February 2022 Discover Circ Res

<p>This month on Episode 33 of <em>Discover CircRes</em>, host Cynthia St. Hilaire highlights two original research articles featured in the February 4 issue of <em>Circulation Research</em>. In addition, she previews <em>Circulation Research’s</em> Compendium on Women and Cardiovascular Health, featured in the February 18^th issue. This episode also features a conversation with Dr Alastair Poole and Dr Laura Corbin from the University of Bristol and Dr Stephen White from the Manchester Metropolitan University about their study, Epigenetic Regulation of F2RL3 Associates with Myocardial Infarction and Platelet Function.</p> <p><em> </em></p> <p><strong>Article highlights:</strong></p> <p> </p> <p>Samargandy, et al. <a href= "https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.121.319424">Blood Pressure Trajectories and Menopause</a></p> <p> </p> <p>Gilchrist, et al. <a href= "https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.121.320403">Research Goes Red Registry</a></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Cindy St. Hilaire:       </strong> Hi, and welcome to <em>Discover CircRes</em>, the podcast of the American Heart Association's Journal, <em>Circulation Research</em>. I'm your host, Dr Cindy St. Hilaire from the Vascular Medicine Institute at the University of Pittsburgh and today I'm going to be highlighting articles from our February issues of <em>Circulation Research</em>. I'm also going to speak with Dr Alastair Poole and Dr Laura Corbin from the University of Bristol and Dr Stephen White from the Manchester Metropolitan University about their study, Epigenetic Regulation of F2RL3 Associates with Myocardial Infarction and Platelet Function.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Cindy St. Hilaire</strong>:        The first article I want to share is titled Trajectories of Blood Pressure in Midlife Women: Does Menopause Matter? The first author is Saad Samargandy, and the corresponding author is Samar El Khoudary from the University of Pittsburgh. Blood pressure increases with age, but after midlife, the rate of increase for wo