ZHAO Xingyuan,CHEN Xiangyan,HU Nan,et al.Efficacy and safety of vericiguat added to GDMT regimen in the treatment of heart failure with reduced ejection fraction[J].ZHONGGUO YAOFANG,2025,36(17):2165-2169.
ZHAO Xingyuan,CHEN Xiangyan,HU Nan,et al.Efficacy and safety of vericiguat added to GDMT regimen in the treatment of heart failure with reduced ejection fraction[J].ZHONGGUO YAOFANG,2025,36(17):2165-2169. DOI: 10.6039/j.issn.1001-0408.2025.17.14.
Efficacy and safety of vericiguat added to GDMT regimen in the treatment of heart failure with reduced ejection fraction
To evaluate the efficacy and safety of guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT) combined with vericiguat in treating heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF).
METHODS
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A retrospective study was conducted on 346 patients with HFrEF who received standardized diagnosis and treatment at the First People’s Hospital of Changzhou from January 2023 to May 2024. They were divided into standard treatment group (
n
=215) and vericiguat group (
n
=131). Patients in the standard treatment group received GDMT, while patients in the vericiguat group received GDMT combined with vericiguat. Propensity score matching (PSM) was used to balance confounding factors between two groups, and the effectiveness (including outcome and prognostic indicators) and safety (occurrence of adverse events) of both groups were evaluated. Kaplan-Meier survival curves for primary and secondary outcome events were drawn, and the influential factors of primary outcome events were screened through univariate and multivariate Cox regression analysis.
RESULTS
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After PSM, there were 100 patients in the standard treatment gro
up and 100 patients in the vericiguat group, and there was no statistically significant differences in baseline data between two groups (
P
>0.05). During a 1-year follow-up, there were statistically significant differences in the cumulative incidence of major outcome events between the standard treatment group and the vericiguat group, cumulative incidence of hospitalization events due to heart failure, changes in N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide levels before and after treatment between the standard treatment group and the vericiguat group (
P
<0.05). There was no statistically significant difference in the incidence of adverse events between the two groups (
P
>0.05). Multivariate Cox regression analysis results showed that left ventricular ejection fraction ≤35% was a risk factor for the occurrence of major outcome events within 1 year [hazard ratio (HR)=2.090, 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.175-3.718,
P
=0.012
]
, while the use of vericiguat was a protective factor for the occurrence of major outcome events within 1 year (HR=0.505, 95%CI: 0.284-0.899,
P
=0.020).
CONCLUSIONS
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Compared with GDMT, GDMT combined with vericiguat can improve the clinical symptoms and prognosis of HFrEF patients, and has good safety.
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