Opinion from the audience: how should Lp(a) be incorporated in practice? #EPILifestyle23 #JAHAMeetingReport #AHAJournals

Come check out a fascinating poster 🖼️right now on PAD -> femur fracture 🦵🦴from ARIC!! Mengkun Chen Yejin Mok Kuni Matsushita

A new #ARIC study led by Yejin Mok showing the robust association of ⬆️coronary artery calcification #CAC with 1-year #CVD including #heartfailure 🫀 in the 75-&-older population AHA Science Yasu HONDA, MD Frances Wang, PhD MS Matthew Budoff MD Michael J. Blaha ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CI…

Great to see this one out. Wonderful leadership by Frances Wang, PhD MS Michael J. Blaha and Kuni Matsushita using @nih_nhlbi -funded MESA and ARIC-CAC data to define CAC score percentiles in people aged 75 and above ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CI…

Our Circulation CircImaging editorial led by the amazing Melissa Daubert Duke Health “Heart of the Matter: Expanding the Applicability of #CAC to a More Diverse Population” Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai Cedars-Sinai Academic Medicine ASPC Robert Mentz, MD Khurram Nasir Ron Blankstein ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.11…

Racial Disparities in Obesity‐Related Cardiovascular Mortality in the United States: Temporal Trends From 1999 to 2020. #AHAJournals Zahra Raisi-Estabragh Renée Bullock-Palmer MD FACC FAHA FASNC FASE FSCCT Harriette Van Spall, MD MPH 🇨🇦 Khadijah Breathett, MD, MS, FACC, FAHA, FHFSA ahajrnls.org/3PViF0f

Vascular aging as identified by CT imaging can be utilized as a marker for aging phenotypes and aging trajectory 🔗atherosclerosis-journal.com/article/S0021-… Ellen Boakye, MD MPH Michael J. Blaha Khurram Nasir @JoeCoresh Kuni Matsushita priyapalta Miguel Cainzos-Achirica Omar Dzaye Zeina Dardari Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

We're #hiring for 3 roles: Course Director for Introduction to Clinical Informatics; Postdoctoral Researcher on Large Language Models Auditing; and Associate or Full Professor (quantitative epidemiology). Please see our careers page for more info: epibiostat.ucsf.edu/careers

In a 2023 Science study, AI at Meta researchers showed the power of a large language model—#ESMFold—to enable protein structure prediction and analysis. Using ESMfold, they generated a database of over 600 million metagenomic proteins. scim.ag/6mM #ScienceMagArchives

🎼🫀 Is it possible to listen to arrhythmias? Find out in this new JACC Journals piece.👇 🔗doi.org/10.1016/j.jace… 🔗authors.elsevier.com/a/1kxkp,siTgod… (30-day free access, May 2025) #CardioX #MedEd #musicandmedicine

There is an association between a #CoronaryArteryCalcium score of 0 in older adulthood and having a favorable mid- to late-life average risk factor profile. Frances Wang, PhD MS Shoshana Ballew Candace Howard, MD PhD, FACR Matthew Budoff MD Michael J. Blaha thecardiologyadvisor.com/news/risk-fact…