You're listening to this week in cardiology from the heart.org on medscape.

You can now access the latest in medical news on your Amazon Alexa enabled device.

Join me, Perry Wilson, every weekday morning for Medscape Medical Minute,

where I highlight the top medical stories of the day.

To add Medscape Medical Minute to your flash briefing, search for Medscape Medical

Minute on Amazon and click enable. Or open the Amazon Alexa app, go to Skills, search for Medscape

Medical Minute and click enable. Then say,

Alexa, what's the news or Alexa, what's my flash briefing? I hope you'll join us.

Hi everyone, this is John Mandrola from the Heart.org Medscape Cardiology and this is this week in

Cardiology for February 28, 2020.

This week, tension in social media, changes in CMS,

Bampidolic acid and carotid interventions.

First up, the K-index sounds scientific, doesn't it?

Noted Meta-resear, Dr. Shazab Khan from Stroger in Cook County, Chicago,

whom I have co-authored with in the past, along with a number of other co-authors, have published a provocative paper in Jack Case Reports on the Kardashian Index.

That's right. The

the Kardashian index or K index is a measure first proposed by scientist

Neil Hall back in the journal Genome Biology. This was a measure of the

discrepancy between a scientist's social media profile

and publication record based on the direct comparison of the number of citations and

Twitter followers.

Hall's concern back in 2014 was that there is a danger that social media as a form of

...