
AudioScholar Cardiology Weekly
This Week in Cardiology — Aug 17, 2026
Welcome to This Week in Cardiology. This week we're covering 10 notable papers spanning risk stratification with biomarkers and body measurements, imaging to guide decisions in chest pain and cardiomyopathy, and therapeutics ranging from finerenone i… This week's papers: 1. Finerenone and apparent treatment-resistant hypertension in heart failure with mildly reduced or preserved ejection fraction. — European Journal of Heart Failure 2026 2. Vutrisiran Treatment and Changes in Cardiac Parameters and Amyloid Burden Assessed by Cardiovascular MRI. — JAMA Cardiology 2026 3. Cold and Room-Temperature Platelets in Cardiac Surgery: The CHIPS Randomized Clinical Trial. — JAMA 2026 4. Coronary calcium scoring in the evaluation of stable chest pain in general practice: a cluster-randomised trial. — Heart 2026 5. NT-proBNP in relation to clinical characteristics and cardiovascular outcomes in non-anticoagulated patients with atrial fibrillation. — Heart 2026 6. Longitudinal Changes in Heart Stress and the Risk for Cardiovascular Disease and Mortality in Older Adults: An Observational Study. — Annals of Internal Medicine 2026 7. Risk Reclassification Beyond BMI by Waist Circumference and Waist-to-Hip Ratio Across 9 Cardiovascular Outcomes: Results From the Cross-Cohort Collaboration. — Journal of the American College of Cardiology 2026 8. Oral anticoagulants, cognition, and clinical outcomes in atrial fibrillation and Alzheimer's disease: a Swedish nationwide study. — European Heart Journal 2026 9. Gender-related risk of myocardial infarction and subclinical coronary atherosclerosis: a Danish population cohort study. — European Heart Journal 2026 10. The Pediatric Pulmonary Hypertension International Risk Score: A Prediction Model for Outcomes Using Machine Learning. — Circulation 2026 Listen at https://audioscholar.cc/episode/3kshes2mmp

