JACC This Week Bonus Episode – Women’s Cardiovascular Health: From Inclusion to Redesign
Release Date: 02/17/2026
February 24, 2026: ACHD Guideline in Focus—From Survival to Stewardship | JACC This Week
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In this episode of JACC This Week, Dr. Carolyn Lam and Dr. Harlan Krumholz spotlight the 2025 Adult Congenital Heart Disease (ACHD) Guidelines and explore what they signal for the future of cardiovascular care. Framed by Dr. Krumholz’s Editor’s Page, “From Survival to Stewardship,” this discussion highlights a broader transformation in cardiology: advances that once turned fatal conditions into survivable ones now demand lifelong, structured, and hyper-specialized care. The conversation examines how ACHD exemplifies the shift from episodic survival to coordinated stewardship—where...
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JACC This Week Bonus Episode – Women’s Cardiovascular Health: From Inclusion to Redesign
JACC This Week
This bonus episode continues the conversation from the JACC Women’s Cardiovascular Health Issue, moving from science to systems. In this extended discussion, Drs. Carolyn Lam and Harlan Krumholz are joined by Sarah Krumholz to reflect on how the culture and structure of cardiology shape the experiences of women in training and practice.
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February 17, 2026: Women’s Cardiovascular Health in Focus: From Inclusion to Redesign | JACC This Week
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In this episode of JACC This Week, Dr. Carolyn Lam and Dr. Harlan Krumholz explore the JACC Women’s Cardiovascular Health Issue—an edition dedicated to advancing science, care, and professional culture for women in cardiology. The discussion spans original research and viewpoints addressing menopause and cardio-oncology risk, sex differences in dilated cardiomyopathy, device trials, rehabilitation after heart failure, global disparities, and the intersection of sex, race, and socioeconomic status in cardiovascular outcomes. Beyond inclusion, this episode highlights a deeper challenge:...
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February 10, 2026: Amyloidosis in Focus: Diagnosis Delays, Early Treatment, and What Clinicians Must Know | JACC This Week
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In this episode of JACC This Week, Dr. Harlan M. Krumholz and Dr. Carolyn S.P. Lam discuss a dedicated issue of JACC focused on cardiac amyloidosis—one of the fastest-evolving areas in cardiovascular medicine. They explore new evidence highlighting significant delays in diagnosing ATTR cardiomyopathy, the early divergence of mortality benefit with timely treatment, and why time to diagnosis is no longer a neutral factor. The conversation also examines secondary analyses from major clinical trials, practical guidance for amyloidosis evaluation and management, and Dr. Krumholz’s Editor’s...
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February 3, 2026: A New Season of JACC This Week: Valve Disease, Editorial Vision, and Engaging the Global Cardiology Community | JACC This Week
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Welcome to the new season of JACC This Week! In this episode, Editor-in-Chief Dr. Harlan Krumholz is joined by co-host Dr. Carolyn Lam to kick off a refreshed, more conversational era of the podcast. Together, they reflect on the evolution of the show, approach to thematic curation, and introduce the February 3 issue of JACC, curated around valve heart disease. The discussion explores JACC’s approach to thematic issues, the importance of timely publication, and how emerging evidence is shifting valvular heart disease management toward lifetime decision-making and patient-centered outcomes....
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December 2, 2025: Global CVD 1990–2023: Trends, Risks, and the Road Ahead | JACC This Week
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In the December 2, 2025 episode of JACC This Week, Editor-in-Chief Harlan M. Krumholz, MD, SM, introduces the Spotlight Issue, anchored by the manuscript “.” Listen here as he reviews the issue and gives listeners perspective on the issue as a whole, which contains 19 viewpoints providing perspectives from experts around the world, plus his , aligned with a talk given at the UN with JACC Editor Emeritus Valentin Fuster, MD, and author Gregory A. Roth, MD. Other perspectives include: ; ; confronting ; and perspectives from , , the , , , and many others. Listen to the podcast and then...
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November 25, 2025: Clonal Hematopoiesis, Alcohol and Blood Pressure, Long-Term Risk, and Emerging Biomarkers | JACC This Week
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JACC’s November 25, 2025 issue kicks off Thanksgiving week with JACC Editor-in-Chief Harlan M. Krumholz, MD, SM, reflecting on his editor’s page and (0:12). For original research articles, he discusses a study on (1:10), and a with more perspectives and a reminder of the upcoming COLCOT trial (4:33). Next, a study on (4:54) and (6:12), (6:30), and an from JACC Deputy Editor Erica Spatz, MD, on next-generation strategies to encourage healthier behaviors (7:35). Other studies and editorials include a fascinating look at (8:04) and (10:05); (10:38) and (12:36). We also...
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November 18, 2025: Adiposity, Heart Failure, and the Future of Cardiometabolic Care | JACC This Week
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In the November 18, 2025 issue of JACC, Editor-in-Chief Harlan M. Krumholz, MD, SM, FACC, uses his editor's page to reflect on the evolving role of editors as partners with authors in strengthening cardiovascular science. The issue itself centers on adiposity, featuring multiple pooled analyses showing that waist-to-height ratio and waist circumference outperform BMI in predicting heart failure and mortality risk. Other highlights include a meta-analysis confirming GLP-1 receptor agonists’ broad cardiovascular benefits, new insights into obesity’s impact on biomarkers and disease...
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November 11, 2025: Precision, Place, and the Future of Cardiovascular Prediction | JACC This Week
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In this week’s JACC podcast, Editor-in-Chief Dr. Harlan Krumholz explores how context, precision, and physiology converge to shape modern cardiovascular care. He opens with an editorial on “The Geography Gap,” challenging the one-size-fits-all approach to cardiovascular risk models that ignore geographic variation in disease outcomes. Other featured studies in this issue include trials (OCEAN Mitral, PULSE), optimizing outcomes after transcatheter mitral repair, plus uncovering genetic links between placental malperfusion and congenital heart disease, evaluating CT angiography follow-up...
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November 4, 2025: The 2025 Hypertension Guideline: A New Era in Blood Pressure Control | JACC This Week
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In this special episode of JACC This Week, Editor-in-Chief Dr. Harlan Krumholz introduces the November 4, 2025 issue, entirely devoted to hypertension and the landmark 2025 HAC Multi-Society High Blood Pressure Guideline. He discusses key updates—from reaffirming lower blood pressure targets and expanding out-of-office monitoring to integrating hypertension within the cardio-kidney-metabolic framework. Dr. Krumholz highlights expert commentaries covering policy, technology, therapeutics, and prevention, emphasizing how this forward-looking issue aims to move beyond publication toward true...
info_outlineThis bonus episode continues the conversation from the JACC Women’s Cardiovascular Health Issue, moving from science to systems. In this extended discussion, Drs. Carolyn Lam and Harlan Krumholz are joined by Sarah Krumholz to reflect on how the culture and structure of cardiology shape the experiences of women in training and practice.