American Heart Association Launches Primary Care Perspectives Platform to Improve Early Heart Failure Risk Detection
核心洞察
Nearly 7 million Americans live with heart failure (搜索), with cardiovascular, kidney, and metabolic conditions often overlapping to increase progression risk years before symptoms appear.
The American Heart Association launched Primary Care Perspectives, a new platform providing practical education, tools, and resources for earlier CKM risk identification in primary care.
The first three-year initiative, Heart Failure (搜索) in Primary Care, focuses on HFpEF and HFmrEF, with the inaugural webinar scheduled for June 29, 2026.
The American Heart Association (AHA) has launched Primary Care Perspectives, a new platform designed to equip primary care professionals with practical education, tools, and resources for earlier identification and management of cardiovascular, kidney, and metabolic (CKM) risk. The initiative comes as nearly 7 million people in the United States are living with heart failure (搜索), a number expected to grow in the years ahead.
"Primary care professionals are managing increasing complexity across cardiovascular, kidney and metabolic conditions, often while navigating limited time and fragmented guidance," said Eduardo Sanchez, MD, MPH, FAHA, chief medical officer for prevention at the American Heart Association. "Primary Care Perspectives was created to support clinicians with practical education and tools that can help them recognize risk earlier, make informed decisions with confidence and support patients before heart failure (搜索) becomes more difficult to prevent or manage."
The Growing Burden of CKM Overlap
Cardiovascular disease (搜索), chronic kidney disease (搜索), Type 2 diabetes (搜索), obesity (搜索), and insulin resistance frequently co-occur, increasing the risk of progression to heart failure (搜索) — sometimes for years before symptoms manifest. Primary care professionals serve as the first and most frequent point of contact for patients at risk, yet many face real-world barriers that contribute to delays in diagnosis, treatment, and referral. These barriers include rapidly evolving guidance across CKM conditions, limited time during patient visits, underused screening and risk-assessment tools, and challenges coordinating care across settings.
Even with established guidance, many eligible patients hospitalized with heart failure (搜索) do not receive guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT) at discharge. The AHA emphasizes that earlier identification and management in primary care may help improve long-term outcomes and reduce preventable disease progression.
Heart Failure (搜索) in Primary Care: A Three-Year Initiative
The platform's first initiative, Heart Failure (搜索) in Primary Care, focuses on helping clinicians identify and manage cardiovascular, kidney, and metabolic risk factors connected to heart failure, with particular attention to HF with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) and HF with mildly reduced ejection fraction (HFmrEF). By using heart failure as a practical entry point, the initiative helps clinicians connect everyday care decisions with earlier risk identification and management.
The three-year initiative is intended for primary care professionals caring for patients across the cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic continuum, especially those with early risk factors and those with or at risk for heart failure (搜索).
Offerings are expected to include a core curriculum focused on earlier CKM risk identification and management, practical screening and risk-assessment tools, professional education and certification opportunities, resources to support shared decision-making with patients, and peer-to-peer learning opportunities shaped for real-world primary care settings.
The initiative will launch with its first educational webinar, "Early Diagnosis and Initial Management of Heart Failure (搜索) in Primary Care," on June 29, 2026, designed to support primary care teams in recognizing and managing heart failure earlier. This case-based webinar represents the initiative's first professional education opportunity.
Industry Support
Bayer (搜索) is supporting the American Heart Association's Primary Care Perspectives initiative. "Bayer is proud to support the American Heart Association's Primary Care Perspectives initiative and its focus on providing practical education and resources that can help clinicians navigate the growing complexity of cardiovascular, kidney and metabolic conditions," said Robert Perkins, M.D., M.P.H., FACP, vice president of U.S. medical affairs cardiovascular and renal at Bayer. "Heart failure (搜索) continues to place a significant burden on patients, caregivers and health systems, and this initiative will help primary care professionals identify risk earlier and support timely care."