Aug 04 2023 This Week in Cardiology
This Week in Cardiology
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🗓️ 4 August 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Listener feedback re observational studies, surgeons' dissent from recent guidelines, aspirin for primary prevention, and fish oil are the topics discussed by John Mandrola.MD in this week's podcast.
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I. Heart Surgeons Dissent
Surgical Groups Push Back Against New Revascularization Guidelines
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/966153
New Revascularization Guidelines: Key Points and Navigating Controversies
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/972014
- AHA Guidelines - https://doi.org/10.1161/CIR.0000000000001168
- AATS statement 2023 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtcvs.2023.03.001
- Yusef and colleagues 1994 Meta-analysis - https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(94)91963-1
- 10-year SYNTAXES https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(19)31997-X
- Surgeons' argument 2021 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2021.12.003
- FAME 3 https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2112299
- Gaudino Meta-analysis of Medical Therapy vs CABG https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtcvs.2022.06.003
- NOBLE https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(19)32972-1
- EXCEL 5 years https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa1909406
II. ASA for Primary Prevention
Daily Aspirin Challenged in Primary Stroke Prevention: ASPREE
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/994963
- ASPREE – All-cause mortality
- ASPREE (MACE and Bleeding) https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1805819
- ASPREE (disability) https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1800722
- JAMA Network Open Subanalysis https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2807630
III. Fish Oil
- OMEMI Substudy https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clnu.2023.07.002
- Gencer and colleagues Meta-analysis - https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.121.055654
- OMEMI Main Trial https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.120.052209
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| 0:44.0 | Hi everyone this is John Mandrola from the Heart.org medscape cardiology and this is |
| 0:50.1 | this week in cardiology for August 4th 2023 this week This week some solicitor feedback regarding observational studies, cardiovascular |
| 0:59.1 | surgeons, descent from recent guidelines, aspirin for primary prevention, and fish oil is back into news again. |
| 1:08.8 | But first I want to say thank you to Dr. Sheldon Litwin for the kind invitation to speak at the Charleston Hephpef conference |
| 1:16.7 | at the Medical University of South Carolina. |
| 1:19.3 | This is a great city and now I have an evidence heavy lecture on Hefbeth. It was a great conference and |
| 1:25.6 | congratulations. Now let's do some really nice listener feedback. I received |
| 1:30.9 | two very interesting emails last week, one from a very prominent full |
| 1:35.8 | professor in academia who concurred with my strong concerns regarding jumping to causal |
| 1:42.2 | inference from non-random observational studies. |
| 1:45.6 | But he also warned me not to under-emphasize the role of these sorts of studies in creating |
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