CLINICAL STATEMENTS AND GUIDELINES WRITING GROUP MEMBERS* Clyde W. Yancy, MD, MSc, MACC, FAHA, FHFSA, Chair Mariell Jessup, MD, FACC, FAHA, Vice Chair Biykem Bozkurt, MD, PhD, FACC, FAHA* Javed Butler, MD, MBA, MPH, FACC, FAHA* Donald E. Casey Jr, MD, MPH, MBA, FACC Monica M. Colvin, MD, FAHA Mark H. Drazner, MD, MSc, FACC, FAHA, FHFSA Gerasimos S. Filippatos, MD* Gregg C. Fonarow, MD, FACC, FAHA, FHFSA* Michael M. Givertz, MD, FACC, FHFSA* Steven M. Hollenberg, MD, FACC# JoAnn Lindenfeld, MD, FACC, FAHA, FHFSA* Frederick A. Masoudi, MD, MSPH, FACC** Patrick E. McBride, MD, MPH, FACC Pamela N. Peterson, MD, FACC, FAHA Lynne Warner Stevenson, MD, FACC* Cheryl Westlake, PhD, RN, ACNS-BC, FAHA, FHFSA Developed in Collaboration with the American Academy of Family Physicians, American College of Chest Physicians, and International Society for Heart and Lung Trans- plantation ACC/AHA Task Force Members, see page e150 2017 ACC/AHA/HFSA Focused Update of the 2013 ACCF/AHA Guideline for the Management of Heart Failure A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Clinical Practice Guidelines and the Heart Failure Society of America 2017 by the American College of Cardiology Foundation, the American Heart Association, Inc., and the Heart Failure Society of America ACC/AHA/HFSA FOCUSED UPDATE Key Words: AHA Scientific Statements angioedema angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors angiotensin receptor blockers angiotensin receptor- neprilysin inhibitor beta blockers ferric carboxymaltose focused update heart failure hypertension iron deficiency ivabradine natriuretic peptides natriuretic peptide biomarker sleep apnea *Writing group members are required to recuse themselves from voting on sections to which their specific relationships with industry may apply; see Appendix 1 for detailed information. ACC/AHA Task Force on Clinical Practice Guidelines Liaison. ACC/AHA Representative. ACP Representative. ISHLT Representative. HFSA Representative. #CHEST Representative. **ACC/AHA Task Force on Performance Measures Representative. AAFP Representative. 