Countdown to 2021 American Heart Association Scientific Sessions

Preparations are underway for the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions. Held November 13-15, 2021 in Boston, MA, this three-day hybrid learning experience will include posters and oral abstracts from researchers, clinicians, and scientists.

A variety of work from the Section of Cardiovascular Medicine can be found below:

November 13

Non late-breaking abstracts will be available online Monday, November 8, 5:00 am ET.

• Characterizing Dual Combination Therapy Use In Treatment Escalation Of Hypertension: Real-world Evidence From Multinational Cohorts

Yuan Lu, Jing Li, Xialin Wang, Sreemanee Dorajoo, Mengling Feng, Min-Huei Hsu, Jason C. C Hsu, Jiyoung Hwang, Usman Iqbal, Zhengfeng J Chen, Jitendra Jonnagaddala, Yu-Chuan Yu-Chuan Li, Teng Liaw, Kee Yuan Ngiam, Phung-Anh Nguyen, Rae Woong Park, Nicole Pratt, Christian Reich, Sang Youl Rhee, Selva M Sathappan, Hui Xing Tan, Seng Chan You, Xin Zhang, Harlan M Krumholz, Marc Suchard, Yun Liu, Mui Van Zandt, Hua Xu

• National Trends and Disparities in Hospitalization for Hypertensive Emergencies Among Medicare Beneficiaries, 1999-2019

Yuan Lu, Yun Wang, Erica S Spatz, Oyere Kalu Onuma, Khurram Nasir, Fatima Rodriguez, Karol E Watson, Harlan M Krumholz

• Trends In Awareness, Use Of Medication, And Blood Pressure Control By Race And Ethnicity Among U.S. Adults With Hypertension: A 20-year National Health And Nutrition Examination Survey Analysis, 1999-201

Yuan Lu, Yuntian Liu, Lovedeep Dhingra, Daisy Massey, Cesar Caraballo, Shiwani Mahajan, Jeph Herrin, Harlan Krumholz

• Efficacy of Mavacamten in Patients with Symptomatic Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Sub-Group Analyses by Background Beta-Blocker Use from the EXPLORER-HCM and MAVA-LTE Studies

Daniel L Jacoby, Matthew T Wheeler, Perry Mark Elliott, Sara Saberi, Amy J Sehnert, Jay M Edelberg, Wanying Li, Iacopo Olivotto

• Financial Hardship From Medical Bills Among Non-Elderly Adults With Obesity in the US

Shiwani Mahajan, Javier Valero Elizondo, Rohan Khera, Mohamad Taha, Isaac Acquah, Miguel Cainzos Achirica, Harlan M Krumholz, Khurram Nasir

• Long-Term Outcomes and Cost for Impella Compared to Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump in Patients Presenting with Acute Myocardial Infarction Complicated by Cardiogenic Shock

Elliott Miller, Samantha G. Bromfield, Qinli Ma, Geoffrey Crawford, John Whitney, Andrea Devries, Nihar R Desai

• Racial and Gender Differences in Lifetime Healthcare Costs Across Cardiovascular Risk Factors

Rohan Khera, Mengni Liu, Nitin Kondamudi, Erica S Spatz, Colby Ayers, Tiffany Powell-wiley, Ethan A Halm, Ambarish Pandey

• Cost-Related Medication Nonadherence in Adults with Diabetes Mellitus in the United States

Mohamad Taha, Javier Valero Elizondo, Cesar Caraballo, Tamer Yahya, Rohan Khera, Priyanka Satish, Isaac Acquah, Kobina Hagan, Kershaw Patel, Elias Mossialos, Miguel Cainzos Achirica, Khurram Nasir

• Trends in Racial and Ethnic Differences in Adiposity and Association With All-Cause Mortality in Adults in the United States: A 20-year National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey Analysis, 1999-2018

Yuan Lu, Yuntian Liu, Cesar Caraballo, Daisy Massey, Shiwani Mahajan, Jeph Herrin, Harlan M Krumholz

• The Association Between Depression and Mortality and Amputation Outcomes in Patients With Peripheral Artery Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Lindsey E. Scierka, Zain V. Ahmed, Sameh Yousef, Ahmad Arham, Alyssa A. Grimshaw, Kristie Harris, Matthew Burg, Carlos Mena-Hurtado, Kim G Smolderen

