Circulation On The Run

  Dr. Carolyn Lam: Welcome to Circulation On The Run, your weekly podcast summary and backstage pass to the Journal and its editors. I'm Dr. Carolyn Lam, associate editor from the National Heart Center and Duke National University of Singapore. Dr. Greg Hundley: I'm Greg Hundley, associate editor from the Pauley Heart Center at VCU Health in Richmond, Virginia. Dr. Carolyn Lam: Greg, you know I'm vegetarian and any paper on plant-based diet will always interest me, and of course, we have one as a featured paper this week, very interestingly talking about changes in plant-based diet quality, meaning that there could be good plant-based diets and not so good plant-based diets. I mean we all know that potato chips, for example, are still plant-based. But, anyways, so this feature paper discusses the changes in these plant-based diet quality and association with total and cost-specific mortality. Neat, huh? Dr. Greg Hundley: Yeah. I can't wait to hear about that one. I know that's a favorite topic of yours. How a