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Is Obesity Management Crucial for Ablation Success?
Author(s): Kyaw Z Win , Matthew J Armstrong , Richard P Steeds , et al Added: 8 months ago

Electrophysiology & Arrhythmia
AER Article Spotlight: Obesity Management Before AF Ablation
Author(s): Kyaw Z Win Added: 7 months ago
In this short interview, Dr Kyaw Zaw Win discusses the importance of his recently published article, “The Management of Obesity Before Catheter Ablation of AF: The Missing Piece?” View more

Cardiovascular Renal Metabolic
EAST-AFNET 4: Early Rhythm Control Effective in AF Patients with Obesity and Diabetes
Added: 6 months ago Source:  Radcliffe CVRM
A prespecified secondary analysis of the EAST-AFNET 4 trial has found that the benefits of an early rhythm control strategy for patients with recently diagnosed atrial fibrillation (AF) are maintained regardless of whether patients have obesity or diabetes.¹ These findings suggest that clinicians should not withhold this therapeutic approach based on these common metabolic comorbidities.The… View more

Cardiovascular Renal Metabolic

Electrophysiology & Arrhythmia
Angela Fitch
Job title: Chief Medical Officer and Co-Founder of knownwell
Dr Angela Fitch, MD, FACP, MFOMA is the past president of the Obesity Medicine Association. She practiced primary care for 10 years before becoming a diplomate of the American Board of Obesity Medicine in 2012. She is currently the Chief Medical Officer and Co-Founder of knownwell, a comprehensive longitudinal obesity treatment and primary care clinic focused on delivering unbiased non… View more
Job title: Director of the Obesity, Metabolism & Nutrition Institute
Dr Lee Kaplan is Director of the Obesity, Metabolism & Nutrition Institute, founding director of the Weight Center at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr Kaplan's clinical expertise is in the areas of obesity medicine, gastroenterology and liver disease. The author of more than 150 medical and scientific papers, he has a special… View more
Job title: Professor, Obesity and Stress Hormone Research
Prof Liesbeth van Rossum, MD PhD, is internist-endocrinologist and professor in the field of obesity and stress hormone research at the Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Sheis also co-founder of the Obesity Center CGG, an internationally recognised academic centre of obesity management.Prof Van Rossum holds various societal and board positions, amongst the European lead… View more
HRS 25: The TRANSFORM-AF Study
Author(s): Varun Sundaram Added: 9 months ago
HRS 25 - TRANSFORM-AF shows patients with atrial fibrillation and obesity treated with a GLP-1 RA experienced a reduction in atrial fibrillation (AF)-related events.We are joined by Dr Varun Sundaram (Case Western Reserve University, US) to discuss the findings from the TRANSFORM-AF Study, which aimed to determine whether GLP-1 RAs could reduce the burden of AF in patients with both AF and… View more

Cardiovascular Renal Metabolic

Electrophysiology & Arrhythmia
Job title: Chief Medical Officer
Dr Lydia Alexander is Chief Medical Officer at Enara Health in San Mateo, California. Dr Alexander earned her medical degree at the UC Davis School of Medicine,Sacramento, California; then completed an internal medicine residency at Kaiser Permanente, followed by a chief residency at Kaiser Hospital, both in California. She is trained as a culinary medicine specialist from Tulane University, New… View more
Job title: Advocate for Obesity; EPCO Secretary
Susie Birney lives with a food disorder called ARFID; she understands that there is not only one cause for obesity and not one treatment which will always work. Type 2 Diabetes and other co-morbidities have been health barriers for her since her 30’s. Since 2016, Susie has been a patient representative with the ASOI and an Irish representative with ECPO. This led to the start of creating a… View more
Job title: Medical Director and President
Dr Harold Bays is Medical Director and President of the Louisville Metabolic and Atherosclerosis Research Center, US. He has served as a Principal Investigator for over 600 clinical trials of metabolic therapeutic interventions.Dr Bays is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Endocrinology and Metabolism, Diplomate of the American Board of Obesity Medicine, and a Diplomate of the American… View more