• It's Not Always Atherosclerosis: Vascular Medicine Approach to Arteriopathy

Carlos Mena-Hurtado

• Racial Disparities in PAD

Carlos Mena-Hurtado

Jay D. Coffman Early Career Investigator Award Competition

• Long Term Quality of Life Improvement After Peripheral Vascular Intervention- Insights From the Liberty 360 Study

Mohsin Chowdhury, Kim G Smolderen, Carlos Mena-Hurtado, John Spertus, Robert W Yeh, Eric A Secemsky

• Ankle and Toe-Brachial Index for Peripheral Artery Disease Identification: Unlocking Clinical Data Through Novel Methods

Julia Friberg, Abdul H Qazi, Brenden Boyle, Carrie Franciscus, Mary Vaughan-Sarrazin, Dax Westerman, Olga V Patterson, Sharidan K Parr, Michael E Matheny, Shipra Arya, Kim G Smolderen, Brian Lund, Glenn T Gobbel, Saket Girotra

• National Trends and County-Level Patterns of Prescription for PCSK-9 Inhibitors Among Medicare Beneficiaries in the United States

Arash Aghajani Nargesi, Jonathan Hanna, Rohan Khera

• Natural Language Processing of Hospitalization Discharge Summary to Predict 1-year Post-Discharge Mortality Among Patients With Acute Heart Failure

Benjamin Rosand, Dragomir Radev, Harlan M Krumholz, Rohan Khera

• Integrating Data From Health Tech Devices/Tools Into Clinical Workflow

Rohan Khera

November 14

Finalist Robert Levy Memorial Lecture and Lifestyle and Cardiometabolic Health Early Career Investigator Award Competition

• Individualizing the Cardiovascular Benefits of Intensive Blood Pressure Reduction Using Computational Phenomaps of the SPRINT and ACCORD Trials

Evangelos K. Oikonomou, Marc Suchard, David Geffen, Rohan Khera

• Characteristics of Patients Referred to a Cardiovascular Disease Clinic for Post-Acute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 Infection

Stephen Y Wang, Philip Adejumo, Oyere K Onuma, Edward J Miller, Erica S Spatz

• Guideline Directed Medical Therapy After Peripheral Vascular Intervention and One-Year Mortality in Patients with Peripheral Artery Disease in the Vascular Quality Initiative Medicare Linked Database

Jeremy B Provance, Kim G Smolderen, Jialin Mao, Philip P Goodney, Peter Henke, Art Sedrakyan, Pragati Bogra, Carlos Mena-hurtado

• Estimation of DAPT Study Treatment Effects in Contemporary Clinical Practice: Findings from the EXTEND-DAPT Study

Neel M Butala, Kamil Faridi, Hector Tamez, Jordan B Strom, Yang Song, Changyu Shen, Eric A Secemsky, Laura Mauri, Dean J. Kereiakes, Jeptha P Curtis, Charles Michael Gibson, Robert W Yeh

• Illness Perception and the Impact of a Definitive Diagnosis on Women with Ischemia Without Obstructive Coronary Artery Disease: A Qualitative Study

Leslie Tseng, Samit Shah, Leslie Curry, Erica S Spatz

• Trends and Outcomes of Cardiac Transplantation in the Lowest Urgency Candidates

Michael Fuery, Fouad Chouairi, Peter Natov, Jasjit Bhinder, Maya Chiravuri, Lynn Wilson, Katherine Clark, Samuel Reinhardt, Clancy Mullan, Elliott Miller, Joseph G Rogers, Chetan Patel, Sounok Sen, Arnar Geirsson, Muhammad Anwer, Nihar R. Desai, Tariq Ahmad

• Risk Evaluation and Its Impact on Clinical Decision Making and Outcomes in Heart Failure: The REVeAL-HF Trial

Tariq Ahmad, Yu Yamamoto, Aditya Biswas, Lama Ghazi, Melissa Martin, Michael Simonov, Allen Hsiao, Nitu Kashyap, Eric Jose Velazquez, Nihar R. Desai, Francis Perry Wilson

