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. This week's journal features important information, that will aide identification of children with latent rheumatic heart disease, who are at highest risk of unfavorable outcomes. This important discussion is coming right up after these summaries.                                                 The first original paper this week describes the largest study to date to examine payer approvals and rejections of PCSK9 inhibitor therapy, and describe the patient characteristics associated with successful prescribing. First author, Dr. Hess, corresponding author Dr. Yeh and colleagues from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts, performed a retrospective descriptive cohort study utilizing nationwide pharmacy claims linked to electronic me