Low Lipoprotein(a) Harm; Soccer Pro Collapses Again; Cancer-Related Ischemic Stroke?

A low lipoprotein(a) level was tied to incident diabetes in the FOURIER trial. (European Heart Journal)

People with 1.5 to 2 hours of strength training a week typically lived longer in a pooled cohort study. (British Journal of Sports Medicine)

Danish soccer player Christian Eriksen collapsed again during a game but quickly regained consciousness. In 2021, he’d had a cardiac arrest and received an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD). (ESPN)

The ICD likely saved Eriksen’s life this time, a cardiologist explained to Danish media outlet BT.dk. (Flashscore)

Preemptive heart rhythm monitoring using smartphone photoplethysmography helped to avoid same-day cancellations of atrial fibrillation or flutter cardioversions. (JAMA Cardiology)

Female sex looked more like a risk modifier rather than an independent risk factor for thromboembolic stroke in people with atrial fibrillation, a study found from real-world observations. (JACC: Advances)

The American Society of Echocardiography has a new guideline out for intraprocedural imaging in mitral valve transcatheter edge-to-edge repair.

A multi-society expert consensus document on coronary CT angiography-derived fractional flow reserve assessments was released in the Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography.

In the DECLARE-TIMI 58 trial, carriers of cardiomyopathy genetic variants had disproportionately greater benefits taking dapagliflozin (Farxiga) for cardiovascular protection than noncarriers. (Nature Medicine)

There was prognostic value in the left ventricular stroke volume index on cardiac MRI among patients with takotsubo syndrome. (Heart)

Newly discovered DNA methylation signatures for atherosclerosis were reported. (Journal of the American College of Cardiology)

For heart donation after circulatory death, controlled hypothermia may be a viable alternative organ preservation method, a pig study showed. (Journal of the American Heart Association)

At one U.S. primary care center, implementation of a HEARTS-based quality improvement project helped patients achieve blood pressure control. (Lancet Regional Health-Americas)

The FDA approved Edwards Lifesciences’ Triformis Resilia, a surgical valve for the tricuspid position. (Mass Device)

Researchers make a case that some cryptogenic strokes should be reclassified as cancer-related ischemic stroke. (Stroke)

Genetic variants for higher pulse pressure were associated with dementia-related death, according to an observational cohort study. (Neurology)