Sugar-sweetened beverages, the epidemiology of driving after an ICD, BP measurements, and massive EBM lesson in EVT for acute stroke are the topics John Mandrola, MD, discusses in today's podcast.

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I. Sugar-Sweetened Beverages

Sugary Drinks Fuel Millions of Diabetes and CVD Cases https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/sugary-drinks-fuel-millions-diabetes-and-cvd-cases-2025a10002wr

Nature Medicin;e Epidemiologic Study https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-024-03345-4
JAMA-Network Open; Beverage Tax Observational Study https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2829505
Lancet Regional Health; Beverage Tax Philadelphia EHR 10.1016/j.lana.2024.100906

II. Driving With an ICD

JACC Electrophysiology paper https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacep.2024.12.002
Earlier HEART paper https://heart.bmj.com/content/110/24/1401

III. Blood Pressure Measurements and Simple RCTs

BP Readings in Noisy Market as Good as Quiet Office?

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/bp-readings-noisy-market-good-quiet-office-2025a10002z0

Annals of Internal Medicine Study https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/ANNALS-24-00873

IV. A Big Shake-up in Interventional Stroke Care

Endovascular Therapy Fails to Show Benefit in Distal Occlusion Stroke https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/endovascular-therapy-fails-show-benefit-distal-occlusion-2025a100035u
ESCAPE-MeVO https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2411668
DISTAL trial https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2408954
J. Mocco Editorial https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2500492

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