A Study to Determine the Efficacy and Safety of Finerenone on Morbidity and Mortality Among Hospitalized Heart Failure Patients

Inclusion Criteria: * Provide written informed consent * Age ≥18 years or legal age of majority if \>18 years in the participant's country of residence * Current hospitalization or recently discharged (during or within 30 days of discharge) with the primary diagnosis of heart failure * Heart failure signs and symptoms at the time of hospital admission * Imaging evidence of mildly reduced or preserved left ventricular ejection fraction (EF) (40% or higher) * Elevated N-terminal pro B-type natriuretic peptide (NTproBNP) ≥500 pg/mL or B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) ≥125 pg/mL for patients without atrial fibrillation (AF); or elevated NTproBNP ≥1500 pg/mL or BNP ≥375 pg/mL for patients with AF Exclusion Criteria: * Current or planned long-term treatment with a mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist (MRA) * Documented prior history of severe hyperkalemia in the setting of MRA use * Estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) \<25 mL/min/1.73m² or potassium \>5.0 mmol/L at screening * Acute myocardial infarction due to plaque rupture, coronary revascularization, valve replacement/repair, or implantation of a cardiac resynchronization therapy device within 30 days * Hemodynamically significant (severe) uncorrected primary cardiac valvular disease * Cardiomyopathy due to known acute inflammatory heart, infiltrative diseases, accumulation diseases, muscular dystrophies, cardiomyopathy with reversible causes, known hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy, complex congenital heart d…