. DOI: 10.1007/s11886-021-01512-4
  18. Ghany R, Tamariz L, Chen G, Ghany A, Forbes E, Tajiri T, et al. Screening echocardiograms in a senior focused value based primary care improves systolic heart failure detection and clinical management. Cardiovasc Diagn Ther. 2017;7(3):236243. DOI: 10.21037/cdt.2017.03.09
  19. Galasko GI, Lahiri A, Senior R. Portable echocardiography: An innovative tool in screening for cardiac abnormalities in the community. Eur J Echocardiogr. 2003;4(2):119127. DOI: 10.1053/euje.2002.0627
  20. Yang H, Negishi K, Wang Y, Nolan M, Saito M, Marwick TH. Echocardiographic screening for non-ischaemic stage B heart failure in the community. Eur J Heart Fail. 2016;18(11):13311339. DOI: 10.1002/ejhf.643
  21. Wang Y, Yang H, Huynh Q, Nolan M, Negishi K, Marwick TH. Diagnosis of nonischemic stage B heart failure in type 2 diabetes mellitus: Optimal parameters for prediction of heart failure. JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2018;11(10):13901400. DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2018.03.015
  22. Nascimento BR, Beaton AZ, Pereira Nunes MC, Tompsett AR, Oliveira KBK, Diamantino AC, et al. Integration of echocardiographic screening by non-physicians with remote reading in primary care. Heart. 2019;105(4):283290. DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2018-313593
  23. Magelssen MI, Palmer CL, Hjorth-Hansen A, Nilsen HO, Kiss G, Torp H, et al. Feasibility and reliability of automatic quantitative analyses of mitral annular plane systolic excursion by handheld ultrasound devices: A pilot study. J Ultrasound Med. 2021;40(2):341350. DOI: 10.1002/jum.15408
  24. Nakamura M, Tanaka F, Yonezawa S, Satou K, Nagano M, Hiramori K. The limited value of plasma B-type natriuretic peptide for screening for left ventricular hypertrophy among hypertensive patients. Am J Hypertens. 2003;16(12):10251029. DOI: 10.1016/j.amjhyper.2003.07.024
  25. Somaratne JB, Whalley GA, Poppe KK, ter Bals MM, Wadams G, Pearl A, et al. Screening for left ventricular hypertrophy in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus in the community. Cardiovasc Diabetol. 2011;10:29. DOI: 10.1186/1475-2840-10-29
  26. Mureddu GF, Tarantini L, Agabiti N, Faggiano P, Masson S, Latini R, et al. Evaluation of different strategies for identifying asymptomatic left ventricular dysfunction and pre-clinical (stage B) heart failure in the elderly. Results from ‘PREDICTOR’, a population based-study in central Italy. Eur J Heart Fail. 2013;15(10):11021112. DOI: 10.1093/eurjhf/hft098
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/gh.1439 | Journal eISSN: 2211-8179
Language: English
Submitted on: Jun 6, 2024
|
Accepted on: Jun 4, 2025
|
Published on: Jun 19, 2025
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

© 2025 Zi-Xuan Yang, Yu Kang, Xue-Ke Zhong, Qiao-Wei Chen, Yi She, Yun Guo, Xiao-Jing Chen, Hua Wang, Qing Zhang, published by Ubiquity Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.