Members of the ACC Sports and Exercise Cardiology Section Leadership Council offer a closer look at common exercise-induced cardiovascular adaptations and review the importance of a shared decision-making approach to caring for athletes, in a new state-of-the-art review paper published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

Obesity is a heterogeneous condition and the prevalence is increasing globally, according to a review published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. As part of managing obesity, attention should be given to two main subgroups: overweight or moderately obese patients with an excess of visceral adipose tissue (VAT) and severely obese patients.

After type 2 myocardial infarction (T2MI) and myocardial injury, cardiovascular death was often linked to heart failure, stroke and vascular disease, according to a study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

In pursuit of a career in clinical cardiac electrophysiology (EP), women are more likely to withdraw than their male colleagues due to radiation concerns, interest in another field, lack of female role models, a perceived "old boys' club" culture, and concerns about discrimination and harassment, according to results of an ACC survey published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Adequately addressing these factors could help close the gender gap in the EP field.

Intravenous metoprolol therapy may safely reduce lung inflammation and improve oxygenation for COVID-19 patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), according to results of the MADRID-COVID pilot trial published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

While compression-only cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CO-CPR) was the most common type of bystander CPR in pediatric out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), cardiopulmonary resuscitation with rescue breathing (RB-CPR) should continue to be the preferred CPR method for pediatric OHCA, according to a study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.