World Heart Podcasts

Send us a text In this episode, we explore the 2025 WHO guidelines on the use of low-sodium salt substitutes. Prof. Mary L’Abbé, a member of the WHO guideline development group, explains the evidence, recommendations, and key considerations behind this important new guideline. Later, Prof. Jaime Miranda reflects on the global public health implications, implementation challenges, and how salt substitution could be a game changer for reducing population-level cardiovascular risk. Tune in to learn about the science, the controversies, and the potential for real-world impact. And you can have access to the full WHO report here: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240105591 Read the Editorial on Global Heart Journal https://globalheartjournal.com/articles/10.5334/gh.1419 Further reading: - Salt study in Peru: Effect of salt substitution on community-wide blood pressure and hypertension incidence, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0754-2 - UN GSDR 2023 report: Global Sustainable Development Report 2023: Times of Crisis, Times of Change - Science for Accelerating Transformations to Sustainable Development, https://sdgs.un.org/gsdr/gsdr2023

Send us a text Wrap up February with the latest episode of the World Heart Podcast! This time, hosts Lisa Hadeed and Shreya Srikanth welcome Dr. Larry Sperling, a leading expert in preventive cardiology, to discuss the critical connection between influenza and heart health. Dr. Sperling shares key insights on how the flu can increase cardiovascular risks, why the annual flu shot is a powerful heart disease prevention strategy, and what steps we can take to protect ourselves and our communities. Tune in for an engaging conversation on the importance of vaccination, the science behind flu-related heart risks, and the role of healthcare professionals in building vaccine trust. Listen now on all major podcast platforms!

Send us a text Kick off 2025 with the Global Heart Podcast! Our January episode features Dr. Raul Santos, Global Heart's new Editor-in-Chief, and Dr. Jagat Narula, WHF President, sharing their inspiring visions for advancing global cardiovascular research through Global Heart and the World Heart Federation to improve heart health worldwide.

Join us for the latest episode of the World Heart Federation Podcast, hosted by WHF Senior Science Advisor, Pablo Perel. This time, we welcome Professor David Wood, a global leader in cardiovascular prevention, to discuss the groundbreaking and recently published INTERASPIRE study. Discover its key findings related to the critical gaps in achieving care standards for cardiovascular secondary prevention. Link to the paper: https://academic.oup.com/eurheartj/article/45/39/4184/7742405 Details on the INTERASPIRE study on World Heart Observatory website: https://world-heart-federation.org/world-heart-observatory/multi-national-studies/

In this third episode of our podcast series ‘Global Heart Podcast', World Heart Federation Science Advisor Pablo Perel discusses recent global cardiovascular research on air pollution and explains findings and implications with lead authors of the papers. Mark MillerWorld Heart Report 2024Dorairaj PrabhakaranLongitudinal associations between ambient PM2.5 exposure and lipid levels in two Indian cities This episode was recorded at the World Heart Summit 2024 in Geneva, Switzerland.

In this second episode of our podcast series ‘Global Heart Podcast', World Heart Federation Science Advisor Pablo Perel and Global Heart Journal Editor-in-chief Rick Grobbee discuss recent global cardiovascular research on secondary prevention and explain findings and implications with lead authors of the papers. Clara ChowWorld Heart Federation Roadmap for Secondary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease: 2023 Update - Global Heart (globalheartjournal.com)David FloodSang Gune (Kyle) Yoo Aspirin for Secondary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease in 51 Low-, Middle-, and High-Income Countries | Cardiology | JAMA | JAMA Network

In this first episode of our new podcast series ‘Global Heart Podcast', World Heart Federation Science Advisor Pablo Perel and Global Heart Journal Editor-in-chief Rick Grobbee discuss recent global cardiovascular research on hypertension and explain findings and implications with lead authors of the papers. Vilma Irazola Implementation outcomes and strategies for delivering evidence-based hypertension interventions in lower-middle-income countries: Evidence from a multi-country consortium for hypertension control Anthony RodgersRationale for a new low-dose triple single pill combination for the treatment of hypertensionThomas GazianoResults of a Remotely Delivered Hypertension and Lipid Program in More Than 10 000 Patients Across a Diverse Health Care Network

In this second episode of our new podcast series 'Data at the Heart', journalist Tony Johnston talks to Sarah Des Rosiers, Director of Health Equity at the Novartis Foundation. Sarah manages strategic public-private partnerships to advance the response against cardiovascular diseases worldwide, leveraging the power of data and digital for population health impact. The World Heart Observatory is the first global data hub for cardiovascular conditions and risk factors. It combines data from different sources to provide the latest, most accurate information on the global burden of cardiovascular disease: https://worldheartobservatory.org/ This episode is supported by Novartis Foundation.

In this first episode of our new podcast series 'Data at the Heart', journalist Tony Johnston engages in a compelling conversation with Mariachiara Di Cesare, Professor in Population Studies and Global Health and Director of the Institute of Public Health and Wellbeing at the University of Essex. Chiara has played a pivotal role in shaping the World Heart Federation's World Heart Observatory and is lead author of the World Heart Report 2023. The World Heart Observatory is the first global data hub for cardiovascular conditions and risk factors. It combines data from different sources to provide the latest, most accurate information on the global burden of cardiovascular disease: https://worldheartobservatory.org/ This episode is supported by Novartis Foundation.

A limited-edition podcast series on women and cardiovascular health Women and cardiovascular health is a topic close to our hearts and at the centre of the activities of many of our Members. This year, our podcast Conversations from the Heart will take a deep dive into gender equity as a way of improving heart health for everyone. To mark International Women's Day 2022, we are kicking off with women in cardiology: the role they play in the workforce, in patient-physician relationships and in changing the culture of cardiology. We speak with two young cardiologists from Sri Lanka and Iraq, who are at the forefront of promoting gender equity and who are also WHF’s Emerging Leaders. Aaysha Cader is an interventional cardiologist originally from Sri Lanka and currently working at the Ibrahim Cardiac Hospital & Research Institute, Dhaka, Bangladesh; Zainab Atiyah Dakhil, is an academic and interventional cardiologist working at Ibn AlBitar Cardiac Centre Baghdad, Iraq. They share with our listeners the source of their drive to help people and why they chose cardiology, despite the hurdles they encountered along the way.

Join us to listen to the Interview of Prof Srinath Reddy, president of the Public Health Foundation of India and formerly headed the Department of Cardiology at All India Institute of Medical Sciences. Widely regarded as a leader of preventive cardiology at national and international levels, Reddy has been a researcher, teacher, policy enabler, advocate and activist who has worked to promote cardiovascular health, tobacco control, appropriate nutrition across the life course, chronic disease prevention and healthy living across the lifespan.

Today, we have the pleasure to speak with Prof. Liesl Zuhlke, a paediatric cardiologist in Cape Town, an emerging leader in cardiovascular medicine on the African continent. If you check her biography online you will find out that her major research interests lie in Rheumatic Heart Disease and congenital heart disease but today we will offer more than this to our listeners, we will find out from her about her life, her passions, and fears, why she chose this path in life, what inspires her, and what she sees as a hurdle in her job and globally in public health.

Today we have the pleasure to speak with Prof Salim Yusuf, a renowned cardiologist, WHF Past President, Distinguished Professor of Medicine at McMaster University and Executive Director of the Population Health Research Institute (PHRI). For the last 40 years, his research has played a key role in improving CVD treatment and prevention in different parts of the world.