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• Exercise in Aortopathy: How Should We Counsel Our Patients?
  The biomechanics of physical exercise can impose acute hemodynamic stresses on the cardiovascular system. With regular intense exercise, the cardiac chambers may remodel in a manner that is often described as the "athlete's heart."
• County-Level Disparities in Premature Cardiac Death
  What is the magnitude of disparities across US counties in premature cardiac death (PCD) rates and county‐level factors related to the disparities?
• Outcomes of Valve-in-Valve Transcatheter Mitral Valve Replacement
  David S. Bach, MD, FACC
• Deep Vein Thrombosis in Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients
  What is the risk of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) among patients hospitalized with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)?
• Practice Made Perfect: Advocacy (Part 1)
  In this episode, Alison Bailey hosts Sandra Lewis, Thad Waites, and Sam Jones in a discussion about advocacy and why it is important, especially during this time of COVID-19.
• BMI and Risk for Intubation or Death in SARS-CoV-2
  In patients who are hospitalized with a diagnosis of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), how does obesity affect risk of death, respiratory failure requiring intubation, or elevation of biomarkers indicating inflammation, myocardial injury, and fibrinolysis?
• Medscape and ACC Centers of Excellence
  The ACC has collaborated with Medscape to create two Centers of Excellence on the topics of Cardiovascular Risk Reduction and Heart Failure.
• ACC Advocates for Practice Stability, PPE and Reliable Testing During Latest COVID-19 Relief Negotiations
  As members of Congress continue negotiations over the fourth COVID-19 relief package, the ACC is advocating for a variety of important policies to support cardiovascular clinicians, their patients, and the entire health care system.
• Role of Cardiac MRI and PET in Predicting Ventricular Arrhythmias
  Are cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-assessed scar burden and cardiac function and positron emission tomography (PET)-assessed myocardial perfusion and sympathetic innervation predictors of ventricular arrhythmias (VA) in patients with an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) for ischemic cardiomyopathy?
• Postmarketing Safety of Vaccines Approved by FDA
  What is the prevalence of postmarketing safety modifications for US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved vaccines?