Caitlin Cox

News Editor at TCTMD

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EMS Practices for OHCA Diverge Between Black/Hispanic, White Areas

2 days ago | tctmd.com | Caitlin Cox

This explains at least some of the racial/ethnic gaps in survival, researchers say. Harder to pinpoint is exactly why practices differ. Emergency medical services (EMS) agencies that serve predominantly Black/Hispanic areas differ in their approaches to out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) compared with those serving mostly white populations, survey data show.
TCTMD’s Top 10 Most Popular Stories for May 2025

1 week ago | tctmd.com | Caitlin Cox

News Opinion Editor's Corner Our most-read articles explore “occlusion MI” versus STEMI, TAVI in asymptomatic AS, and highlights from recent conferences. For May, TCTMD’s top 10 stories highlight the field’s greatest hits—TAVI in asymptomatic patients, the vagaries of statin decision-making, embolic protection woes, the latest on SGLT2 inhibitors, pulsed-field ablation safety, and more.
Pressure-Based Physiological Testing Results Diverge Between LAD, LCx

1 week ago | tctmd.com | Caitlin Cox

Relying on iFR/FFR values from the LCx alone could mean many patients with left main disease miss out on revascularization. For patients with isolated left main (LM) coronary artery disease, pressure-based physiological testing—whether by fractional flow reserve (FFR) or instantaneous wave-free ratio (iFR)—reveals different findings based on the territory in which the assessment is done, new data show.
What’s the Damage With Long COVID? Advanced Imaging Reveals Clues

1 week ago | tctmd.com | Caitlin Cox

Researchers used PET/MRI to detect otherwise invisible inflammation. Less clear is how this might influence patient care. Many patients referred for specialty care to address long-COVID symptoms have subtle evidence of inflammation and other cardiopulmonary abnormalities that can be detected with advanced imaging, a single-center study shows.
Registry Data Rekindle Talk Over the Best Valve for TAVI in Small Annuli

2 weeks ago | tctmd.com | Caitlin Cox

As in the SMART trial, early hemodynamic differences have yet to result in a clinical impact—but it may just be a matter of time. Debates over which transcatheter valves work best in small aortic annuli are being rekindled by new observational data—like the SMART trial before it, the IMPPACT TAVR registry shows no mortality difference between balloon-expandable and self-expanding devices a few years after treatment.
Conversion Therapy Tied to Worse CV Risk Factors in Sexual, Gender Minorities

2 weeks ago | tctmd.com | Caitlin Cox

Individuals assigned male at birth who were pushed to change their identity had more inflammation and higher blood pressure. Gay men, transgender women, and nonbinary people who’ve undergone efforts change their sexual orientation and/or gender identity show signs of worse cardiovascular health in young adulthood, according to data from the RADAR cohort study.
Poor Cardiometabolic Health in Pregnancy Tied to Higher BP for Young Offspring

3 weeks ago | tctmd.com | Caitlin Cox

The early impact of gestational diabetes, hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, and obesity appears to grow as kids age. Babies born to mothers with cardiometabolic risk factors—hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP), gestational diabetes, and/or prepregnancy diabetes—tend to have higher blood pressure during early childhood, according to findings from the Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) program.
Conversion Therapy Tied to Worse CV Risk Factors in Sex, Gender Minorities

1 month ago | tctmd.com | Caitlin Cox

Individuals assigned male at birth who were pushed to change their identity had more inflammation and higher blood pressure. Gay men, transgender women, and nonbinary people who’ve undergone efforts change their sexual orientation and/or gender identity show signs of worse cardiovascular health in young adulthood, according to data from the RADAR cohort study.
AHA/ACC Issue New Performance, Quality Measures for Chronic Coronary Disease

1 month ago | tctmd.com | Caitlin Cox

With both new and revised measures, the document’s authors aim to provide clinicians usable advice in a digestible format. The American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology (AHA/ACC) have teamed up to fine-tune performance and quality measures for chronic coronary disease, publishing their recommendations online in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Writing group chair Marlene S.
Access to GLP-1 Drugs Unequal for US Patients With Obesity

1 month ago | tctmd.com | Caitlin Cox

Yet the disparities by sex, race/ethnicity, and location pale in comparison to a striking overall lack of adoption. Fewer than 3% of eligible people with obesity in the United States receive prescriptions to glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists, with differences in access seen by sex, race/ethnicity, and where the patients live, new real-world data suggest.