Red Meat-CVD Link Questioned; Drone AEDs to Bystanders; OCT-FFR in One Step?

A Mendelian randomization study challenged the notion that red and processed meats can cause cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes. (European Journal of Preventive Cardiology)

The American Heart Association voiced its support for the HEARTS Act, which went before the House Energy and Commerce Committee last week and won a unanimous vote to go onto the next step of being reported and placed on the House calendar.

Drone-delivered automated external defibrillators (AEDs) showed promise in mock bystander CPR drills — though volunteers showed a low chest compression fraction. (Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes)

Some people with chest pain and known coronary artery disease may have poor outcomes after being ruled out by the American College of Cardiology Expert Consensus Decision Pathway for chest pain. (Journal of the American College of Cardiology)

Optical coherence tomography (OCT)-derived virtual flow reserve passed a validation study for predicting invasive fractional flow reserve (FFR) in intermediate coronary artery stenoses. (Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions)

The totality of the evidence favors a strategy of a short window of dual antiplatelet therapy followed by ticagrelor (Brilinta) monotherapy after percutaneous coronary intervention, but this could not be said for clopidogrel (Plavix) monotherapy. (JAMA Cardiology)

Prior transcatheter aortic valve replacement did not track with more subsequent coronary revascularizations, whereas the data for in-hospital mortality in acute myocardial infarction were not consistent. (JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions)

COVID-19 patients with viral acute respiratory distress syndrome can develop cardiac inflammation that damages hearts even without SARS-CoV-2 or another virus directly infecting the heart tissue. (Circulation)

The negative lipid consequences of prolonged physical inactivity may depend on age, according to research highlighted by the American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

Artificial intelligence was trained to hunt for structural abnormalities suggestive of heart failure — severe left ventricular hypertrophy and dilated left ventricles — from chest x-rays alone. (European Heart Journal)

Outcomes after myectomy in people with obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy were about the same with or without concomitant mitral leaflet shortening. (Annals of Thoracic Surgery)

A decision model could pick the couples who will see the most risk reduction from preimplantation genetic testing for inherited cardiac disease in their potential offspring. (Circulation: Genomic and Precision Medicine)

Actor and former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) said he is recovering from pacemaker implant surgery, which he needed after developing an arrhythmia from a prior heart valve surgery. (People)

Turning off all idle-running interventional imaging systems overnight and on weekends would cut carbon emissions and electricity costs. (American Journal of Roentgenology)

Sex differences in blood pressure appeared to have a link to a particular olfactory receptor. (Science Advances)

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