🚨 Cardiorespiratory fitness is a strong and consistent predictor of morbidity and mortality among adults ✅ ❤️ #NEW article giving an overview of meta-analyses representing over 20.9 million observations from 199 unique cohort studies 📄 #OpenAccess ➡️ bit.ly/3UhFD2H

Lifelong strength training preserves fast-twitch muscle fibers, whereas lifelong endurance training does not. This does not mean RE>AE. It does mean though, they confer unique benefits. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37881849/

Muscle as an immune regulatory organ. It's imperative to recognise the multifaceted role of skeletal muscle beyond its traditional function in movement. This is what you need to know. 🧵

Extreme exercise and longevity: detrimental or beneficial? bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/… In a retrospective study of the 1st 200 athletes to run < 4 minute miles, there was evidence of several (~5) years longer lifespan compared with the general population. Still an unsettled question,

Happy orientation day to our new F1’s! We’re so excited to welcome you all to BI! #July1

As part of their welcome to BI, our first year fellows were taken out to sushi dinner with our chief of cardiology & program director 🍣 One of the best things about being a BI 🫀 fellow is how engaged in fellow education our division leadership is! Robert Gerszten Joe Kannam

CV Sports Chat: Dilated Aortas in Athletes 🏃🏻 New American College of Cardiology #SportsCardio interview with the expert, Dr. Alan Braverman, who shares his approach to this common clinical scenario Nicely done by Sean Meagher, MD acc.org/latest-in-card…

New American College of Cardiology: Sean Meagher, MD speaks with Dr. Braverman about dilated aortas in athletes. 🔹Defining aortic ‘dilation’ 🔹Prevalence in athletes 🔹When to consider genetic testing Excited to see the rise of future Sports Cardiology 🌟BIDMC CV Fellowship! bit.ly/4gkjCKu

Clinical features and outcomes in carriers of pathogenic desmoplakin variants. Read more in #EHJ 👉 bit.ly/47ABv43 Rocco Montone EHJ Editor-in-Chief

🫀Does exercise intensity or duration impact heart health more? A study shows longer exercise duration at lower intensity is linked to higher coronary artery calcification, while higher intensity reduces it Balance your workouts to maximize benefits ⏳🏋🏻 academic.oup.com/eurjpc/article…

We had a great turn out at this year’s annual fellow welcome BBQ hosted at our program director Joe Kannam’s house last weekend!

4 weeks of the arm in a cast: -22% strength 🏋️‍♀️ -4% muscle mass 💪 However, these changes can be offset by resistance training 🏋️‍♀️the opposite arm 3 times per week: journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.11…

📢Can deep phenotyping and proteomic profiling identify new #biomarkers in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy? 🧬In Circ: Heart Failure, we leverage OLINK #proteomics to measure >250 proteins in genotype positive #HCM with Cardiac MR data. ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CI… 🧵 (1/7)

DOWN WITH THE NATIONAL CHAMPS 🙌 #LTBR🔻 #D3FB

For those interested in sports cardiology and genetics, below are insights based on last 100 referrals (~60% sports/40% genetics) (Over the past year BIDMC CVI I’ve been seeing athletes with cardiac conditions and caring for patients in the CV genetics program led by Usman Tahir)

Mortality, SCD Higher For Male Professional Than Amateur Bodybuilders - American College of Cardiology acc.org/Latest-in-Card…

Well designed RCT shows patients randomized to an exercise program had substantially improved survival after adjuvant chemotherapy for colon cancer. - 5 yr disease-free survival 80.3% vs 73.9% (HR 0.72) - 8 yr overall survival 90.3% vs 83.2% (HR 0.63) This is groundbreaking! 1/