Circulation On The Run

Carolyn: Welcome to circulation on the run, your weekly podcast summary and backstage pass to the journal and its editors. I'm Dr. [Carolyn Nam 00:00:08], associate editor from the national heart center and Duke National University of Singapore ...     In just a moment we will be discussing the exciting new results of the [Prague 00:00:21] 18 study of prasugrel versus ticagrelor in patients with acute myocardial infarction treated with primary or cutaneous coronary intervention. But first, here's your summary of this week's issue ...     The first study represents the largest published study on the association between PR interval and cardiac resynchronization therapy with defibrillator versus implantable cardioverter defibrillator and real world outcomes. Dr. Friedman and colleagues from Duke Clinical Research Institute studied 26,451 CRT eligible patients from the National Cardiovascular Data Registry ICD Registry. They found that a PR interval at or above 230 milliseconds was associated with increased rates