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Meeting current and previous Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center fellows with the one and only Michael J. Blaha ⭐️ at #AHA24 AHA Science 🫀 Zeina Dardari Seme Burka, MD🫀 Jackie Yao

What a weekend #AHA2024 ❤️! Loved seeing everyone, especially my Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center team 🫶🏻! Jackie Yao Seme Burka, MD🫀 Michael J. Blaha Yara Jelwan Alexander C. Razavi

Polygenic Risk Scores & Extreme Coronary Artery Calcium Phenotypes (CAC=0 and CAC≥1000) in Adults ≥75 Years Old: The ARIC Study | Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging led by ⁦Omar Dzaye⁩ ⁦Michael J. Blaha⁩ #🥍🏏🏈⚽️ ⁦Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center⁩ ahajournals.org/doi/abs/10.116…

Coronary Artery Calcium for Risk Stratification of Heart Failure Death: Coronary Artery Calcium Consortium - led by ⁦The Osler Medical Residency⁩ ⭐️ @omarmhaimeed & @michaeljblaha ⁦Kavita Sharma⁩ 🥍🏏⚾️⚽️🏈 ⁦Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center⁩ ⁦Johns Hopkins Cardiology⁩ sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Use of e-cigarettes, traditional combustible cigarettes, & hsCRP sciencedirect.com/science/articl… led by Drs. Zhiqi Erfan Tasdighi Michael J. Blaha Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center Johns Hopkins Cardiology #🥍🏏⚾️🏈⚽️⛳️

Hot 🥵 off press -Allocation of Semaglutide According to Coronary Calcium & BMI: Applying SELECT Trial to MESA - ⁦JACC Journals⁩ led by alex 🏴‍☠️🇺🇸🇺🇦.razavi ⁦Omar Dzaye⁩ ⁦Michael J. Blaha⁩ ⁦Khurram Nasir⁩ ⁦Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center⁩ #🥍🫀🏈🎾⛳️ sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Such a great paper! Congrats Alexander C. Razavi 👏🏻

Non-cigarette tobacco products—cigars, pipes, and smokeless tobacco—pose substantial and distinct long-term cardiovascular risks, including increased risks of stroke, heart failure, atrial fibrillation, heart failure, and coronary heart disease. ja.ma/4afvmeA

Risk Profile & Implications of Premature Advanced Coronary Disease Among Young & Early Middle-aged Adults: Coronary Artery Calcium Consortium academic.oup.com/eurjpc/article… led by Drs. Ellen Boakye Michael J. Blaha Zeina Dardari Moein Dehesh Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center Johns Hopkins Cardiology #🥍🐦🫀⛳️🏃‍♀️🏈🏀

Young adults with CAC>90th percentile, i.e, premature advanced atherosclerosis, have higher all-cause and cause-specific mortality. This unique phenotype should be a target for aggressive clinical prevention Michael J. Blaha Moein Dehesh Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center academic.oup.com/eurjpc/advance…

Tool to calculate the CAC percentile for your young patients: cac-tools.com

Zeina Dardari Funmi Obisesan (Abiru) Albert Danso Osei Omar Dzaye Kunal Jha Alan Rozanski, MD Matthew Budoff MD Bokap xx Khurram Nasir Dr. John A Rumberger, PhD, MD, FACC, MSCCT Leslee Shaw Dr. Berman

New article hot off the press led by our Ciccarone Center rising 🌟 Jackie Yao Think cigars & smokeless tobacco are “safer”? Think again. 🚨 New research links non-cigarette tobacco to higher inflammation & early signs of CV harm. Hs-CRP and IL-6 can be biomarkers to detect

Noncigarette Tobacco Product Use Increases Subclinical Markers Related to CV Harm - led by Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center Johns Hopkins Cardiology ⭐️’s Jackie Yao Michael J. Blaha Erfan Tasdighi Kunal Jha Tanuja Rajan, MD acc.org/latest-in-card… #🥍🫀🐦⛳️⚾️🎾🏃‍♀️🏊🏼‍♀️

The age at which CAC is detectable among young adults varies based on the sex, race and risk factor profile. No single risk factor predicts this age in all the groups @yvetteeliza123 Michael J. Blaha #AHAJournals Jiwon Kim, MD Kaz Negishi@Cardiologist/ Heart Mafia ahajrnls.org/4bxrjLC

🚬 New study by Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center in JACC Journals reveals the link between smoking intensity, pack-years, and time since cessation with cardiovascular harm! 🫀 🫀 Smokers show higher inflammation, thrombosis, and atherosclerosis markers 📊 Dose-response relationships found

Excited to share the first time ever 🥁 "Sex-Specific CAC Percentiles Across South Asian Adults in U.S." 65% of men and 30% of women have CAC >0 by 55 ~75th percentile for 55yo SA men or 65yo SA women is absolute CAC score of 100 link: bit.ly/43l9TOw JACC Journals

Especial thanks to my SUPER AWESOME mentors Michael J. Blaha Anandita Agarwala Kulkarni, MD FACC and our outstanding co-authors and cohort representors Alka Kanaya, Javed Butler Jaideep Seamus Whelton Nilay Shah, Aamir Javaid, MD @Zeinadardari, Mathew Budoff, Saneel Kulkarni, Tsung-wei Ma

New—Prevalence of #clinical #obesity versus #BMI-defined obesity among US adults: a cohort study thelancet.com/journals/landi… #FREE to read