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• JACC Journals Science at ESC Heart Failure Congress 2026
  Findings from several studies presented at ESC Heart Failure Congress 2026 in Barcelona, Spain, were simultaneously published in JACC and JACC: Heart Failure, covering topics like arrhythmic burden in cardiac amyloidosis (CA), stroke and bleeding risk in CA...
• Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing in Congenital Heart Disease: From Pediatric Through Adult
  Cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) is a noninvasive tool providing information on the interactions between the cardiovascular (CV), pulmonary, and skeletal muscle systems as well as total body metabolic response to exercise.
• ACCEL Lite: Inflammation in CVD: A 2025 ACC Scientific Statement
  Inflammation has emerged as a critical contributor to the pathogenesis and clinical outcomes of cardiovascular disease (CVD), with growing evidence highlighting the prognostic relevance of residual inflammatory risk.
• Study Provides Evidence For Incorporating CMR and NT-proBNP Into HCM Risk Evaluation
  Results from a prospective study using data from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute’s Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM) Registry provide important evidence in support of incorporating cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging and NT-proBNP into the evaluation of risk in patients with HCM.
• 4 Action Items to Advance the Field of Obesity Medications
  Key action items to advance the field of obesity medications, developed at the Duke Clinical Research Institute's "Anti-Obesity Pharmacotherapy: An Urgent Need for Guidance, Access, and Equity" think tank, were recently published in JACC: Advances.