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HFpEF vs. HFrEF: How To Improve Heart Failure Drug Development

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Late-stage clinical trial failures are largely to blame for the lack of effective treatment options for patients with HFpEF, and poor five-year survival rates make this an area of great unmet need. Since it’s not always possible to measure the direct effect of a gene, biomarkers are often used to measure its effect on a given outcome. “If