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SHIFTING the burden of heart failure Ivabradine, the pure heart rate-lowering drug,
shown to reduce morbidity and mortality in heart failure.
The results of the SHIfT study, announced this week at the
European Society of Cardiology (ESC) 2010 congress in Stockholm,
are likely to change the clinical treatment of chronic heart
failure as they provide the first positive results for many
years in this difficult field of treatment. The great interest
in the outcome of this study was evident from the large number
of delegates attending this hot-line session on the first day of
the congress.