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. And Dr. Carolyn Lam, Associate Editor from the National Heart Center, and Duke National University at Singapore.                                 What is the effect of obesity and underweight status on perioperative outcomes of congenital heart operations?                                 Our feature paper this week sheds light from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Database. More soon, right after these summaries.                                 The first original paper highlights the role of micro RNAs in metabolic remodeling and heart failure. As a reminder, micro RNAs are small, noncoding RNAs important in post transcriptional modification and influencing many cellular processes simultaneously.                                 First author, Dr. Heggermont, corresponding author, Dr. Heymans, and colleagues from Maastricht University in the Netherlands use mice subjected to p