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The invention provides methods for reducing the total number of days a patient with heart failure spends in the hospital for heart failure for a single hospital stay (i.e., reducing the duration of a single hospital stay for a patient with heart failure); reducing the total number of days a patient spends in the hospital for heart failure for multiple hospital stays (i.e., two or more hospital stays); reducing the number of hospital admissions for heart failure; and reducing mortality and reducing hospitalizations for heart failure (e.g., the total number of days in the hospital and/or the number of hospital visits); by administering to a patient a therapeutically effective amount of (i) a hydralazine compound or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, (ii) isosorbide dinitrate and/or isosorbide mononitrate, and (iii) optionally at least one angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors, β-adrenergic antagonists, angiotensin II antagonists, aldosterone antagonists, cardiac glucosides (digitalis), or diuretic compounds.

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