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Last Posted: Sep 19, 2023
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Association of Longer Leukocyte Telomere Length With Cardiac Size, Function, and Heart Failure
N Aung et al, JAMA Cardiology, July 26, 2023

Is leukocyte telomere length (LTL) associated with alterations in cardiovascular structure and function? In this cross-sectional study including 40 459 UK Biobank participants, longer LTL was associated with higher left ventricular mass, larger ventricular and atrial sizes, and higher stroke volumes. Mendelian randomization analysis demonstrated a potential causal genetic association between LTL and left ventricular mass, ventricular size, and left ventricular stroke volume, and longer LTL was associated with a lower risk of incident heart failure after accounting for potential confounders.

Lipid Disorders in Children and Adolescents: Screening
USPSTF recommendation, July 18, 2023

Familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) and multifactorial dyslipidemia are 2 conditions that cause abnormally high lipid levels in children, which can lead to premature cardiovascular events (eg, myocardial infarction and stroke) and death in adulthood. The prevalence of FH in US children and adolescents ranges from 0.2% to 0.4% (1 of every 250 to 500 children and adolescents). Multifactorial dyslipidemia is much more common than FH, with prevalence in children and adolescents ranging from 7.1% to 9.4%. The USPSTF concludes that the current evidence is insufficient to assess the balance of benefits and harms of screening for lipid disorders in children and adolescents 20 years or younger.

Assessing statins use in a real-world primary care digital strategy: a cross-sectional analysis of a population-wide digital health approach
MJM Carrion et al, Lancet Regional Health, June 22, 2023

The digitization of the primary care system provides an opportunity to evaluate the current use of statins in secondary prevention populations (myocardial infarction or stroke). We conducted a cross-sectional study analysing anonymised data routinely collected by community health workers (CHW) between May 2016 and September 2021 to assess the proportion of self-reported statins use and associated factors. The analysis of a real-world database from a digitized primary care system, allowed us to identify a very low use of statins in secondary prevention patients, mostly influenced by socio-demographic factors and co-morbidities.

BA.1 Bivalent COVID-19 Vaccine Use and Stroke in England.
Nick Andrews et al. JAMA 2023 6

This analysis showed no evidence of an increased risk of stroke in the 21 days immediately after vaccination with either of the 2 mRNA COVID-19 bivalent BA.1 vaccines in England, with similar results for ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke and for the subset aged 65 years and older given influenza vaccine on the same day as the bivalent COVID-19 vaccine. For ischemic stroke, the upper bounds of CIs for the RI were all below the point estimate of a relative risk of 1.47.

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