Jul 7 2023 This Week in Cardiology
This Week in Cardiology
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🗓️ 7 July 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
European HTN Guidelines, vitamin D, bempedoic acid, and leadless pacing, with some critical appraisal techniques thrown in, are the topics John Mandrola, MD, tackles in this week's podcast.
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I. European Hypertension Guidelines
New ESH Hypertension Guidelines Aim for Simplified Message
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/993913
- 2023 ESH Guidelines for the management of arterial hypertension The Task Force for the management of arterial hypertension of the European Society of Hypertension Endorsed by the European Renal Association (ERA) and the International Society of Hypertension (ISH)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37345492/
II. Vitamin D
CV Benefit From Vitamin-D Caps Hinted in Huge D-Health Trial
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/993996
- Vitamin D supplementation and major cardiovascular events: D-Health randomised controlled trial
https://www.bmj.com/content/381/bmj-2023-075230
- Vitamin D Supplementation and Cardiovascular Disease Risks in More Than 83 000 Individuals in 21 Randomized Clinical Trials
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/fullarticle/2735646
III. Bempedoic Acid
'Striking' Benefit of Lipid Lowering in Primary Prevention
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/993666
- Bempedoic Acid for Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Events in Statin-Intolerant Patients
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2806646
- Bempedoic Acid for High-Risk Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2806647
- Bempedoic Acid and Cardiovascular Outcomes in Statin-Intolerant Patients
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2215024
IV. Leadless Pacing
FDA Approves First Leadless Dual-Chamber Pacing System
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/994033
- A Dual-Chamber Leadless Pacemaker
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2300080
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to this week in cardiology from the heart |
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| 0:44.0 | Hi everyone this is John Mandrola from the Heart.org Medscape |
| 0:48.0 | and this is this week in credibility for July 7th 2023 this week European hypertension guidelines, Vitamin D, Bempedoic Acid, bleedless pacing, |
| 1:01.1 | bempedoic acid, bleedless pacing and some critical appraisal techniques thrown in. |
| 1:07.0 | Also, a mention of the Icarus analogy. |
| 1:11.0 | First topic is new hypertension guidelines. The European Society of Hypertension |
| 1:18.3 | released an expanded guidelines for the management of hypertension, journalist Sue Hughes has |
| 1:24.0 | outstanding coverage as always. Sue's writing is just superb. Now you all know how I |
| 1:30.5 | feel about guidelines that is I think there are too many guidelines and these recommendations |
| 1:35.8 | are made too simplified in those crazy colored boxes. Well, the goal of the European experts was to simplify the message. |
| 1:46.0 | I have to say some of this is good, some of this not so much. |
| 1:51.0 | But before I tell you about any of the messages from this guideline, so much |
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