Feb 23 2024 This Week in Cardiology

Reading incidental CAC on chest CT scans, exercise benefits in women vs men, PCI with or without imaging, and trial non-reporting are the topics John Mandrola, MD, discusses in this week’s podcast. This podcast is intended for healthcare professionals only. To read a partial transcript or to comment, visit: https://www.medscape.com/twic I. Incidental CAC on Chest CT Incidental CAC Tweet When Does a Calcium Score Equate to Secondary Prevention?: Insights From the Multinational CONFIRM Registry https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcmg.2023.03.008 II. Exercise Health Gains of Exercise Greater in Women? https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/health-gains-exercise-greater-women-2024a10003fv Sex Differences in Association of Physical Activity With All-Cause and Cardiovascular Mortality III. PCI With or Without Imaging Intravascular Imaging in PCI: Time for a Guideline Update? https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/995677  Meta-analysis paper Lancet https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(23)02454-6 Imaging uptake paper https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehad430 IV. Trial Non-reporting The Ghost Research Haunting Nordic Medical Trials https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/ghost-research-haunting-nordic-medical-trials-2024a10003gz Manuscript/preprint https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.04.24301363v1#T10 Nissen (Rosiglitazone) https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa072761 You may also like: The Bob Harrington Show with the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean of Weill Cornell Medicine, Robert A. Harrington, MD. https://www.medscape.com/author/bob-harrington Questions or feedback, please contact [email protected]