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Heart Podcast
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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Episodes
Sunday Dec 10, 2017
Sunday Dec 10, 2017
In this episode of the Heart podcast, Digital Media Editor Dr. James Rudd is joined by a vascular biology legend, Professor Peter Libby from Harvard University and Chief of Cardiovascular Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. They discuss how the inflammation hypothesis of atherosclerosis has been proven by the CANTOS trial and what the future might hold. We trust you'll enjoy the police sirens in the middle of the interview and hope you enjoy the discussion.
Link for CANTOS study - http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1707914
Wednesday Nov 15, 2017
Wednesday Nov 15, 2017
In this episode of the Heart podcast, Digital Media Editor Dr. James Rudd is joined by Dr Andrew D'Silva, author of a comprehensive Education in Heart paper about assessing and treating older athletes with heart conditions.
Link to published paper: http://heart.bmj.com/content/early/2017/10/30/heartjnl-2016-310744
Sunday Nov 12, 2017
Sunday Nov 12, 2017
In this episode of the Heart podcast, Digital Media Editor Dr. James Rudd is joined by Professor Ian Graham, from Trinity College Dublin. Professor Graham is a world authority in preventative cardiology. They discuss the differences in reaching secondary prevention targets amongst men and women in three different areas of the world.
Link to published paper: http://heart.bmj.com/content/103/20/1587
Tuesday Oct 24, 2017
Tuesday Oct 24, 2017
In this episode of the Heart podcast, Digital Media Editor Dr. James Rudd is joined by Professor Nick Morrell, a pulmonary hypertension expert from Cambridge, UK. First, they discuss the classification of pulmonary hypertension. They then move on to contemporary patient management and the latest in pulmonary hypertension research.
Link to published paper: http://heart.bmj.com/content/102/20/1680 and to Professor Morrell's research lab - https://www.bhf.org.uk/research/our-top-professors/professor-nick-morrell
Wednesday Oct 11, 2017
Wednesday Oct 11, 2017
In this episode of the Heart podcast, Digital Media Editor Dr. James Rudd is joined by Dr. Aseem Malhotra from Lister Hospital, Stevenage, UK. They discuss what we should tell our patients about diet and exercise - high fat, low fat or something else?
Link to published paper: http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/51/15/1111
Tuesday Sep 12, 2017
Tuesday Sep 12, 2017
In this episode of the Heart podcast, Digital Media Editor Dr. James Rudd is joined by Dr. Ronak Rajani from Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital, London. They discuss the clinical trials and applications of FFR CT.
Link to published paper: http://heart.bmj.com/content/103/15/1216.long
Tuesday Aug 22, 2017
Tuesday Aug 22, 2017
In this episode of the Heart podcast, Digital Media Editor Dr. James Rudd is joined by Shelley Wood, a journalist and managing editor of TCTMD.com. They discuss how to get the most from a medical conference, what’s going to be big at ESC 2017 and why you should always pack your running shoes in your conference bag.
Link to TCTMD: https://www.tctmd.com/
Monday Aug 14, 2017
Monday Aug 14, 2017
In this episode of the Heart podcast, Digital Media Editor Dr. James Rudd is joined by Dr Raja Selvaraj from the Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Puducherry, India. They discuss the pressing need for the reuse of cardiac devices in low and middle income countries and his research in this area.
Link to published paper: http://heartasia.bmj.com/content/9/1/59
Monday Jul 31, 2017
Monday Jul 31, 2017
In this episode of the Heart podcast, Digital Media Editor Dr. James Rudd is joined by Professor Benjamin Levine from UT Southwestern Medical Center, Texas. They discuss the physiological challenges presented by space travel and how astronauts can adapt. And James discovers he could still become an astronaut (at least as far as his heart is concerned) - there’s hope yet!
Link to authors details: http://profiles.utsouthwestern.edu/profile/14262/benjamin-levine.html
Monday Jul 31, 2017
Monday Jul 31, 2017
In this episode of the Heart podcast, Digital Media Editor Dr. James Rudd is joined by Professor Pier Lambiase from Bart's Heart Centre and University College London. They discuss arrhythmia-induced cardiomyopathy - its causes, incidence, treatment and outcomes.
Link to published paper: http://heart.bmj.com/content/103/19/1543.