Oxana Ovakimyan MD

One of these days, people will look back on these sports betting ads like we do on the ads for patent medicines featuring cocaine.

Can we talk about the flood of gambling ads that dominated the super bowl 🏈.
Gambling addiction is real, I am absolutely shocked at how aggressively pushing gambling is now a core component of major sports streaming on television.
It's both unethical and dangerous.

On this episode of Rox Heart Radio, Roxana Mehran and Michelle O'Donoghue reflect on what was big in the world of cardiology in 2025. Listen now: www.tctmd.com/audio/rox-he...

Kawasaki?

You called it!

Reduction of Antihypertensive Treatment in Nursing Home Residents | NEJM Among older adults with frailty, evidence on the benefits and risks of discontinuing antihypertensive drugs is limited. In a multicenter, randomized, controlled trial conducted in France, we assign...

Enough is enough:

RETREAT-FRAIL www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

OPTIMISE
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

DANTON
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No mortality benefit (and potentially harm) from antihypertensive deprescription among frail older adults. Meta-analyze that!

💡Takeaways:
✅PAD walking impairment is largely driven by microvascular dysfunction.

✅Improvements in microvascular function, not conduit artery revascularization, predict walking improvement.

✅New therapies should target the microvasculature as a key mechanism of recovery.

Rivaroxaban vs Warfarin in Acute Left Ventricular Thrombus Following Myocardial Infarction: RIVAWAR, An Open-Label RCT

Finally some good evidence for whether DOACs can be effective in treatment of left ventricular thrombus. Is this generalisable to all DOACs? #cardiosky #cccsky www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/...

#WeekendReads from the #AdvanceAccess

Renal Denervation: a State of the Art Review

🔗 academic.oup.com/ajh/advance-... 🔓

Currently on social media...
#MedSky

Predicting Alzheimer's in people who are cognitively unimpaired in middle-age via blood tests
p-tau217 did well (best single biomarker), its ratio with Aβ42 had highest performance for detecting PET + amyloid
new publication today
www.thelancet.com/journals/ebi...

Hating on “Big Pharma”? Cool, it’s a $1.6 trillion regulated industry. But hang on…the $6.3 trillion wellness industry sells you mushroom tea, dewormers, crash diets, and alkaline water—no regulations, no oversight. But hey, it’s ‘natural,’ right?

NIH Grants Fueled $95 Billion In FY 2024 Economic Activity, Finds New Report National Institutes of Health grants generated almost $95 billion in economic activity nationwide in FY 2024 according to a new report by United for Medical Research.

New report shows that NIH grants fueled $95 billion in economic activity and 407,782 jobs in 2024.

That's not to mention the countless lives that biomedical research has saved.

Show me a better investment than that.
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

Illegal dumping grounds off the New Jersey turnpike across from Manhattan in the 1970s

Smog rolling on over Manhattan in the 1970s

This is what many cities in the U.S. looked like before the EPA.

Why the heck would anyone celebrate deregulating it?

2016, 2020, 2024—and they still don’t realize they’re on the menu…

Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared. ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.

NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%.

https://propub.li/43487Tj

Historians Politely Remind Nation To Check What's Happened In Past Before Making Any Big Decisions

Historians Politely Remind Nation To Check What's Happened In Past Before Making Any Big Decisions
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I was sure Oz was going to be surgeon general… hire a clown, expect a circus

Its back! Ten current papers for the curious cardiologist, including BP targets in T2DM, spiro post MI, left atrial appendage occlusion, coronary sinus reducer for angina, device detected AF & tirzepatide in HFpEF #CardioSky

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