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Changes to the Standards of Care in Diabetes—2025

Learn about the 2025 ADA Standards of Care in Diabetes, the latest clinical practice standards for diagnosing and providing care to people with diabetes.

What’s New in the 2024 ADA Standards of Care?

Learn about the latest clinical practice standards to diagnose and manage diabetes in the American Diabetes Association’s Standards of Care in Diabetes—2024.

QI.PI Project Grant Recipient Develops Digital Biomarker For PAD Screening

A quick, noninvasive toe-based light measurement combined with artificial intelligence demonstrated efficacy in screening for peripheral artery disease (PAD), according to a recent study published in npj Digital Medicine by a 2024 recipient of an ACC Accreditation Services' QI.PI Project Grant.

Racial and Sex Disparities in M-TEER Outcomes | NCDR Study

Black patients undergoing mitral transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (M-TEER) were more likely to present with more advanced disease, had lower procedural success and higher heart failure (HF) readmission rates vs. White patients, and female patients had lower procedural success rates vs. male patients...

ACC CardiaCast: Clinic Ready: Strategies for Seamless Remote Monitoring Implementation

This episode is part of ACC’s ongoing initiative to advance education on remote hemodynamic monitoring in heart failure management.

Poll: Brainstorm: Restarting Anticoagulation After Brain Bleed

An 80-year-old man presents for a cardiovascular follow-up after a prolonged hospitalization in the setting of an intracerebral hemorrhage. His medical history is relevant for atrial fibrillation, stage 3b chronic kidney disease, heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, hypertension, myocardial infarction 10 years ago, and type 2 diabetes mellitus.

EWAS Identifies Associations Between DNA Methylation, Atherosclerosis

An epigenome-wide association study (EWAS) identified a large number of associations between DNA methylation and carotid, coronary and peripheral atherosclerosis, with >90% of sites traceable to the epigenetic signatures of cardiovascular risk factors, predominantly smoking, according to research published June 3 in JACC.

ACC CardiaCast: Diagnosing PSVT

This episode is part of ACC’s ongoing effort to improve recognition and diagnosis of arrhythmias in clinical practice. In this CardiaCast, faculty explore a modern approach to identifying paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia (PSVT), with a focus on real-world diagnostic challenges.

Incorrect Specialty Classifications Identified in ASM Participant List

An ACC analysis of the preliminary participant list for the Ambulatory Specialty Model (ASM) for Heart Failure found that up to 20% of selected cardiologists may be incorrectly classified under the specialty cardiovascular disease/cardiology.

AI-Enabled Clinician: Navigating Large Language Models in Cardiology

In this episode, Chief Innovation Officer Dr. Ami Bhatt and Dr. Ankeet Bhatt explore the impact of large language models (LLM) on cardiovascular care today.

ACCEL Lite: Key Take-Home Messages From the 2025 Sports Cardiology Guidelines

In this interview, Alison L. Bailey, MD, FACC and Aaron Baggish, MD, FACC examine the latest sports cardiology guidelines.

First-Ever Guideline Addresses CKM Syndrome

The new 2026 AHA/ACC/ADA/ASN Guideline for the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Management of Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic (CKM) Syndrome is the first ever to address the "interrelated condition characterized by the interconnections among metabolic risk factors (including obesity and type 2 diabetes)...

Eagle’s Eye View: Impact of Semaglutide And Survival Outcomes In Patients With T2D and CKD

In this week’s View, Dr. Eagle highlights several noteworthy developments shaping cardiovascular and renal care.

SOGALDI-PEF: Baseline Renin Levels Predict BP Treatment Effect

Patients with low plasma renin levels had a more pronounced blood pressure (BP) reduction with spironolactone/dapagliflozin vs. dapagliflozin alone, in addition to seeing a more favorable impact on cardiovascular structure and function, while aldosterone levels exhibited no predictive value in treatment response...

Follow-Up of FAVOR III Suggests QFR-Guided PCI Improves 5-Year Outcomes

When compared with angiography guidance, quantitative flow ratio (QFR)-guided PCI improved five-year clinical outcomes with benefits primarily achieved in the first two years, according to a follow-up study of the multicenter, sham-controlled FAVOR III trial published June 10 in JACC.

Follow-Up of CENTRAL, DIRECT-PLUS Suggests Visceral Fat Reduction Has Lasting Metabolic Health Benefits

A long-term follow-up of the CENTRAL and DIRECT-PLUS trials published in Circulation suggests that despite long-term weight regain, visceral fat reduction during lifestyle intervention is associated with sustained improvements in metabolic health.

CLASP IID: Residual MR and Gradient at 1 Year Post M-TEER

Patients who underwent mitral transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (M-TEER) with an optimal result were more likely to have improved hemodynamics and less likely to experience major adverse events, all-cause mortality, heart failure (HF) hospitalization or reintervention at one year...

ACC CardiaCast: The Power of the Care Team

This episode provides a team-based overview of diagnosing and managing acute paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia (PSVT) across care settings.