Table 5 Cochrane database search strategy

1

exp heart failure

1412

2

exp Cardiomyopathy

133

3

exp Ventricular dysfunction

225

4

((heart or cardiac or myocardial) near/2 (failure or decompensation)):ti,ab,kw

14941

5

((congest* or chronic) near/2 "heart failure"):ti,ab,kw

6158

6

(ventric* near (fail* or insufficien* or dysfunction* or function*)):ti,ab,kw

9067

7

((diastol* or systol*) near/2 (failure or dysfunction* or function*)):ti, ab, kw

2866

8

((Reduced or preserved) near/2 (ejection or fraction or “EF”)):ti, ab, kw

532

9

(“HFpEF” or “HFrEF”):ti, ab, kw

161

10

#1 or #2 or #3 or #4 or #5 or #6 or #7 or #8 or #9

21983

11

exp Aldosterone Antagonist*

44

12

(mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist*):ti,ab,kw

486

13

(eplerenone or inspra or spironolactone or aldactone or canren* or fineren*):ti,ab,kw

1309

14

Aldosterone near/2 antagon*

393

15

#11 or #12 or #13

1661

16

#10 and #15

692