Heart Podcast
BMJ Group
The Heart Podcast is your go-to source for the latest insights and developments in cardiovascular medicine. Each episode features in-depth interviews with renowned authors and leading experts in the field, delving into the latest advances in cardiovascular research and treatments.Heart - heart.bmj.com - is a renowned international journal from the BMJ Group and the British Cardiovascular Society (BCS) dedicated to publishing research and reviews on cardiovascular disease. Stay ahead in your field by tuning into our expert discussions and accessing cutting-edge information.Subscribe now or listen on your favourite podcast platform to elevate your understanding of cardiovascular medicine. The Heart podcast is published twice a month, every other Tuesday.Podcast hosted by:Professor James Rudd, Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and Consultant Cardiologist, University of Cambridge and Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge.
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Oct 27, 2015 • 6min
Education in Heart - The Relaunch, with Dr Sarah Clarke
In this podcast Dr James Rudd talks to Dr Sarah Clarke, President of the British Cardiovascular Society and Editor of the Education in Heart section of the journal. They talk about the education stream of the journal, new multimedia developments, and aligning content with the ESC curriculum.
Oct 20, 2015 • 12min
ESC conference London - Stephen Nicholls
In this podcast Dr James Rudd talks to Professor Stephen Nicholls, consultant cardiologist and Deputy Director of the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute in Adelaide, at the 2015 European Cardiology meeting in London. They discuss the next generation of lipid therapies and imaging as a surrogate marker of disease.
Oct 13, 2015 • 12min
Healthcare outcomes for treatment-naïve cancer patients using cardiovascular biomarkers
In this podcast Dr James Rudd speaks to Dr Alexander Lyon, consultant cardiologist at the Royal Brompton Hospital, about the effects of cancer treatments on the heart, the problems of an aging population, and the new field of cardio-oncology.
Editorial >> http://heart.bmj.com/content/early/2015/09/09/heartjnl-2015-308208.full
Full paper >> http://heart.bmj.com/content/early/2015/09/08/heartjnl-2015-307848.full
Sep 25, 2015 • 7min
Is anger a trigger for cardiovascular disease?
Editor-in-Chief Dr Catherine Otto talks to Dr Elizabeth Mostofsky at the Cardiac Society of Australia & New Zealand meeting in Melbourne. They discuss the various environmental, physical and psychological triggers for heart disease.
Sep 25, 2015 • 10min
Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction
Editor-in-Chief Dr Catherine Otto talks to Dr Carolyn Lam at the Cardiac Society of Australia & New Zealand meeting in Melbourne. They discuss her session on heart failure with preserved ejection fraction.
Sep 25, 2015 • 9min
Ebstein’s anomaly in adults
Editor-in-Chief Dr Catherine Otto talks to Dr David Calemajer at the Cardiac Society of Australia & New Zealand meeting in Melbourne. They discuss his session on managing the large spectrum of Ebstein's anomaly in adults in the absence of RCT data.
Sep 22, 2015 • 17min
Cardiovascular biomarkers in cancer patients and their association with all-cause mortality
Alistair Lindsey talks to Martin Hülsmann and Noemi Pavo, both from the Medical University of Vienna, about their paper examining cardiovascular biomarkers in cancer patients.
Paper: http://heart.bmj.com/content/early/2015/09/08/heartjnl-2015-307848.abstract
Sep 3, 2015 • 16min
Habitual chocolate consumption and risk of cardiovascular disease among healthy men and women
Chocolate is an important dietary source of flavonoid antioxidants, which are hypothesised to have a beneficial effect on endothelial function and protect against cardiovascular disease (CVD).
In this podcast Dr Alistair Lindsay talks to Dr Phyo K Myint about his team's research into this topic. In order to evaluate any association between habitual chocolate consumption and the risk of cardiovascular events, they analysed data from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer-Norfolk (EPIC-Norfolk), and incorporated the results from this observational study into the evidence available to date.
Jul 23, 2015 • 10min
Haemodynamic and anatomic progression of aortic stenosis
Aortic valve stenosis (AS) is a progressive disease, but the impact of baseline AS haemodynamic or anatomic severity on AS progression remains unclear. In this podcast Dr Alistair Lindsay talks to Dr Virginia Nguyen about her study to evaluate the impact of baseline AS severity assessed, either by using echocardiography (haemodynamic assessment) or MSCT (anatomic assessment) on AS progression.
Jun 8, 2015 • 11min
PCI recommendations and guidelines 2015
Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) has a considerable evidence base and it is firmly established as the most common procedure used in the invasive treatment of patients with CHD in the UK. The evidence base relating to PCI has been reviewed and this has been published in Heart. The guidelines focus on issues pertinent to practice within the UK and set out a recommended template to ensure optimal delivery of patient care. Dr Alistair Lindsay speaks to Professor Adrian Banning from the John Radcliffe Hospital at the University of Oxford who was co-author on the guidelines.
