Associations Between Carotid Artery Plaque Burden, Plaque Characteristics, and Cardiovascular Events ja.ma/3t9PcRT via JAMA Cardiology part of JAMA Network

Development and validation of a prediction model for 30-day mortality in hospitalised patients with COVID-19: the COVID-19 SEIMC score thorax.bmj.com/content/early/…

Association of Burden of Atrial Fibrillation With Risk of Ischemic Stroke in Adults With Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation ja.ma/3rrJOJJ #MostCited

There is a rapid clinical impact when initiating dapagliflozin in patients with HFrEF, with particularly large absolute risk reductions in patients with a more recent HF hospitalization ja.ma/3eOZ9jy David Berg TIMI Study Group

Hot off the press! New #ARIC study showing depressive symptoms associated with risk of #CVD particularly #cvPAD led by Yasu HONDA, MD PAD should be included when evaluating #CV impact of psychosocial factors JHU Welch Center Yejin Mok Liz Selvin authors.elsevier.com/a/1d5JO4%7Evz2…

In stable CAD patients, elective coronary revascularisation plus medical therapy led to reduced cardiac mortality compared to medical therapy alone. Discover more from this meta-analysis in EHJ! ow.ly/Fvoh50ER0if #CAD #PCI #CABG #OMT #cardiotwitter European Society of Cardiology European Society of Cardiology Journals

CT density <32.9 HU and RI ≥ 1.08 are associated with lipid-rich plaque on NIRS imaging. These findings underscore the synergistic value of CT density and positive remodeling to detect lipid-rich plaque by CCTA.Atherosclerosis European Atherosclerosis Society @ELS_Cardiology atherosclerosis-journal.com/article/S0021-…

Impaired sleep quality (duration and fragmentation) is associated with adverse CV events. Good night, sleep tight! ow.ly/h5tu50ESUxm #sleep #CVD #health #cardiotwitter European Society of Cardiology European Society of Cardiology Journals

Study of measuring LVEF and LV strain in 4,960 older adults in ARIC suggests that current routine assessments of LV function may substantially under-estimate the prevalence of prognostically important impairments in systolic function in late life ja.ma/3tF8uyn

CAC may be used to reclassify intermediate-risk individuals after consideration of risk-enhancing factors ja.ma/3z2MXTz

Perhaps one of the best overviews of coronary revascularization. New teaching tool! ⁦American College of Cardiology⁩ #ACCCVT ⁦ACCP Cardiology PRN⁩ ⁦JACC Journals⁩

A new #ARIC study showing depressive symptoms and social support associated with #cvPAD but not necessarily with #CHD or #stroke. #PAD should be included when studying psychosocial factors & #CVD. Yasu HONDA, MD Yejin Mok Liz Selvin Kuni Matsushita atherosclerosis-journal.com/article/S0021-…

Thanks Atherosclerosis for featuring our recent article suggesting the importance of considering #cvPAD when studying psychosocial factors & #CVD Congrats Yasu HONDA, MD for the first paper after coming to Johns Hopkins Epidemiology JHU Welch Center Several papers in the pipeline #WelchWOW

Super excited about the SSaSS trial being published. Potassium-enriched salt substitute reduced the risk of stroke, major cardiovascular events, and all-cause mortality in a region of China with high salt intake. nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

In a population-based cohort, each daily cup of coffee was associated with a 3% reduced risk of arrhythmia. Mendelian randomization analysis failed to reveal evidence that caffeine increases the risk of incident arrhythmias ja.ma/3DUxUhT EJ Kim Greg Marcus

New #ARIC study showing elevated risk of abdominal aortic aneurysm #AAA in both symptomatic and asymptomatic #cvPAD 🦵. Major clinical guidelines recommend AAA screening mainly in symptomatic PAD, thus this finding has implications Kuni Matsushita bit.ly/3vfbOCUbit.ly/…

A new #ARIC study led by Yasu HONDA, MD showing associations of 5th-generation troponin T with #CVD outcomes Particularly potent associations with #HeartFailure & peripheral artery disease #cvPAD Yejin Mok Junichi Ishigami Christie Ballantyne Liz Selvin sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Great #EuroEcho Session w/ German Soc Cardiology on Mixed Valve Disease European Society of Cardiology EACVI President Victoria Delgado Nicolas Merke @drzgezdentok1 Denisa Muraru LEYLA ELIF SADE American Society of Echocardiography

New from our team on risk of mental health disorders in people with Covid-19 at 1 year The BMJ VA Research VA HSR @WUSTLpubhealth Test Account WUSTLnews Veterans Research & Education Foundation Yan Xie A thread 🧵 bmj.com/content/376/bm…

Hot off the press! A new #ARIC study led by Yasu HONDA, MD showing 1⃣ #FGF23 robustly associated with #HeartFailure 🫀 2⃣ #FGF23 more strongly related to #CVD in older vs. younger adults Junichi Ishigami Liz Selvin @PLutsey Johns Hopkins Epidemiology #WelchWOW sciencedirect.com/science/articl…