{"id":1422,"date":"2010-02-02T17:25:28","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T22:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/tuesday-february-2-news-roundup-salt-defended-laser-lead-extractions-af-ablation-live-on-tv\/"},"modified":"2011-07-19T17:45:04","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T21:45:04","slug":"tuesday-february-2-news-roundup-salt-defended-laser-lead-extractions-af-ablation-live-on-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2010\/02\/02\/tuesday-february-2-news-roundup-salt-defended-laser-lead-extractions-af-ablation-live-on-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday February 2 News Roundup: Salt Defended, Laser Lead Extractions, AF Ablation Live on TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Different View on Salt:<\/strong> In the face of popular proposals to cut dietary salt, Michael Alderman, in a <em><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/jama.ama-assn.org\/cgi\/content\/short\/303\/5\/448?home\"><em>JAMA<\/em> Commentary<\/a>, points to the paucity of randomized trials proving the benefits of sodium reductions. &#8220;Rarely, smoking excepted, do observational studies by repeated, robust, and consistently positive findings justify a public health recommendation.&#8221; Alderman proposes &#8220;a more cautious approach&#8221; of first performing randomized trials.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Laser Lead Extraction:<\/strong> A large consecutive series of laser-assisted lead extractions produced few complications and a high success rate, though centers with low volume had higher complication rates. Bruce Wilkoff led the <a href=\"http:\/\/content.onlinejacc.org\/cgi\/content\/abstract\/55\/6\/579\">study that was published in the <em>Journal of the American College of Cardiology<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>AF Ablation on <em>The Today Show<\/em>: <\/strong>Mauricio Arruda performed a live AF catheter ablation procedure on The Today Show. <a href=\"http:\/\/today.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/26184891\/vp\/35180025#35180025\">Click here to view the segment<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Different View on Salt: In the face of popular proposals to cut dietary salt, Michael Alderman, in a JAMA Commentary, points to the paucity of randomized trials proving the benefits of sodium reductions. &#8220;Rarely, smoking excepted, do observational studies by repeated, robust, and consistently positive findings justify a public health recommendation.&#8221; Alderman proposes &#8220;a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}