July 30, 2021 This Week in Cardiology Podcast
This Week in Cardiology
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🗓️ 30 July 2021
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Two studies on alcohol and AF incidence and an important paper on stable CAD are the topics John Mandrola discusses in this week's podcast. https://www.medscape.com/twic
1 - COVID-19
New Vaccinations Increasing in COVID Hot Spots https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/955680
2 - Alcohol
- Moderate Drinking Protective After MI, Stroke in 'Flawed' Study https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/955474
- Risk Thresholds for Total and Beverage-Specific Alcohol Consumption and Incident Atrial Fibrillation https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacep.2021.05.013
- Can a Drink a Day Keep the Electrophysiologist Away? https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacep.2021.06.010
- Association of alcohol consumption with morbidity and mortality in patients with cardiovascular disease: original data and meta-analysis of 48,423 men and women https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12916-021-02040-2
3 - Coronary Artery Disease
- CLARIFY Confirms Meds, Watchful Waiting in Angina, Stable CAD https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/955313
- International Observational Analysis of Evolution and Outcomes of Chronic Stable Angina: The Multinational Observational CLARIFY Study https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/suppl/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.121.054567
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to this week in cardiology from the heart.org on medscape. |
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| 0:38.6 | Hi everyone, this is John Mandrola from the Heart.org Medscape Cardiology and this is |
| 0:45.8 | this week in Cardiology for July 30th 2021. This week only a brief mention |
| 0:52.3 | about COVID two studies on alcohol, and a very important study |
| 0:57.6 | on stable coronary disease. |
| 1:00.3 | First up COVID, I just can't go there friends. I'm so tired and frustrated and |
| 1:07.8 | utterly confused about the new mask mandates and the move to do more testing. I mean do people not remember the basic |
| 1:16.0 | two-by-two tables and the problems with testing for low prevalence conditions |
| 1:19.9 | hint false positives? I've been saying the same thing on this podcast every week. You all |
| 1:26.7 | know the story. It's now a pandemic only for the unvaccinated, especially those with |
| 1:32.1 | risk factors. |
| 1:33.8 | I don't envy the policy makers, and I'm simply moving on to cardiology topics. |
| 1:41.3 | There were two contrasting papers on alcohol published this week. |
| 1:46.7 | At the HRS meeting in Boston, which is part virtual and part in person, the famous group |
| 1:52.2 | from Adelaide, Australia presented and published an interesting study |
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