
Yumi Kang, MD, PhD
@yumikangendo
Endocrinologist in the cardiometabolic space. Senior fellow at @BrighamEndo @TIMIStudyGroup. Appropriately caffeinated. 👩⚕️ in 🇰🇷🇺🇸🇦🇪
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21-03-2021 17:21:28
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Fascinating data from FOURIER presented by Yumi Kang, MD, PhD, MPH at #ESCCongress2024! Efficacy of PCSK9 mAb in patients with obesity - excess MACE risk conferred by obesity is attenuated by evolocumab. ARR 5.7% in those w BMI >35 at baseline! #ESCCongress


Evolocumab appears to attenuate the excess risk of MACE in patients with obesity. Yumi Kang, MD, PhD, MPH Michelle O'Donoghue Robert Giugliano #ESCCongress


Congratulations, Sid M. Patel, on delivering this important message for our patients! Your leadership and guidance continue to inspire us all.


What an incredible experience learning from and being trained by these visionaries! Forever grateful. TIMI Study Group

It is a huge honor to celebrate the 40 years of TIMI’s history with these visionaries #EugeneBraunwald #MarcSabatine TIMI Study Group Brigham and Women's Hospital

Robert Giugliano with a wonderful talk around new acs and pci guidelines Here are the 13 new class 1 recommendations in European Society of Cardiology guidelines Joint meeting of Coronary Revascularization meeting



#Perspective Celebrating 40 years of success with the TIMI Study Group: origin and future directions TIMI Study Group ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.11…



Coverage in MedPage Today of AZALEA-TIMI 71 primary results. #abelacimab Robert Giugliano Sid M. Patel medpagetoday.com/cardiology/arr…

Original Article: “Long-Term Cognitive Safety of Achieving Very Low LDL Cholesterol with Evolocumab” by André Zimerman et al. eviden.cc/3P3AmcQ Robert Giugliano TIMI Study Group #Cardiology #ClinicalTrials



There doesn’t appear to be a floor with LDL—💥 lower is better, even in the elderly. Check out our work in JACC Journals sciencedirect.com/science/articl…


Updated 2025 ACC/AHA ACS Guidelines now released! Congratulations to Michelle O'Donoghue, TIMI Senior Investigator, who served as Co-Chair. ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CI…

Great deep dive into cardiometabolic health in Asian populations and the heterogeneity in CV effects of GLP-1 RAs by race. Delivered by three Asian experts I admire. Tune in at 15:30! 🎧 Matthew MY Lee Dr. Alice Cheng #NaveedSattar

Beyond the❤️: GLP-1 RAs also reduce non-CV mortality. Meta-analysis of 11 CVOTs (n=90,867) shows ↓ in all-cause, CV, and non-CV deaths in people with T2DM/obesity. Yumi Kang, MD, PhD, MPH dom-pubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

Honor to work with my visionary cardiologist mentors who also know how to think outside the ❤️ Ben Scirica #MarcSabatine TIMI Study Group
