The skeptical cardiologist has become an unbridled pickleball enthusiast in the last year. Since my teens, I’ve had a fondness for all activities that involve whacking a moving ball with
When my dad was 70 he suffered a small heart attack, aka MI, and one of my partners performed an invasive coronary angiogram on him which demonstrated a long, complicated,
In a previous post, the skeptical cardiologist enthusiastically proclaimed CCTA as the ideal tool for assessing stable individuals for the presence, characteristics, and severity of atherosclerotic plaque (aka the atherosclerotic
The skeptical cardiologist wrote a long post in 2017 entitled “Do Statins Cause Memory Loss? The Science, The Media, The Statin-Denialist Cult, and The Nocebo Effect” which was updated in
This is a quick post to notify individuals with high lipoprotein(a) levels of a clinical trial of lepodisiran that they may qualify for. I’ve written in detail about the hidden
The skeptical cardiologist attempted to answer the question “Should you take a statin drug if you feel fine over the age of 75 years ?” in 2018. When I wrote
In March of 2022 the skeptical cardiologist and his wife, (formerly the eternal fiancee’) loaded half of their St. Louis belongings into a green Mini Countryman and set off down
Lately, I’ve been pondering writing a post entitled “Who Are the Greatest Purveyors (or Spewers) of Online Pseudoscientific* Bullshit?” I have a fondness for the term BS to describe certain
Anthony C. Pearson M.D., F.A.C.C. is a cardiologist, musician, writer and a regular columnist at MedPage Today