Oct 1, 2021 This Week in Cardiology Podcast
This Week in Cardiology
Medscape Podcasts
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🗓️ 1 October 2021
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Coronary artery calcification and exercise, translating clinical trials, the question of metabolically healthy obesity, and Watchman complications are the topics John Mandrola, MD, discusses in this week's podcast. To read a partial transcript or to comment, visit: https://www.medscape.com/twic
I - CAC and Physical Activity
- Physical Activity Paradoxically Tied to Higher Coronary Calcium https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/959366
- Physical activity and the progression of coronary artery calcification http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/heartjnl-2021-319346
II - Translating Clinical Trials
- SYNTAX Score II 2020 Wobbles in Real-World Validation https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/958834
- Redevelopment and validation of the SYNTAX score II to individualise decision making between percutaneous and surgical revascularisation in patients with complex coronary artery disease: secondary analysis of the multicentre randomised controlled SYNTAXES trial with external cohort validation https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(20)32114-0
- External Validation of the SYNTAX Score II 2020 https://www.jacc.org/doi/full/10.1016/j.jacc.2021.07.027
III - Healthy and Obesity
- 'Metabolically Healthy Obesity' Has Heart Risks. Is it a Misnomer? https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/959994
- Metabolically healthy obesity and cardiovascular events: A nationwide cohort study https://doi.org/10.1111/dom.14492
- Relation of Obesity to New-Onset Atrial Fibrillation and Atrial Flutter in Adults https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29501206/
- Paediatric obesity appears to lower the risk of diabetes if selection bias is ignored https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29374028
IV - Watchman Complications
- FDA Investigating Potential Sex Differences in LAAO Adverse Outcomes https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/959806
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| 0:38.6 | Hi everyone, this is John Mandrola from the Heart.org Medscape Cardiology and this is this week in |
| 0:45.5 | Cardiology for October 1st, 2021. |
| 0:49.8 | This week, coronary calcium and exercise, translating clinical trials, the question of |
| 0:57.0 | metabolically healthy obesity, and more on left-ahedral appendage closure. |
| 1:03.3 | First to note on COVID, it is getting better, thank goodness. |
| 1:07.8 | But to not lose any more friends or have any more folks complain to my employer, I will move straight to |
| 1:15.4 | cardiology. Let's talk about cornerary calcium and exercise. South Korea investigators have published a provocative paper on the association between |
| 1:27.0 | coronary calcium cack and physical activity. |
| 1:31.0 | Now, since this involved a seeming paradox, it got a lot of attention. The study was a |
| 1:37.2 | convenient sample of about 25,000 participants without coronary artery disease |
| 1:42.4 | from two hospitals who happened to have had |
| 1:46.6 | two coronary artery calcium scans done. |
| 1:50.9 | The authors used three groups based on self-reporting of activity. |
| 1:55.0 | Group one, inactive, moderately active was group two, and the third group did health enhancing physical activity. |
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