Jul 23, 2021 This Week in Cardiology Podcast
This Week in Cardiology
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🗓️ 23 July 2021
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
COVID-19 messaging, coffee, CTA and statins, and Watchman problems are the topics discussed by John Mandrola, MD, in this week's podcast. https://www.medscape.com/twic
1- COVID-19:
- COVID-19 Cases in US Triple Over 2 Weeks Amid Misinformation https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/955269
- Effectiveness of Covid-19 Vaccines against the B.1.617.2 (Delta) Variant https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2108891
- What Really Happened With that Weird Yankees COVID Outbreak https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/05/what-really-happened-with-that-weird-yankees-covid-outbreak.html
2- Coffee:
- Coffee Not Linked to Increased Arrhythmia Risk in New Study https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/954992
- Coffee Consumption and Incident Tachyarrhythmias https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2782015
- Another Cup of Coffee Without an Arrhythmia, Please https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2782021
3- CTA and Statins:
- CTA May Guide Primary Prevention Statins in Nonobstructive CAD https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/955030
- Reduction of Myocardial Infarction and All-Cause Mortality Associated to Statins in Patients Without Obstructive CAD https://www.jacc.org/doi/full/10.1016/j.jcmg.2021.05.022
4- Left Atrial Appendage Closure:
- Five Risk Factors May Predict Thrombus on LAA Occlusion Implants https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/955131
- Predictors of Device-Related Thrombus Following Percutaneous Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion https://www.jacc.org/doi/full/10.1016/j.jacc.2021.04.098
- Device-Related Thrombus After Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion https://www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.jacc.2021.05.028
Features:
- Does Coffee Make Your Heart Flutter? https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/954996
- Enough With the Coffee Research and Other Distractions https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/883709
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to this week in Cardiology from the Heart.org on Medscape. |
| 0:07.0 | Hi everyone, this is John Mandrola from the Heart.org medscape |
| 0:14.2 | cardiology and this is this week in cardiology for July 23rd 2021 this week COVID |
| 0:22.1 | COVID messaging, coffee, statens, and watchman problems. |
| 0:28.6 | First up COVID. |
| 0:31.7 | Again, cases are rising in the US and the European Union. Areas of low |
| 0:36.7 | vaccination are clearly doing worse. But the New England Journal of Medicine |
| 0:42.0 | published a big study from British authors this week showing that the Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccine have close to similar efficacy against the delta variant compared with the alpha variant. It remains to be |
| 0:56.4 | seen whether this uptick in cases will cause the same percentage of |
| 1:00.6 | hospitalizations that previous rises in cases caused. |
| 1:05.8 | I hope that the millions of vaccinated folks will provide a ceiling on hospitalizations. |
| 1:12.4 | The obvious challenge now is how to increase the percent of vulnerable |
| 1:16.8 | adults who get vaccinated. And this is why trust in public health officials and their |
| 1:22.4 | messaging was so critical. |
| 1:26.1 | Harvard epidemiologist Dr. Michael Mina had some very nice comments in the New York magazine. I'll link to that article and it's an article |
| 1:34.3 | about the New York Yankees positive test story. Dr. Meena really bemoaned the |
| 1:39.9 | black and white binary messaging. Here he was talking about the limitations of the super sensitive |
| 1:46.3 | PCR test versus antigen test. He called binary messaging immensely destructive. |
| 1:54.5 | One of Mina's core beliefs in public health |
| 1:58.1 | is that you absolutely need to bring the public along. You need to keep them informed. If you don't have the public buy-in for everything |
| 2:07.8 | you're doing, you will never defeat a pandemic." He went on throughout this pandemic we've generally considered the |
| 2:16.2 | public to be the problem. But this is public health. The public isn't the |
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