From Paris to St. Augustine: Global Cardiovascular Insights

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Welcome to the MedEvidence Monday Minute Radio Show hosted by Kevin Geddings of WSOS St. Augustine Radio. Each Monday morning, Dr. Michael Koren calls in to bring you the latest medical updates with insightful discussions. MedEvidence is where we help you navigate the real truth behind medical research, with both a clinical and research perspective. So sit back, relax and get ready to learn about the truth behind the data in medicine and healthcare. This is MedEvidence.

Kevin Geddings: 0:29

Excited to have Dr. Michael Koren with us, live on the studio line, live from Paris, rance. How about that, Dr. Koren?

Dr. Michael Koren: 0:37

Yes, I am. We are here in Paris. As most people know, the Olympics were here in Paris. We still see vestiges of that and in fact, the Paralympic Games are occurring in Paris as we speak. But I am actually here on business. I'm here at the European Society of Cardiology, which took place in London just completed actually yesterday and we're taking a little bit of a day trip to look at different cultures and often understand how culture influences cardiovascular health.

Kevin Geddings: 1:12

Yeah, so what have been? You know what are? Some casual observations that you see while you're enjoying some fine French cuisine, which may be a little high in butter, by the way.

Dr. Michael Koren: 1:21

Well, not as much as British cuisine. I must say. We just had a wonderful meal here at the Eiffel Tower. But one of my favorite jokes is the description of heaven versus hell, and what they say is that heaven is French cuisine, british police work and German engineering, and hell is British cuisine, german police work and French engineering.

Dr. Michael Koren: 1:51

Yeah, it's actually pretty funny and we have discovered some of that. But we just had an amazing meal here in Paris and we had some decent meals in Britain, but nothing close to what we enjoyed in Paris just now.

Kevin Geddings: 2:03

Yeah, yeah, so what about? You know what's being discussed, at least at the cardiology conference there in Europe.

Dr. Michael Koren: 2:10

So it's neat. The European Society of Cardiology has become the largest medical meeting in the world. Interestingly, the US used to be the place for the largest medical meetings and then after 9-11, they made it much more difficult for foreigners to get into the US. So sort of the center of gravity of sharing medical information changed to Europe and literally this is a meeting of probably about 30,000 people from all over the world. It's kind of funny actually I made this comment here at the meeting is that I run into people who I share cardiology insights with all the time and sometimes I see these people that are literally from all the world from colleagues from South Africa, from colleagues from India, colleagues from Europe, of course, and colleagues from the US. And because we all attend these international meetings, I'll see them two or three times a year and some of my friends down the block I. maybe see once a year.

Dr. Michael Koren: 3:06

It's kind of funny how the world works these days. It's a much smaller world than it used to be. But the neat thing is that they're amazing . presentations. One of the hallmarks of the meetings here is that they have settings where you kind of share information in a public square. So I actually gave two presentations while I was here that were all standing in a little room that was part of a conference center and literally people can walk by, start to listen in to what you're saying and then share their insights and it's sort of a common way of sharing information. So for the patients that may be listening, it's a really neat. Part of what we do is that we learn from you and once we learn from you, we actually share this information with people from all over the world. So it's really a neat experience and it's so important that people that do something in St Augustine or Northeast Florida actually have an impact on how people may think in places around the world.

Kevin Geddings: 4:04

Yeah, because that's exactly what's happening right. When you make these presentations in Europe, you're sharing results from clinical trials that people participate in right here in St. John's County.

Dr. Michael Koren: 4:15

Absolutely, absolutely, and although no one will know you by name, you're having an actually huge impact on people from around the world, because the physicians who I meet here will, in turn, take those insights and share them with their patient populations.

Kevin Geddings: 4:28

So if there was one headline that came out of the conference, what do you think it might be in terms of progress that we're making in that field?

Dr. Michael Koren: 4:37

Well, there are, of course, lots of headlines, but one of the things that was a particular level of interest for me is this concept of inflammation in cardiovascular disease. So we know we're doing a lot of work in lipid lowering and controlling blood pressure. I went to multiple sessions that addressed how we can lower blood pressure and treat cholesterol problems, including LP little a, in a better fashion, but this concept of treating inflammation directly was a little bit controversial, but something that's gaining traction. So, as we speak, there are studies that we're participating in where we're targeting inflammation and taking people that may have had a heart attack or stroke before and determining whether or not treating their inflammation will actually help them over the long term.

Kevin Geddings: 5:23

Interesting and I would imagine at this conference in Europe too. Dr. Koren, it was discussed. You know the ongoing issues with bad information in medicine, correct?

Dr. Michael Koren: 5:32

Oh, so interesting that you bring that up. So our MedEvidence platform is the way we talk about the truth behind the data. Of course, I showed that to dozens of people here at the conference. They were so. fascinated by it. They love the fact that we have this platform to share this medical information but also break down information in this unique way, which is we look at what we know about a particular topic, we look at what we don't know about a particular topic and we discuss how we're going to learn about the stuff we don't know. And people absolutely love that. So actually I have to say that that was, in some ways, most satisfying for the whole conference. For me was to see how people reacted to our med evidence platform, so we definitely could go look at that, give us their feedback. But the feedback I got from these really international medical experts was that they love the format. In fact, a number of them said they would volunteer to do podcasts with me so they could share the format with people in their communities.

Kevin Geddings: 6:27

Wow, that'd be cool. Well, very good. Well, it sounds like you've had Kevin a great conference and, of course, enjoying your time in Europe. We do hope that you travel back here to Northeast Florida safely, Dr. Koren.

Dr. Michael Koren: 6:39

I. much appreciate that and I with ENCORE Research Group doing that. Thank EncoreDocs.com you so much, kevin. All right.

Kevin Geddings: 6:43

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