{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":300,"width":600,"title":"\ud83e\udec0 The Spleen\u2013Heart Axis: Could the spleen hold a missing clue to coronary artery disease?","description":"\ud83e\udec0 Could the spleen hold a missing clue to coronary artery disease? Kamineni et al. used deep learning to extract 107 splenic MRI features in &amp;gt;42,000 UK Biobank participants. \ud83d\udd2c Ten were associated with CAD, while genomics identified 219 loci\u2014including the enigmatic 9p21 CAD locus. \ud83e\uddec The intriguing message: splenic texture\u2014not simply size\u2014may reflect a hematopoietic\u2013inflammatory\u2013genetic axis underlying CAD. \u26a0\ufe0f External clinical replication was limited, so this is mechanistic discovery, not yet a clinical risk tool. ","author_name":"Dr. RR Baliga's 'Podkast for the Kurious Doc'. Where Curiosity meets Clarity!","author_url":"http:\/\/www.MasterMedFacts.com","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/42853675\/height\/300\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"300\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/content\/206160845"}