SMuRF-less: CV Prevention Beyond Traditional Risk Factors

The Bob Harrington Show

Drs Harrington, Rodriguez, and Ridker discuss the changing field of cardiac prevention, where imaging fits in, and the new concept of standard modifiable risk factor-less patients.

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Life's Essential 8: Updating and Enhancing the American Heart Association's Construct of Cardiovascular Health: A Presidential Advisory From the American Heart Association

https://doi.org/10.1161/CIR.0000000000001078

Development and Validation of the American Heart Association's PREVENT Equations

https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.123.067626

C-Reactive Protein and Cardiovascular Risk Among Women With No Standard Modifiable Risk Factors: Evaluating the 'Smurf-Less but Inflamed'

https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehaf658

Mortality in STEMI Patients Without Standard Modifiable Risk Factors: A Sex-Disaggregated Analysis of SWEDEHEART Registry Data

https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(21)00272-5

Inflammation, Cholesterol, Lipoprotein(a), and 30-Year Cardiovascular Outcomes in Women

https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa2405182

Statins for the 'SMuRFLess But Inflamed': Silent Vascular Inflammation and the Challenge of Translational Science

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacbts.2025.101318

VERVE-101: A Promising CRISPR-Based Gene Editing Therapy That Reduces LDL-C and PCSK9 Levels in HeFH Patients

https://academic.oup.com/ehjcvp/article/10/2/89/7492807

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