Tour de force BIDMC CVI grand rounds by Alka Kanaya:

# U.S. South Asians are not a monolith
# ⬆️⬆️CV risk driven by diabetes + beta cell dysfn + ins resistance
# low exercise + sarcopenia
# similar LDL-C but ⬆️ Lp(a)
# Tight social network-activate for lifestyle change #MASALA

As part of the AHA Science Centennial Collection, Rishi Wadhera, MD MPP and Karen Joynt Maddox discuss how health policy reforms over the past 2 decades have impacted cardiovascular outcomes, and describe emerging challenges in the health care landscape.

Circ: CQO
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Out today in JAMA, in this Viewpoint available with free access, Jason H. Wasfy, M.D., James Januzzi Jr MD, and I pose the question:

Is Myocardial Infarction Overdiagnosed?

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Congrats to Zaid Almarzooq for receiving the Jaber Al-Ahmad Award for Young Researchers from he Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences!

BIDMC Smith Center Brigham and Women's Hospital

Join me in honoring Don Cutlip MD as the Donald S. Baim Endowed Chair of Interventional Cardiology Baim Institute

Dr. Cutlip has been an international leader in interventional cardiology for 3 decade’s now & founded the Academic Research Consortium (ARC) (created stent

Dr. Kearney and I discuss the Short Cut Trial and how it moves the needle from 'My best guess' to 'here is the best data in real world practice' as this trial evaluates multiple modalities for calcium treatment. #shortcuttrial

@kalaswadMD Margaret McEntegart Jarrod Frizzell
Robert Stoler MD

Acute cardiovascular hospitalizations decreased among Medicare beneficiaries in socioeconomically disadvantaged & non-disadvantaged neighborhoods over 2 decades in the US, though disparities persist.
Rishi Wadhera, MD MPP Eric Secemsky MD MSc Robert W. Yeh MD et al in Circ: CQO
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I enjoyed my conversation w Robert W. Yeh MD on how to produce high quality evidence regarding medical interventions and how we might think about what's required to have more useful observational data. theheartorg | Medscape BIDMC Smith Center Tricia Ward medscape.com/viewarticle/10…

🚨New in JAMA Health Forum🚨

We study the impact of Medicare’s TCM program on rates of timely primary care follow up after hospitalization.

👍Follow up rates are rising
👎60% of patients do not receive timely follow up
👎Disparities are widening

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Honored to host Nobel Laureate Professor Josh Angrist as the 2024 BIDMC Smith Center Visiting Professor this morning. Phenomenal talk on instrumental variable methods and their application in cardiovascular research and clinical trials!

Dr. Maehera and I discuss Short Cut Trail and how to optimize IVUS and other imaging to gain insight into calcium and it’s role in outcomes #shortcuttrial

@kalaswadMD Margaret McEntegart Jarrod Frizzell Robert Stoler MD
@rhianEdavies1 Yale School of Medicine @nilaypatelMD @suzannejbaron Robert W. Yeh MD @maeharaakiko

Our Circ: CQO study finds ⬇️ cardiovascular hospitalizations in both socioeconomically disadvantaged & non-disadvantaged US communities over the past 2 decades, although disparities persist

30-day mortality rates now similar for MI, HF, & stroke
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Just published #OriginalResearch in #CircCQO from Rishi Wadhera, MD MPP et al: Community Socioeconomic Status, Acute CV Hospitalizations, & Mortality in Medicare, 2003 to 2019

Read more: ahajournals.org/doi/abs/10.116…

#AHAJournals Eric Secemsky MD MSc Robert W. Yeh MD AHA Science Ritu Thamman MD Brahmajee Nallamothu

A mesmerizing and masterful Penn Cardiology Grand Rounds this morning w/Lisa Rosenbaum on why narrative matters

She tackled the doctor-patient relationship, value-based care, #MedEd , burnout, & more — no slides needed

📸: reading an excerpt from one of her grandfather’s 📖

Take Key Topics in Causal Inference (KTCI) with CAUSALab Director Miguel Hernán MD, DrPH!

Kolokotrones Prof. Biostatistics & Epidemiology Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, he designs causal #publichealth frameworks

Courses: KTCI, ACA, TTE. Register to learn from Miguel: causalab.sph.harvard.edu/courses/

Welcome to the team Lichen Liang, PhD - Lead Biostatistician!
His work focuses on developing statistical methodologies for the analysis of large-scale medical datasets.
#SmithCenterSpotlight

Presented today at #ACC24 :

A randomized trial that enrolled patients with severe aortic stenosis at low or intermediate surgical risk showed that TAVI was noninferior to SAVR at 1 year. Read the full DEDICATE-DZHK6 trial results: nej.md/3TLx8MT

(1/2) In the aftermath of #ACC24 , it is a good time to review one of the best articles ever written on interpreting clinical trials by Dr. Robert M. Califf :
shorturl.at/qtAK2

Robert Harrington C. Michael Gibson MD Rasha Al-Lamee