TY - JOUR T1 - Highlights from this issue JF - Thorax JO - Thorax SP - 743 LP - 743 DO - 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2021-217852 VL - 76 IS - 8 AU - The Triumvirate Y1 - 2021/08/01 UR - http://thorax.bmj.com/content/76/8/743.abstract N2 - The long hot days and warm nights of summer are hard to beat, although it is likely that the holidays will be spent this year in Old Blighty rather travelling to foreign shores. The Trimuvirate, like others, are going to have to be content with listening to sizzling sounds over this summer. Here are the best sounds from the current issue of Thorax.Swedish pop duo Roxette, Per Gessle and Maria Fredriksson, recorded this song in the summer of 1988 and possibly this provided the inspiration for Axson and colleagues (see page 807) to investigate the relationship between heart failure and heart failure medications on the risk of moderate-to-severe acute exacerbation of COPD. Using retrospective cohort data from 2006 to 2016, 86 795 patients with COPD without evidence of HF (n=60 047), possible HF (n=8476) and newly diagnosed HF (n=2066) were recorded. Newly diagnosed HF and possible HF increased exacerbation risk as did use of all HF medications. As Roxette reported over 30 years ago, you should always listen to your heart, there’s nothing else you can do.Louis Armstrong’s song from 1967 is in the Grammy Hall of … ER -