
Ahmed Tawakol
@atawakolmd
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14-10-2011 21:01:42
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Out in Nature Portfolio Brain regions control leukocytes during acute stress … implications for infection and autoimmunity Wolfram Poller Maziar Divangahi @ScottRusso_CAN Matthias Nahrendorf and the late P. Frenette Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Cardiovascular Research Institute at Sinai (CVRI) nature.com/articles/s4158…


Practice changing study, funded by NIH and co-led by colleagues MGH Cardiovascular Imaging Research Center and MassGeneral Medicine, persons with HIV on pitavastatin, who were considered to be at a low risk for an event, had a 35% lower rate of major cardiovascular events compared to placebo: tinyurl.com/yeymn6yn


Nice coverage of work by M. Osborne Ahmed Tawakol Mass General Heart trying to disentangle causality on this topic nytimes.com/interactive/20… The New York Times @MGH_RI MGH Cardiovascular Research Center

Great coverage The New York Times harmful health effects to high noise exposure Mike Osborne Ahmed Tawakol Sanjay Rajagopalan et al European Society of Cardiology EHJ Editor-in-Chief another demonstration of importance to study life style stressors such as stress, exercise, sleep, diet BioMedical Engineering and Imaging Institute




Incredible story of overcoming obstacles on his way to next American Heart Association Pres. Joseph C Wu, MD, PhD talks of journey as immigrant, farmer, MD, scientist, mentor. Great stuff. This is a special person. Big year ahead! nancyatheart AHA Science Stanford Department of Medicine heart.org/en/around-the-…

Largest RCT of plaque changes on CT in response to drug. MGH Cardiovascular Imaging Research Center


Delighted to collaborate on this excellent work led by J. Weiss Vineet Raghu Kaavya Paruchuri Michael Lu Mass General Heart using deep learning of widely used chest X-rays to augment current paradigms for statin allocation in primary prevention acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M2… Annals of Int Med


A study led by #MassGeneral physician Shady Abohashem, MD, was covered by U.S. News & World Report. The study found that people with genetically-driven stress are more likely to suffer heart attacks after stressful events. usnews.com/news/health-ne…



Highly ignored/understudied, yet probably one of more important domain for deciphering cardiometabolic health Great work Sadeer Al-Kindi, MD and Sanjay!


In this paper on stress & CVD, we find a novel association between disruptions in the uncinate fasciculus and carotid atherosclerotic burden. Grateful to Ahmed Tawakol zahifayad for this opportunity and to Dave Mandy van Leent for all the help! academic.oup.com/eurheartj/arti…


🎉 New HDSR Podcast! 🍷 For our latest episode, "How Many Glasses of Wine a Day Keeps the Doctor Away?," we talk to esteemed guests, Laura Catena & Ahmed Tawakol about the health benefits and potential drawbacks of #wine. 🎧 Listen now! hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/podcast

