Cardiology Podcast Every Friday

My editors at Medscape warned me years ago that many people, especially younger ones, read a lot less. This saddened me because I’ve spent a great deal of time learning to write. One of America’s most accomplished writers, Malcolm Gladwell, began his podcast because he worried about not reaching younger people. Each week, I spend a great deal of time putting together thoughts on the top 4-5 cardiology stories of the week. Most of the ‘stories’ are studies, but not always. I have been doing this podcast for a couple of years now, but haven’t promoted it because I was not sure it would stick. It looks like it has–lots of young doctors have told me they listen. I call the podcast This Week in Cardiology. It’s available here on iTunes. https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-cardiology/id991125169?mt=2 It lasts about 10-15 minutes. Some of it is technical, but not all of it. This last two weeks, I discussed the retraction of the PREDIMED trial. Gosh this is a big deal as PREDIMED was a randomized controlled trial (RCT), and most nutrition studies are observational. The differences in the two types of studies are significant. Observational studies are tough to sort out–because of confounding. Confounding means there are many reasons the two groups could have had different outcomes. Since PREDIMED was an RCT, the randomization of the two groups balance the confounding factors, and one can tell if the treatments causes a d...
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