Myocarditis and the COVID vaccine, lipid lowering guidelines, financial toxicity, and deprescribing statins are the topics covered by John Mandrola, MD, in this week’s podcast. https://www.medscape.com/twic 1 – COVID Varied COVID Vaccination Rates May Lead to 'Two Americas' https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/953658 Nearly All COVID Deaths in US Are Now Among Unvaccinated https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/953703 2 - COVID Vaccine Myocarditis FDA to Add Myocarditis Warning to mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/953647 3 – Lipid Guidelines Clinicians Slow to Implement Lipid-Lowering Guidelines: GOULD Registry https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/953688 - Use of Lipid-Lowering Therapies Over 2 Years in GOULD, a Registry of Patients With Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease in the US https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/fullarticle/2780713 4 - Financial Toxicity Financial Burden Higher With CVD Than Cancer https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/953687 - Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease, Cancer, and Financial Toxicity Among Adults in the United States https://www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.jaccao.2021.02.006 5 - Deprescribing Statins Stopping Statins Linked to Death, CV Events in Elderly https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/953545 - Cardiovascular Outcomes and Mortality Associated With Discontinuing Statins in Older Patients Receiving Polypharmacy https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2780952 - Effect of rosuvastatin in patients with chronic heart failure (the GISSI-HF trial): a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(08)61240-4/fulltext - Rosuvastatin in Older Patients with Systolic Heart Failure https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa0706201 You may also like: Medscape editor-in-chief Eric Topol, MD, and master storyteller and clinician Abraham Verghese, MD, on Medicine and the Machine https://www.medscape.com/features/public/machine The Bob Harrington Show with Stanford University Chair of Medicine, Robert A. Harrington, MD. https://www.medscape.com/author/bob-harrington Questions or feedback, please contact [email protected]