Episode 174: The Road to a Healthy Heart – Part 2

The EMJ Podcast: Insights For Healthcare Professionals

Nov 9 2023 • 27 mins

Join Jonathan as he welcomes back Greg Marcus, Endowed Professor of Atrial Fibrillation, and Professor of Residence (Medicine) at the University of California, San Francisco, USA. They discuss how ethnicities need to be researched with regard to atrial fibrillation, including how adverse outcomes differ depending on an individual’s ethnicity. They also talk about digital health, and how AI devices encourage people to become more aware of their own health.

Use the following timestamps to navigate the content in this episode:

(00:00)-Introduction

(00:37)-The economics of cardiac disease prevention and cardiac devices

(05:00)-Genetic risk across ethnic groups

(07:54)-Atrial fibrillation detected by smart watches

(12:05)-AI in cardiology

(12:49)-A new energy for common catheter ablation

(15:14)-Personalised medicine

(16:53)-Advice for young cardiologists

(20:59)-Three wishes for the future of healthcare