Notes from Dr. RW

  A few key points from the 2023 atrial fibrillation guidelines American College of Cardiology New classification:  The old classification ...

  From Joseph S.Alpert .

From the Annals : Recommendation 1: ACP recommends that clinicians prescribe metformin to patients with ty...

Free full text available . The document is worth reading in its entirety, but there were a few points I found particu...

According to this Kevin MD post we'll all suffer if it becomes marginalized anymore than it already is . I've n...

Though not in those exact words .

--- and teams up with AAFP . In short, the target is systolic below 150, and consider below 140 if high cardiovascul...

This was recently published in JACC . It applies to heart failure stage C class II and III. It calls for substitution of AR...

This go round the update is being handled a bit differently it would seem, by releasing one section at a time.  As of now only the section o...

This has already been the subject of numerous social media posts since the guidelines were released in November.  Here I...