Gearing up for MASALA Study Exam 3! Grateful to be a part of the team for this important work.

Best wishes for a joyous Diwali!

"... COVID-hospitalization numbers... say nothing about the dwindling workforce, the mounting exhaustion of those left behind, the expertise now missing from hospitals, or the waves of post-COVID or non-COVID patients."

Could not agree more.

This is so painfully true.

The CARE registry is enrolling 10,000 Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders who want to hear about new research studies We need #SouthAsian representation in research careregistry.ucsf.edu The Aerogram South Asian Public Health Association (SAPHA) Vignesh Ramachandran SAALT SAADA India West India Abroad

Please see Supplemental Table 47 for our sensitivity analysis

This is the same panic-neglect cycle that dooms us to a perpetual state of pandemic unpreparedness. It's truly amazing to watch it unfold *in the middle of a pandemic.* theatlantic.com/health/archive…

Bookmarking this.

What factors put people of South Asian descent at higher risk of #cardiovascular disease than other groups in the US? jenabbasi spoke with Alka Kanaya and namratha kandula about the MASALA Study and the #SAHELI and #SAATH studies. ja.ma/3yBfL6L

Excellent work from the Pew Research Center: Being Asian in America

Better data for better health

Congratulations to Anand Rohatgi @UTSWNews for new NIH NHLBI funding to use data and specimens from MASALA, MESA, and UK Biobank to better understand lipoprotein metabolism in #SouthAsians Meghana Gadgil Miguel Cainzos-Achirica Amit V. Khera

This is perfect.

Excited for our team to host another virtual community forum on Saturday, Feb 18th at 2pm PT/4pm CT Hear about our newest study findings related to diabetes, discuss new diabetes treatments, and join a twin hearts meditation Contact us to join the forum

Congratulations Alka Kanaya !! So happy to see her brilliant, dedicated work for so many years be honored in this way. UCSFDGIM UCSF Department of Medicine MASALA Study

Fantastic talk and setting the stage for future important work benefitting South Asian health. Grateful to learn from Alka Kanaya

Thanks to ⁦anil oza⁩ for this broad and detailed review of South Asian heart disease ⁦nature⁩ Featuring ⁦Mohammed K Ali⁩ ⁦Dr.V.Mohan⁩ ⁦Pradeep Natarajan⁩ ⁦Alka Kanaya⁩ ⁦namratha kandula⁩ and others #SouthAsianCVD nature.com/articles/d4158…

Among US South Asian adults, a culturally adapted group lifestyle intervention led to small improvements in self-reported health behaviors but was not more effective than written health education materials for CVD risk factor reduction. ja.ma/4elZKEX