( With sky high health-care costs it has ...)A cost effective heart failure drug hits the market!,Health

With sky high health-care costs it has become a burden both on the body as well as the purse if sickness strikes. But as a respite comes a new cardio drug that negates both the above said effects of ill health. //

The drug is in the African-American heart failure patients where it has greatly improved the condition.

Derek Angus, M.D., M.P.H., professor of critical care medicine at the University Of Pittsburgh School Of Medicine led the study where in he examined data from the African-American Heart Failure Trial (A-HeFT) study in order to determine the trial participants' ongoing health care costs. The comparison was made in patients who took a medication with two active drug ingredients, isosorbide dinitrate and hydralazine (ISDN/HYD), to those in patients receiving a placebo regimen. The trial demonstrated the effectiveness of ISDN/HYD for treating heart failure in African-American patients.

The result demonstrated that total health care costs for the AHeFT participants who were treated with ISDN/HYD were 22 percent lower. Health care costs specifically related to heart failure were almost 34 percent lower on average, $5,997 versus $9,144. When the cost of the drug was factored in, there was still an average savings of 6 percent, or $533, on heart failure-related costs for ISDN/HYD patients compared to those who didn't receive the drug, and a 9 percent, or $1,730, average savings on total health care costs.

As stated by Dr. Angus, "This medication clearly decreased healthcare costs for AHeFT participants during the course of the clinical trial, even when the cost of the drug itself was taken into account. Based on the savings we've seen for one year and our modelling that projects future health care cost expenditures, it's likely that the cost-effectiveness of this drug will bear out in the long term as well."

Dr. Angus and his colleagues developed a model to predict costs over the course of the pa
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