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Championing Change: Celebrating Cardiometabolic Health Congress (CMHC) Women Faculty

Cardiometabolic Health Congress

She is one of the first fellowship-trained obesity medicine physicians in the world. Anuradha Lala-Trindade, MD: She focuses on the selection and care of patients with mechanical circulatory support devices and heart transplantation, genetic cardiomyopathies, and perioperative management of high-risk cardiac surgical cases.

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Highlights of ACC 2024

Cardiology Update

STEP-HFpEF DM 5 ( NCT04916470 ) explored the effects of semaglutide in obesity-related HF with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) and type 2 diabetes. Investigators randomized 616 adult patients with HFpEF and obesity to receive either once weekly semaglutide (n=310) or placebo (n=306).

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The legal case – naming a few names

Dr. Malcolm Kendrick

He ran into problems: ‘ Many declined because they felt that participation would jeopardize their grants and perks or, sadder still, because they believe their academic positions would be threatened… when he tried to organize a conference he was told. ‘I The study, published in the Journal Obesity Facts relied on evidence from 14 studies.