Circulation On The Run

  Carolyn: 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. I am so pleased to be joined this week by Dr. Judd Hollander and Dr. Deborah Diercks to discuss a problem that all of us, as cardiologists and emergency department physicians will recognize. This is a feature paper on the state of the art approach to the patient presenting to the emergency department with symptoms and signs suggestive of an acute coronary syndrome, but first here are the highlights of this weeks issue.     The first study is from first author's Dr. Wing and Dr. August from Grand Valley State University in Michigan who investigated whether social and physical neighborhood characteristics are related to progression of sub clinical atherosclerosis measured by coronary artery calcium. They studied this in almost six thousand adult participants of Mesa, a multi-et