The VENTOUX study of endurance athletes, the 10,000 step myth was not busted, rate vs rhythm control for AF, and GLP1 drugs and observational studies are the topics John Mandrola, MD, discusses in this week’s podcast.

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I Endurance Athletes and Arrhythmia (again)

• VENTOUX trial

https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.125.018470

II Daily Step Count and Health — no myths were busted.

• Lancet Public Health: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(25)00164-1

III Rate vs Rhythm Control of AF

Medscape: Everyone Deserves a Shot at the American Dream: Sinus Rhythm

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/everyone-deserves-shot-american-dream-sinus-rhythm-2025a1000jle

• This Week in Cardiology, July 11, 2025 https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/1002704
• AFFIRM trial https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa021328
• AFFIRM substudy https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/486560

IV GLP-1 Drugs and Observational Studies

• Neurodegeneration and Stroke After Semaglutide and Tirzepatide

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2836412

• SUSTAIN-6 https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1607141
• SELECT Trial https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2307563

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