November 15

• Individualizing Cardiovascular Benefits of Canagliflozin Based on Multidimensional Computational Phenomaps of the CANVAS Trials

Evangelos K. Oikonomou, Marc A Suchard, Darren K McGuire, Rohan Khera

• Physical Activity in Individuals With Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Baseline Data From the Prospective "Lifestyle and Exercise in Hcm" (live-hcm) Study

Rachel Lampert, Michael John Ackerman, Bradley S Marino, Matthew Burg, Barbara Ainsworth, Lisa Salberg, Seshadri Balaji II, Carolyn Ho, Richard J Czosek, Cynthia James, Michael Emery, Robert Cooper, Martijn Bos, Jeffrey B Geske, Lubna Choudhury, Susan P Etheridge, Ashwin K Lal, James Simon Ware, Anne M Dubin, Belinda Gray, Silvana M Molossi, Martin S Maron, Sara Saberi, Daniel L Jacoby, Benjamin W Eidem, Kim Harmon, Kevin Hall, Brian Olshansky, Mark S Link, Elizabeth V Saarel, N A Estes III, Barry Maron, David S Cannom, Fangyong Li, Kaylie Briske, Laura Simone, Cheryl Barth, Maryann Concannon, Sharlene Day

• Low Penetrance Sarcomere Variants Indicate an Additive Genetic Risk Model in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

Eric Smith, Brynn Elder, Gabriela Chen, Yao-chang Tsan, John Stendahl, Jodie Ingles, Victoria N Parikh, Samuel Wittekind, Steven Colan, Neal K Lakdawala, Anjali T Owens, Daniel L Jacoby, Sharlene Day, Christopher Semsarian, Iacopo Olivotto, Carolyn Ho, Mark W RUSSELL, Sara Saberi, James Simon Ware, Adam S Helms

• Mo4130. Heterogeneous Uptake of [99mTc]microspheres and 201Tl in Skeletal Muscles in Porcine Model of Hindlimb Ischemia

Supum Lee, Pedro Gil de Rubio Cruz, Stephanie Thorn, Zhao Liu, Christi Hawley, Marina Mamarian, Tymoteusz Turlejski, Ling Jian Meng, Chi Liu, Albert Sinusas

• Out-of-Pocket Health Spending and Subjective Financial Hardship in Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease and Heart Failure in the United States

Stephen Y Wang, Javier Valero Elizondo, Khurram Nasir, Rohan Khera

• ECG-DualNet: A MultiLabel Model for Automated Diagnosis on Both Electrocardiographic Signals and Printed 12-lead Electrocardiograms

Veer Sangha, Rohan Khera

• Biased Algorithms: Is AI Perpetuating Biases?

Rohan Khera

• Future Direction on Integration of Evidence-based Practice and Health-informatics to Achieve Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes

Rohan Khera

• QCOR at Sessions: Circ:CQO Journal Editorial Board - Reviewer Process

Rohan Khera

Special Program: Quality of Care and Outcomes Research Scientific Sessions

The Quality of Care and Outcomes Research Meeting (QCOR) will also be held on Monday, November 15 in conjunction with AHA Scientific Sessions 2021. Session details are to be announced.

• Predicting In-Hospital Mortality Among Patients Hospitalized With Heart Failure Using a Convolutional Neural Network and Transfer Learning on a Single Admission Chest X-Ray

David Hidalgo-Goto, Rohan Khera

• Prescribing Patterns of Cardioprotective Antihyperglycemics Among Medicare Beneficiaries Across United States Counties by their Socioeconomic Disadvantageousness

Jonathan Hanna, Rohan Khera

• Depression and Anxiety Disorders in Peripheral Artery Disease Admissions: Associations With Post-Revascularization Amputation and Resource Utilization

Kristie M. Harris, Carlos Mena-Hurtado, Matthew M. Burg, Kim G. Smolderen

• Access to Care among Hispanic Patients Hospitalized for Lower Extremity Peripheral Artery Disease

Kristie M. Harris, Paulina Luna, Yulanka Castro-Dominguez, Carolina Severiche-Mena, Kim G. Smolderen, Carlos Mena-Hurtado

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