Top in cardiology: Benefits of time-restricted eating; new myocarditis treatment advisory

Time-restricted eating, particularly among people with underlying metabolic disorders, may confer benefits beyond weight loss, according to a speaker at World Congress on Insulin Resistance, Diabetes & Cardiovascular Disease.

People who practice time-restricted eating may also experience reduced glycemic variability, lowering risk for heart failure and diabetes complications.

“It’s important to pay attention to circadian biology, and this is also pertinent to how we’re eating,” Pam R. Taub, MD, FACC, founder and director of the Step Family Foundation Cardiac Rehabilitation and Wellness Center and professor of medicine at UC San Diego Health, said during a presentation.

“That’s really the concept of time-restricted eating. Restricting our eating to a certain period of the day and giving our cells a metabolic rest,” she added. “When you do that, you call the cells to do important processes like cellular repair, autophagy, which is the vacuum cleaner for the cells.”

It was the top story in cardiology last week.

In another top story, Healio spoke with Mark H. Drazner, MD, MSC, FACC, clinical chief of cardiology at UT Southwestern Medical Center about the new myocarditis staging system and decision pathway released by the American College of Cardiology.

Read these and more top stories in cardiology below:

Cardiometabolic benefits of time-restricted eating may go beyond weight loss

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The American College of Cardiology recently issued an expert consensus document outlining a novel staging system and decision pathway for the diagnosis, treatment and longitudinal follow-up of patients with myocarditis. Read more.

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