Jul 12 2024 This Week in Cardiology

Venous closure devices, GLP1-s linked to blindness and cancer, resisting the urge to do an ECG, and transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (TEER) for secondary mitral regurgitation are the topics discussed this week.

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• Venous vascular closure system vs. figure-of-eight suture following atrial fibrillation ablation: the STYLE-AF Study https://doi.org/10.1093/europace/euae105

II GLP1-s and Blindness

• Risk of Nonarteritic Anterior Ischemic Optic Neuropathy in Patients Prescribed Semaglutide https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaophthalmology/fullarticle/2820255
• Locke Twitter  https://x.com/doc_BLocke/status/1808972226655629610
• When to Start a Statin Is a Preference-Sensitive Decision https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.117.029808

III GLP1-s and Cancer

• Glucagon-Like Peptide 1 Receptor Agonists and 13 Obesity-Associated Cancers in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2820833

IV Screening ECG

• Routine Electrocardiogram Screening and Cardiovascular Disease Events in Adultshttps://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2820721
• Clinical outcomes in systematic screening for atrial fibrillation (STROKESTOP)  https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(21)01637-8
• Implantable loop recorder detection of atrial fibrillation to prevent stroke (The LOOP Study) https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(21)01698-6

IV TEER for Secondary Mitral Regurgitation

• Randomized investigation of the MitraClip device in heart failure: Design and rationale of the RESHAPE-HF2 trial design https://doi.org/10.1002/ejhf.3247
• Percutaneous repair of moderate-to-severe or severe functional mitral regurgitation in patients with symptomatic heart failure: Baseline characteristics of patients in the RESHAPE-HF2 trial and comparison to COAPT and MITRA-FR trials https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ejhf.3286
• Jun 21, 2024 This Week in Cardiology Podcast
• https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/1001237
• Stats Blog https://www.r-bloggers.com/2023/07/the-benjamini-hochberg-procedure-fdr-and-p-value-adjusted-explained/

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