Cardiology Journal Articles

• Consequences of Discontinuing Long-Term Drugs in HFrEF Currently patients with HF are prescribed many drugs for their lifetime. This paper reviews strategies to assess whether efficacy persists and the potential consequences of discontinuation.
  Journal of the American College of Cardiology, January 03, 2025
• Cardiac Myosin Inhibitors: Is the Emperor Wearing Any Clothes? A commentary on the need for better trials and long-term data for the myosin inhibitors aficamten and mavacamten in obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
  Journal of the American College of Cardiology, December 27, 2024
• Heart Failure Drug Development Over the Eras A summary of current efforts of the Heart Failure Collaboratory that highlights important concepts in the contemporary landscape of HF drug development.
  JACC: Heart Failure, December 20, 2024
• Takeaways From Six Substudies of the Semaglutide Trials A summary of findings from the 6 Substudies of the SELECT, STEP-HFpEF, and FLOW Trials
  Journal of the American College of Cardiology, December 06, 2024
• HF Risk Assessment Using Biomarkers in Patients With AF An analysis from COMBINE-Af on the incremental prognostic performance of NT-proBNP, hs-cTnT, and GDF-15 for HF risk stratification in patients with AF.
  Journal of the American College of Cardiology, December 13, 2024
• Distinct Comorbidity Clusters in Patients With Acute HF Five distinct multimorbidity groups were identified from the RELAX-AHF-2 trial population, showing variations in clinical outcomes.
  JACC: Heart Failure, November 22, 2024
• Triglycerides and Cardiovascular Risk Are triglycerides a true risk factor for ASCVD, or is it the lipoproteins that carry them that are the pathogenetic culprit?
  Journal of the American College of Cardiology, August 07, 2024
• Temporal Trends in Takotsubo Syndrome An analysis of nearly 4,000 cases of Takotsubo syndrome from the InterTAK registry.
  Journal of the American College of Cardiology, July 31, 2024
• Obesity and Weight Loss Strategies in Heart Failure A review of published data on the epidemiology of obesity and HF, the rationale and caveats regarding intentional weight loss for patients with HF across lifestyle, surgical, and medication domains.
  JACC: Heart Failure, November 01, 2024
• Patch Wearable Defibrillator Works, If Patients Stick With It The Jewel IDE trial supports the use of a water-resistant wearable cardioverter-defibrillator patch in adults at risk for sudden cardiac arrest; however 38% of patients exited the study early..
  Journal of the American College of Cardiology, October 25, 2024
• Stable Angina: A Patient-Centered Approach A review of the complementary role of coronary revascularization, optimal medical therapy, and lifestyle interventions in the management of stable angina, and the importance of an approach that targets the pathobiology.
  Journal of the American College of Cardiology, October 18, 2024
• Contemporary In-Hospital Decongestion Strategies in HF A large-scale U.S. community-based cohort study of HF hospitalizations reviews contemporary inpatient diuretic practices and clinical predictors of weight loss.
  JACC: Heart Failure, October 11, 2024
• Impact of Lp(a) on LDL-C or Apo-B-related Risk of CAD A comparison of the association between LDL-C and LDL-C corrected for Lp(a)-C (LDLLp(a)corr) with incident coronary heart disease.
  Journal of the American College of Cardiology, September 09, 2024
• Angina Verification Before PCI An N-of-1 trial to identify which patients achieve greatest symptom relief from percutaneous coronary intervention.
  Journal of the American College of Cardiology, September 03, 2024
• HDL Parameters and Risk of Heart Failure The association between HDL particle concentration and size with heart failure is studied in participants from the ARIC, MESA, PREVEND, and Dallas Heart studies.
  JACC: Heart Failure, August 26, 2024
• What Is a Normal Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction? Multiple studies have suggested conflicting LVEF thresholds for predicting outcome in heart failure. Is there is no clear range at which we can say the LVEF is normal?
  Circulation, October 13, 2023
• CV Outcomes After COVID-19 Vaccine-Associated Myocarditis This follow-up study evaluated the cardiovascular outcomes at up to 1 year in adolescent patients diagnosed with COVID-19 vaccine-associated myocarditis.
  Circulation, October 06, 2023
• Exercise-Induced Chest Pain: Ischemia or Something Else What did ECG stress test reveal about the cause of this 59-year-old man's exertional chest pain?
  Circulation, September 29, 2023
• Sex Differences in Poststroke Cognitive Impairment Does occurrence and characteristics of poststroke cognitive impairment differ between men and women?
  Stroke, September 27, 2023
• Lessons in CVD Prevention From Jackie Robinson This commentary reveals the poor cardiometabolic health and premature ASCVD of baseball great Jackie Robinson, possibly exacerbated by the stress of battling racial tensions throughout his career.
  Circulation, September 22, 2023