Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: Clinical characteristics of 4133 patients enrolled in the I‐PRESERVE trial

BACKGROUND: We describe the baseline characteristics of subjects randomised in the largest placebo-controlled, morbidity-mortality trial to date in patients with heart failure and preserved ejection fraction - the irbesartan in heart failure with preserved systolic function trial (I-PRESERVE). METHODS AND RESULTS: 4133 patients with a mean age of 72 years (a third were 75 years or older) were randomised and 60% were women. The mean (SD) LVEF …