Jun 14 2024 This Week in Cardiology

Listener feedback, statin eligibility and Yogi Berra, evidence-based medicine and heterogenous treatment effects, and MRAs in HF are the topics John Mandrola, MD, discusses in this week’s podcast.

This podcast is intended for healthcare professionals only.

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I. Listener Feedback

• ASPIRE AF https://classic.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03968393
• Butala paper: Stroke After TAVR With and Without EPD https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1161/CIRCINTERVENTIONS.123.013697
• PROTECTED TAVR
• Heuts meta-analysis: EPD During TAVR https://heart.bmj.com/content/110/11/757

II. Statin Eligibility

• JAMA-IM: Data Analytic Choices and Predicting Vascular Events https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2819821
• Zeraatker Specification Analysis Paper https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2024.111278
• PCE https://www.mdcalc.com/calc/3398/ascvd-atherosclerotic-cardiovascular-disease-2013-risk-calculator-aha-acc

III. Heterogenous Treatment Effect

• Weisberg and Dailey-Higgs
• DANISH

IV. Heart Failure and MRAs 

• RALES https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199909023411001
• EMPHASIS https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1009492
• Combined analysis (Matsumoto)

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