The Thunderbolt Is Not the Storm

A major cardiology trial called ZEUS tested a monthly injection that successfully reduced inflammation markers in high-risk heart patients. The drug worked exactly as designed. Cardiovascular deaths, heart attacks, and strokes were completely unchanged. The inflammatory hypothesis just got much harder to defend.

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What is The Naked Heart?

The Naked Heart is a weekly series of blogs and social media publications from English cardiologist Dr Edward Leatham. His brief is to apply 50 years of breathing and practicing medicine to the series as part of a move from cardiologist and physician to educator.

The podcast publications that accompany each blog are AI constructs designed to broaden my audience and make quite complicated yet important knowledge more accessible.

The blog articles release each week provide additional information for readers https://www.scvc.co.uk/category/naked-heart/

Podcasts until Jan 2026 are located at https://Nakedheart.podbean.com

Podcasts after Jan 2026 are located at https://feeds.transistor.fm/the-naked-heart

Disclosure

Dr Leatham is Director and Founder of the Surrey Cardiovascular Clinic and, since 2019, Co-Founder and Managing Director of HeartScanDirect (https://www.heartscandirect.com/), one of the UK’s leading cardiac CT providers specialising in AI-processed scans and among the few cardiologist-led CT services in the country. Dr Leatham’s own private medical practice is based at the Surrey cardiovascular clinic and therefore has a major financial interest in the Surrey Cardiovascular clinic, the Virtual Cath Lab and Vat-Trap.com. He has no financial relationship with any pharma company or product.

A full disclosure is available at https://www.vat-trap.com/disclosures.