May 12 2023 This Week in Cardiology
This Week in Cardiology
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🗓️ 12 May 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Two new papers on left atrial appendage occlusion, the promise of DNA, statins in the elderly, and SGLT2 inhibitors are the topics John Mandrola, MD, discusses in this week's podcast.
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I. Listener Feedback
- When to Start a Statin Is a Preference-Sensitive Decision
https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.117.029808
II. Left Atrial Appendage Closure
LAA Closure Outcomes Improve With CCTA: Swiss-Apero Subanalysis
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/991623
- Impact of Preprocedural Computed Tomography on Left Atrial Appendage Closure Success: A Swiss-Apero Trial Subanalysis https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcin.2023.02.027
- Outcomes of percutaneous left atrial appendage occlusion device implantation in atrial fibrillation patients based on underlying stroke risk https://doi.org/10.1093/europace/euad049
III. Polygenic Risk Scores
- Predictive Accuracy of a Polygenic Risk Score Compared With a Clinical Risk Score for Incident Coronary Heart Disease https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2761086
- Cardiovascular Disease Risk Assessment Using Traditional Risk Factors and Polygenic Risk Scores in the Million Veteran Program https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/article-abstract/2804439
- Validity of polygenic risk scores: are we measuring what we think we are? https://doi.org/10.1093/hmg/ddz205
IV. Statins in Older Patients
High Cholesterol in Seniors: Use Statins for Primary Prevention?
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/991801
V. SGLT2 Inhibitors
FDA Expands Use of Dapagliflozin to Broader Range of HF
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/991736
- Dapagliflozin in Heart Failure with Mildly Reduced or Preserved Ejection Fraction
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2206286
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| 0:44.0 | Hi everyone this is John Mandrola from the heart dot org medscape cardiology and this is |
| 0:50.3 | this week in cardiology for May 12th 2023 This week, two more papers on left-a-lapendage occlusion. The promise of DNA for prediction stands in the elderly and SGLT2 inhibitors again. |
| 1:09.5 | First, a quick thanks to Dr. Approvalve-IOS and the crew at Lehigh Valley Health for inviting me |
| 1:15.8 | to give the keynote last Saturday. |
| 1:18.4 | As always, I feel extremely grateful for these invites. |
| 1:22.2 | First, it's an honor to be asked to speak. Second, it is great to meet the young people training to do this job of cardiology, but this was a particularly fun meeting in Pennsylvania as the sessions were notable because they included such robust critical appraisal. |
| 1:38.6 | I mean sub-specialists were actually critically appraising the literature in their own field. |
| 1:45.0 | Havascular surgeon was questioning the value of operating on asymptomatic |
| 1:50.5 | karate disease. |
| 1:52.0 | An interventional cardiologist went through the studies at |
| 1:54.6 | PCI and Staple CAD and wait for it. That speaker lauded the strength of modern medical |
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