Ground Truths
Hosted by Eric Topol · Eric Topol
4.8from 106 ratings
- 96
- Episodes
- 6
- Transcribed
- 106
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2023
- First episode
- 224K
- YouTube views
About Ground Truths
Facts, data, and analytics about biomedical matters. erictopol.substack.com (https://erictopol.substack.com/s/podcasts?utm_medium=podcast)
- Publisher
- Eric Topol
- Category
- health & fitness · science
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 5 May 2023
- Latest episode
- 14 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
6 of 96 episodes have a transcript.
14 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Marios Georgakis: Why Did Two Major Clinical Trials for Heart Disease Fail?
30 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Two Landmark Studies Challenge Dogma About our Brain Immune Cells and Aging
23 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Deborah Cohen: The Wellness-Industrial Complex
Inside a recent episode
Marios Georgakis: Why Did Two Major Clinical Trials for Heart Disease Fail?
Published 14 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] So These associations have been out there for several decades. And of course, it's the question, what do they tell us, I think, in two different dimensions? One, can we interpret them in a way that they represent markers of vascular inflammation, if you wish? And on the one hand and on the other hand, can it mean that these very same markers, these molecules could be potentially with causal mediators of atherosclerosis and so potentially promising therapeutic talk. You just said the magic word, causal, right? That's the big deal. So LDL cholesterol has panned out to be an extraordinary surrogate, perhaps one of the best surrogates that we know in all of medicine because everything that has lowered LDL, whether it's statins, PCSK9, ezetimibe, I mean, you know, all these different things have correlated. with improved outcomes. […]
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- Marios Georgakis
- Deborah Cohen
- Sarah Urbut
- Patrick Hsu
- Aaron Newman
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 223,959
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.7 / 5
- 81 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 25 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 77 / 100
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- Quality
- 85
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 86
- Engagement
- 85
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