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I just googled Farxiga and found this, which means it wouldn't apply to someone with preserved ejection (me):The Food and Drug Administration has accepted a supplemental New Drug Application and granted Priority Review for dapagliflozin (Farxiga) for the reduction of risk of cardiovascular death or worsening of heart failure in adult patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF).
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It is for patients with preserved EF. But it also is for people with reduced. My cardiologist from the Cleveland Clinic just put me on it and I have HFpEF. I have read about it and it is applicable for both conditions
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Here's what I found...."FDA grants Fast Track designation for Farxiga in heart failure
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16 September 2019
AstraZeneca today announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Fast Track designation for the development of Farxiga (dapagliflozin) to reduce the risk of cardiovascular (CV) death, or the worsening of heart failure, in adults with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) or preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF)...."
It helps with both types of heart failure, according to Margaret Redfield, MD, of the Mayo Clinic and my local Cardiologist, Garrick Stewart, MD, of the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. If your A1C is even slightly elevated you can get on it.