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Increasing low potassium levels improves clinical outcomes in patients with cardiovascular disease (CVD) and a high risk for ventricular arrhythmias, as shown in the POTCAST trial presented at ESC 2025.

Adding the cardiac glycoside digitoxin to guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT) improves clinical outcomes in patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF), as shown in the DIGIT-HF trial, which took over 10 years to complete due to funding constraints.

Smoking, obesity, treatment duration, and pre-existing cardiac diseases may contribute to the development of cardiotoxicity among patients with cancer who are undergoing 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) chemotherapy, suggests a recent study.

Treatment with semaglutide and dulaglutide results in a significantly lower risk of adverse cognitive decline in patients with heart failure (HF), as shown by the results of a retrospective cohort study using real-world data.