Tablet therapy for Heart Failure

Tablet therapy for heart failure is really the cornerstone of improving your heart function and your symptoms. It includes diuretics, which help relieve fluid overload from the body. So if you have swollen legs, or if you're particularly breathless, it may be because have fluid in the lungs. So taking diuretics is really important to get rid of that extra fluid. Those tablets themselves don't necessarily make you live longer. Of course they improve your symptoms but don't necessarily help you live longer. So there are other key tablets that have been shown in multiple trials to help you live longer and those are beta blockers, ACE inhibitors, or instead of ACE inhibitors, angiotensin receptor neprilysin inhibitors or ARNIs. Then thirdly, mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists. And fourthly, a class of drugs called SGLT2 inhibitors. to inhibitors. So those are the really key important tablets that we know help you live longer with heart failure. Of course, it will be necessary for the majority of people with symptoms from heart failure to take diuretics at the same time.