Bill Clinton had 8 exercise stress tests when he was in office and 'passed' each of them with flying colours. He then had a heart test that showed he need coronary artery bypass surgery. Want to know what test he had? 🧵👇 /1

The subject of sports will likely come up…

Coronary Calcium scans just received a big lift. Medicare & Medicaid: CAC > 0 + BMI ≥ 27 = Semaglutide Rx

Our review on subclinical atherosclerosis imaging to risk stratify & guide treatment approaches in dyslipidemia & diabetes now in Current Atherosclerosis Reports | Miriam E. Katz, MPH Gowtham Grandhi Albert Danso Osei Michael J. Blaha & Dr. Antonio Gallo 🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Aspirin Use for Primary Prevention Among US Adults With & Without Elevated Lipoprotein(a) - Provocative research led by ⁦Emory Cardiology⁩ Prevention gurus Drs. Alex Razavi & Larry Sperling along with other Atlanta, Baltimore, & New England sports fans sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

The GLP-1 family of drugs have exceeded all expectations, beyond diabetes and obesity. Now there's a pre-clinical GLP-1 and NMDA dual receptor drug with many enhanced features that could prove to be another step forward nature nature.com/articles/d4158… nature.com/articles/s4158…

Excellent review led by Dr. Gary Soroosh The Osler Medical Residency Erfan Tasdighi Michael J. Blaha Coronary artery calcium in 2023: Guidelines for LDL-C goals, non-stati... sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center Johns Hopkins Cardiology Johns Hopkins Medicine #🥍🏏⚽️🏀⛳️

The ABCs of the 2023 AHA/ACC/ACCP/ASPC/NLA/PCNA guideline for the management of patients with chronic coronary disease led by ⁦Michael Khorsandi, MD⁩ ⁦Dr. Payal Kohli, MD⁩ ⁦Michael J. Blaha⁩ ⁦Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center⁩ ⁦Johns Hopkins Cardiology⁩ #🐦🥍🏏⚽️🏀 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cl…

Our latest paper "The ABCs of the 2023 Multisociety guideline for the Management of patients with chronic coronary disease" pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38766996/ I am Honored to have worked under the guidance of legends Michael J. Blaha Roger Blumenthal Dr. Payal Kohli, MD Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center Johns Hopkins Cardiology

🔴The ABCs of the 2023 AHA/ACC/ACCP/ASPC/NLA/PCNA guideline for the management of patients with chronic coronary disease #OpenAccess #2024Review onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cl… #medtwitterWhat #MedTwitter #CardioEd #medx #medEd #CardioTwitter #cardiotwitter #MedX #MedEd #cardiology

Terrific Johns Hopkins Cardiology Grand Rounds today by Dr. Thomas Schindler Thomas H Schindler on PET/CT assessment of coronary morphology and flow. Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center

Can we/should we prioritize 'fair' allocation of limited resources-a proposed framework now applied to distribution of GLP-1 medicines, elevating severe #obesity over #Obesity #Heartdisease nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

I am very happy to see this great work finally published. It was a pleasure to have been able to participate in it. Similar to the CAC score, the plaque burden determined by carotid US can be used to personalize the indication for low dose aspirin. Michael J. Blaha Omar Dzaye

Trends in use of colchicine by cardiologists & other specialties, 2018 to 2024 - ⁦AmericanHeartJ⁩ led by ⁦Michael Khorsandi, MD⁩ ⁦Michael J. Blaha⁩ ⁦Erfan Tasdighi⁩ ⁦Omar Dzaye⁩ et al ⁦Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center⁩ ⁦Johns Hopkins Cardiology⁩ sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Been trying to up my med ed game by spending more time on visual aids in my teaching. I spent longer than I care to admit updating this slide in my ECG fundamentals talk to explain the frontal plane. Arron Pearce

Since everyone liked the frontal plane animation so much, here's one I worked even harder on to explain pacemaker mediated tachycardia. Works better with voice over narration, but gets the point across without, I hope.

Quick rant. Sending asymptomatic patients with stable CAD for yearly nuclear stress tests when they have no symptoms is so absurd & I cannot believe this still happens in 2025. Instead- get your patient on the correct GDMT for their CAD plus nutrition & exercise counseling.

Obesity is strongly associated with the incidence of 📈 HTN, T2DM, Dyslipidemia 💔 HF, Atrial Fibrillation, CKD 🫁 PE, DVT, OSA, Asthma 🦵 Gout, OA 🍽️ MASLD, GERD, Biliary Disease Fantastic article by our superstar Jackie Yao NEJM NEJM Evidence Beverly G. Tchang, MD Roger Blumenthal

Preventive Cardiology Legends! Dr. Martha Gulati ♥️🫀❤️‍🩹🇨🇦 Roger Blumenthal What an outstanding group!!!

Truly outstanding work by our former Johns Hopkins Cardiology Chief Fellow & translational researcher Dr. Jana Lovell!