Abstract
Purpose of Review
The heterogeneity of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) is responsible for the limited success of broad management strategies. The role of biomarkers has been evolving helping to provide insight into the diversity of pathophysiology, prognosis, and potential targets for treatments. We will review the role of traditional and novel biomarkers in diagnosing, prognosticating, and evolving the management of patients with HFpEF. As circulating biomarker discovery rapidly evolves, we will explore technology for new biomarker discovery with examples of successful implementation.
Recent Findings
Besides cardiac-specific biomarkers (natriuretic peptides and troponin), other novel nonspecific biomarkers increasingly identify the diversity of pathophysiological mechanisms of HFpEF including inflammation, fibrosis, and renal dysfunction. Newer approaches have provided increasing granularity providing opportunities to integrate large amounts of information from proteomics and genomics as biomarkers of interest in HFpEF.
Summary
HFpEF has been marked with failure of many medications to show benefit, whether measuring single targeted biomarkers or broader targeted discovery proteomics or genomic circulating biomarkers are providing increasing opportunities to better understand and manage HFpEF patients.
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Dr. Moemen Eltelbany reports no sources of funding.
Dr. Palak Shah is supported by an NIH K23 Career Development Award 1K23HL143179.
Dr. Christopher deFilippi receives research funding from National Institute of Health R01HL154768, R01HL151293, R21AG072095, and 1UL1TR003015.
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Eltelbany, M., Shah, P. & deFilippi, C. Biomarkers in HFpEF for Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Biological Phenotyping. Curr Heart Fail Rep 19, 412–424 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11897-022-00578-7
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