Circulation On The Run

Dr Carolyn Lam:                Welcome to Circulation on The Run, your weekly podcast summary and backstage pass to the journal and it's editors. I'm Dr Carolyn Lam, Associate Editor from the National Heart Center and Duke National University of Singapore. We will be discussing accelerated diagnostic protocols for chest pain, a very, very important issue in Cardiology with very important new safety and effectiveness data on one such protocol provided in our feature paper this week. Coming right up after these summaries.                                                 Our first original paper this week identifies a new link between specific gut bacteria and atherosclerosis. Co-First authors, Dr Yoshida and Emoto, corresponding author, Dr Yamashita, from Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, and colleagues recruited patients with coronary artery disease and controls without coronary artery disease but with coronary risk factors. They then compared gut microbial composition using 16S ribosomal RNA gene s