Aug 29 2025 This Week in Cardiology

CAC 0 takes a gut punch, ICD therapies cannot be surrogates for benefit, and two important trials from ESC are the topics John Mandrola, MD, discusses in this week’s podcast.

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I CAC 0

• LDL-C and CVD Risk With CAC Score 0 https://academic.oup.com/eurheartj/advance-article/doi/10.1093/eurheartj/ehaf497/8228645

II ICD Therapies

• Contemporary ICD Benefit https://www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.jacep.2025.06.028
• PROFID Trial https://profid-project.eu/profid-ehra-trial/
• MADIT-RIT Trial https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1211107
• Declining Risk of Sudden Death in HF https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1609758

III Digit-HF

• DIGIT-HF Trial https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2415471
• Digoxin–Mortality: Comparison in the DIG trial https://academic.oup.com/eurheartj/article/40/40/3336/5520008

IV POTCAST

• POTCAST trial https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2509542

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IV HTN Guidelines

• New Blood Pressure Guidelines: 4 Things I Like and 2 Concerns  https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/new-blood-pressure-guidelines-4-thing-i-and-2-concerns-2025a1000m1x

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