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• AI-Enabled Clinician: Closing the Gap in Women’s Cardiovascular Care
  In this episode, Dr. Laxmi Mehta joins Dr. Ami Bhatt to address persistent gaps in women’s cardiovascular care, from underrecognized risk factors to barriers in post-event follow-up.
• On-Duty Firefighter Cardiac Deaths Highlight Potential Screening Gaps
  Cardiac death remains a substantial contributor to on-duty mortality of U.S. firefighters, and drivers of this trend may not be well identified by the current screening approaches, according to a brief report published Oct. 21 in JACC: Advances.
• Long-Term Outcomes, Emerging Etiologies in Idiopathic Ventricular Fibrillation
  Survivors of idiopathic ventricular fibrillation (IVF) had a low rate of cardiac mortality despite a persistent risk of arrhythmia recurrence over time, according to research presented at the Ventricular Arrhythmias Symposium 2026 and simultaneously published Oct. 10 in JACC: Clinical Electrophysiology.
• Sex Differences in HFimpEF Prevalence, Outcomes
  Heart failure with improved ejection fraction (HFimpEF) was associated with better outcomes than persistent heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) in both women and men, according to research published Oct. 15 in JACC: Heart Failure.
• Prevention and Geriatric Trials at ESC 2026: Clinical Implications
  Cardiovascular aging reflects the cumulative burden of decades of hypertension, dyslipidemia, inflammation, and subclinical atherosclerosis, processes that may be modified before overt disease develops.