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. Our feature paper today focuses on LDL cholesterol results from non-fasting samples and a personalized novel method of LDL cholesterol estimation that you will surely want to know about. So stay tuned, coming up right after these summaries.                                                 The first paper provides new evidence that RUNX1, a gene intensively studied in the cancer and blood research fields, has a critical role in cardiomyocytes following myocardial infarction. Co-first authors, Dr. McCarroll and He, corresponding author Doctor Loughrey and colleagues from University of Glasgow generated a novel tamoxifen-inducible cardiomyocyte-specific RUNX1-deficient mouse and showed that RUNX1-deficient mice were protected against adverse cardiac remodeling