“I have this recurrent thought that my great-grandkids will read that there was once a country called the U.S.A. where we used overwhelming manipulation of food and advertising to create an enormously obese population. And our solution to it was to invent a class of drugs that

Outstanding effort by the #ARREST-AF team @drrpathak Adrian Elliott Melissa Middeldorp to bring the ARREST-AF-RCT to presentation AHA Science #AHA24 This adds to the observational data presented in the ARREST-AF Cohort Study doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc… Confirms the role of #LRFM in

📣3 days 2 go 4 our 2nd Biennial MO-KS EP Fellows meeting 🧐Fellow Case & Research Presentations 🧑‍🎓Faculty Presentations - Innovative EP Techniques 🤔Faculty Presentations - 'Most Memorable Lab Day' 🍰🍰Icing on the cake - EP Fellows Jeopardy Competition! #EPeeps #CardioTwitter

The honor of my career to lead this along with Aaron Baggish and Ben Levine. Experts around the world updating new #guidelines for sports for #athletes with heart disease. Major changes! #SDM #sportscards. Published today! American College of Cardiology American Heart Association ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CI…

🚨 Ten years since its last iteration, the updated AHA/ACC #SportsCardio Guidelines are finally here! Herculean effort led by Jonathan Kim, MD, MSc, FACC, FAHA Aaron Baggish & Ben Levine Honored to be a part of this new foundational document for the field ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CI…

ICYMI: A 🆕 AHA/ACC Scientific Statement provides updated clinical guidance on how to assess risk when considering competitive sports participation for people w/ various CV conditions. Read more: bit.ly/3DdmOsC #ACCSportsCardio #JACC Jonathan Kim, MD, MSc, FACC, FAHA JACC Journals

Healio spoke with Jonathan Kim, MD, MSc, FACC, FAHA, head team cardiologist for the Atlanta Falcons, the Atlanta Hawks, Atlanta Braves, Atlanta Dream and Atlanta United about the updated guidelines and how they can be used to guide care of the athletic heart Emory Sports Medicine healio.com/news/cardiolog…

Not all sports demand the same from the heart. 🏃🏽‍♂️🏋🏽‍♂️ The new classification system moves from rigid categories to a spectrum of endurance & strength—key for athletes with CVD. Should eligibility be more flexible? #SportsCardiology

The 2025 ACC/AHA guidelines for competitive athletes with cardiovascular conditions were released last week. Phenomenal effort - congrats to Jonathan Kim, MD, MSc, FACC, FAHA Drs. Levine, Baggish and all the co-authors Below are 10 takeaways, focusing on what’s changed from the prior 2015

Atrial fibrillation is far more heritable than generally perceived. Two new reports Nature Genetics identify many more linked genomic variants and a refined polygenic risk score Patrick Ellinor nature.com/articles/s4158… nature.com/articles/s4158…

Thank you Radcliffe Cardiology for another opportunity to summarize the new American College of Cardiology American Heart Association #sports elibility guidelines #sportscards #SDM radcliffecardiology.com/video-index/ah…

Catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia and early-onset atrial fibrillation in a tactical athlete with a heterozygous truncating variant in TRDN Doug Darden heartrhythmcasereports.com/article/S2214-…

Important new data on cardiac arrest in US marathons/half-marathons (2010-2023) by Jonathan Kim, MD, MSc, FACC, FAHA at #ACC25 🔹 Incidence unchanged (0.6 per 100k), but deaths down vs 2000-09 🔹 Survival has increased, likely due to CPR & AED access 🔹 Coronary artery disease is the leading cause

⁦DJ Lakkireddy⁩ presenting NEMESIS PFA study results at #HRS2025 high impact session ⁦Rakesh Gopinath⁩ ⁦Krishna Pothineni⁩ ⁦Doug Darden⁩ ⁦KCHRS⁩ ⁦HCA Midwest Health⁩ ⁦KCHRI⁩

⁦Rakesh Gopinath⁩ debating at Business in EP session at #HRS2025 ⁦DJ Lakkireddy⁩ ⁦Doug Darden⁩ ⁦Krishna Pothineni⁩ ⁦Kansas City Heart Rhythm Institute⁩ ⁦HCA Midwest Health⁩ ⁦Heart Rhythm Society⁩

🧠 “Is PFA truly as safe as we think?” Pulsed Field Ablation (PFA) is praised for its nonthermal, tissue-selective profile— But the latest data from the NEMESIS-PFA trial (JACC: Clin EP, 2025) raises caution. This large multicenter registry assessed collateral effects of PFA vs.

📌 Preventing SCD in athletes 🏃‍♂️ 👉 Potential arrhythmic ⚡️ effects of certain stimulants 🧃 & performance enhancing drugs 💊 #EPeeps #CardioTwitter #MedTwitter #SportsCardiology #SCD Sanjay Sharma Sabiha Gati Erin D. Michos, M.D. Prof Michael Papadakis @DavidNiederseer CRY SADS Foundation

Our new study on the AHA PREVENT Equations and Lp(a) is out now JAMA Cardiology Alexander C. Razavi JaredSpitzMD Jaideep Michael D. Shapiro Sam Tsimikas, MD Anurag Mehta UC San Diego Cardiology UC San Diego Cardiology Fellows ASPC Family Heart Foundation #KnowLpa Key Points in the thread below:

NEMESIS-PFA: Investigating Collateral Tissue Injury Associated With Pulsed Field Ablation bit.ly/43N9Pr1 Andrea Natale MD DJ Lakkireddy Luigi Di Biase Doug Darden Rakesh Gopinath Rajesh Kabra Jalaj Garg Krishna Pothineni Scott Koerber

Happy birthday to the UC San Diego Cardiology legend of Atrial Flutter ablation and rock and roll, Dr. Feld!