Jan 10 2025 This Week in Cardiology

This Week in Cardiology

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🗓️ 10 January 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Alcohol and cancer, GLP-1 trial representativeness, diagnosing CAD, changing stroke rates in patients with AF, blanking periods after AF ablation are the topics John Mandrola, MD, covers this week.

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I. Surgeon General Causes Hoopla Regarding ETOH Warning

Dry January: Should Doctors Make It Year-Round?

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/dry-january-should-doctors-make-it-year-round-2025a100009t

Surgeon General Warning https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2025/01/03/us-surgeon-general-issues-new-advisory-link-alcohol-cancer-risk.html
GBD 2016 Collaboration Lancet https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(18)31310-2
RCT Voskobonik and colleagues https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1817591
Marcus and colleagues; UCSF https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33516710/
Review of ETOH AF https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2016.08.074

II. GLP-1 Agonists for Obesity –Trial vs Real World

Generalizability of Trial Results https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2826335
HRS Document ICD http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.hrthm.2014.03.041

III. Stress Testing and CAD Severity

Reynolds and colleagues. Observational ISCHEMIA Sub-analysis https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCINTERVENTIONS.123.013743
Foy Meta-analysis https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2655243
ISCHEMIA https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1915922

IV. Changing Stroke Rates with AF

Teppo and colleagues. Finnish Study https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacep.2024.10.029
Quinn and colleagues. https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/circulationaha.116.024057

V. Patients’ Lives Don’t Pause for Blanking Periods

Ruzieh and colleagues. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ahjo.2024.100497

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0:45.4	This is John Mandrola from the heart.org medscape cardiology, and this is this week in
0:50.8	cardiology for January 10th, 2025. This week, alcohol and health,
0:58.5	GLP1 trial representativeness, diagnosing coronary disease, changing stroke rates in patients
1:05.4	with AFIB and blanking periods after AF ablation. While we're on holiday, the U.S. Surgeon General made news by warning about the risks of alcohol consumption.
1:17.3	The specifics of the note was a direct, quote, direct link between alcohol and increased cancer risk.
1:24.3	Here is a quote, quote, alcohol consumption is the third leading preventable cause of cancer in the United States
1:30.1	after tobacco and obesity.
1:33.2	Increasing risk for at least seven types of cancer, while scientific evidence for this connection
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