December 2, 2025: Global CVD 1990–2023: Trends, Risks, and the Road Ahead | JACC This Week

In the December 2, 2025 episode of JACC This Week, Editor-in-Chief Harlan M. Krumholz, MD, SM, introduces the Spotlight Issue, anchored by the manuscript "Global, Regional, and National Burden of Cardiovascular Disease and Risk Factors in 204 Countries and Territories, 1990–2023." Listen here as he reviews the issue and gives listeners perspective on the issue as a whole, which contains 19 viewpoints providing perspectives from experts around the world, plus his editor's page, aligned with a talk given at the UN with JACC Editor Emeritus Valentin Fuster, MD, and author Gregory A. Roth, MD. Other perspectives include: CVD in Sub-Saharan Africa; access to essential medicines and technologies; confronting inequities in pediatric cardiac care; and perspectives from Japan, Canada, the Middle East & North Africa, South America, Pakistan, and many others. Listen to the podcast and then check out the full issue online here: https://www.jacc.org/toc/jacc/86/22.