Corrections needed to 2016 ESC and AHA guidelines on heart failure

In 2016, the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) issued updated heart failure guidelines. These guidelines serve as authoritative advice for physicians, thereby improving cardiovascular care. Despite careful background work by the authors and reviewers who created these guidelines, some less well supported suggestions were included. We wish to address some specific concerns relating to incretin-based glucose-lowering therapies.