Jun 25, 2021 This Week in Cardiology Podcast
This Week in Cardiology
Medscape Podcasts
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🗓️ 25 June 2021
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Myocarditis and the COVID vaccine, lipid lowering guidelines, financial toxicity, and deprescribing statins are the topics covered by John Mandrola, MD, in this week's podcast. https://www.medscape.com/twic
1 – COVID
Varied COVID Vaccination Rates May Lead to 'Two Americas' https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/953658
Nearly All COVID Deaths in US Are Now Among Unvaccinated https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/953703
2 - COVID Vaccine Myocarditis
FDA to Add Myocarditis Warning to mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/953647
3 – Lipid Guidelines
Clinicians Slow to Implement Lipid-Lowering Guidelines: GOULD Registry https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/953688
- Use of Lipid-Lowering Therapies Over 2 Years in GOULD, a Registry of Patients With Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease in the US https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/fullarticle/2780713
4 - Financial Toxicity
Financial Burden Higher With CVD Than Cancer https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/953687
- Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease, Cancer, and Financial Toxicity Among Adults in the United States https://www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.jaccao.2021.02.006
5 - Deprescribing Statins
Stopping Statins Linked to Death, CV Events in Elderly https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/953545
- Cardiovascular Outcomes and Mortality Associated With Discontinuing Statins in Older Patients Receiving Polypharmacy https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2780952
- Effect of rosuvastatin in patients with chronic heart failure (the GISSI-HF trial): a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(08)61240-4/fulltext
- Rosuvastatin in Older Patients with Systolic Heart Failure https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa0706201
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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 Bedscape Cardiology and this is this week in |
| 0:45.4 | Cardiology for June 25th, 2021. |
| 0:49.4 | This week, more about vaccine-induced myocarditis, lipid lowering therapy, financial toxicity, |
| 0:56.5 | and statins in older patients. |
| 1:00.0 | First up, COVID, cases in the US remain super low. |
| 1:04.8 | People here in Louisville have almost forgot about COVID. |
| 1:08.2 | But I have some friends at Moonlight in rural areas of Kentucky |
| 1:11.6 | and they say there are still some COVID |
| 1:13.8 | hospitalizations in unvaccinated people. I had lunch with an infectious |
| 1:18.5 | disease colleague this week and he said neither he nor his partner have seen even one inpatient with COVID who was vaccinated. |
| 1:27.2 | I read that even New York City is doing great with COVID cases and I think it's just a testament to the efficacy of the vaccines. |
| 1:35.0 | Now one slight concern is that I noticed that in the EU and the UK there seems to be a rise in cases. |
| 1:42.0 | But I reached out to a colleague in France and he sent me graphs on hospital and ICU admissions there, |
| 1:48.0 | and there's no spike at least yet. |
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