Excellent work led by Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center alumnus Erfan Tasdighi Zeina Dardari Anandita Agarwala Kulkarni, MD FACC Seamus Whelton Jaideep Aamir Javaid, MD Michael J. Blaha & their all-star Prevention team Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center Johns Hopkins Cardiology #🥍🫀🎾🏊🏼‍♀️⚾️⚽️🏃‍♀️🏏

Newest paper using MASALA and DILWALE data to define CAC distributions for men and women across middle-older age years

#SouthAsian #CAC #risk OurHealth Indiaspora Such important data for us to know. Thank you for this critical work.

Thrilled to share CAC percentiles for US South Asians. We know being SA is a risk enhancing factor, but guidelines recommended using White percentiles as this data didn’t exist. It turns out, SA typically have higher CAC at any given percentile after age 45. The Osler Medical Residency

🚨 Excited to share our latest 📄 describing #CAC percentiles in South Asian adults led by Erfan Tasdighi Anandita Agarwala Kulkarni, MD FACC 🆕 First study investigating the distribution of CAC scores across adult lifespan 🔗 sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center MASALA Study #DILWALE 🧵⤵️

Evolocumab given within 24 hr of admission for STEMI or NSTEMI significantly reduced myocardial inflammation at 30 days vs placebo. Could PCSK9i become standard therapy for acute MI? Congrats Efthymios (Timos) Ziogos The Osler Medical Residency Johns Hopkins Cardiology

🧵 New study out now in JACC: Basic to Translational Science! 🔗 sciencedirect.com/science/articl… 👇 A thread on PCSK9 inhibition, post-MI inflammation, and cardiac remodeling:

Dr. Mirowski and his partner Dr. Mower set up a lab in the basement of Sinai Hospital in Baltimore. An amazing story about the development of the ICD at Sinai

Our new JAMA Cardiology study finds that many US adults don't know that they have hypertension, diabetes, or high cholesterol Nearly 1 in 3 young adults w/ hypertension, 2 in 5 with diabetes, and 1 in 4 with high cholesterol are unaware of their condition. bit.ly/45an6MC

Statins serve as a solid start to lipid-lowering therapy, but many patients need more. Doubling the dose only additionally lowers LDL-C by about 6%, and that pattern holds even at 4x and 8x the dose. For many patients struggling with persistently high LDL-C, higher dose statins

Check out our educational video on #CKM syndrome on VuMedi based on our case-based review: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Chiadi Ndumele Roger Blumenthal Aamir Javaid, MD Interdisciplinary Management for Patients with CKM Syndrome: Interactive Case Discussions vumedi.com/video/interdis…

We are excited to welcome our 2025 #UCSFCardiology fellows Drs. Soumya Banna, Eli Grunblatt, Aamir Javaid, Suraj Kannan, Ivan Kuznetsov, Bret Pinsker & Kimberly Yan. These photos were taken on a summer day at the VA San Francisco. 🌁 UC San Francisco UCSF Health Atif Qasim

CKM (cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic) syndrome is a new framework by American Heart Association to help comprehensively care for patients’ heart, kidney, and metabolic health. Our new video walks through cases on how to use the CKM framework and PREVENT score to guide clinical management!

🧵1/Today, we published a key milestone towards AI based cardiac screening in Nature. doi.org/10.1038/s41586… EchoNext outperformed cardiologists and found thousands of high-risk patients missed in routine care. We also made a version available to the world.

🏆 Honoring the “undisputed coach” of cardiovascular prevention ASPC gives Roger Blumenthal the Joseph Stokes III Pioneer in Prevention Award 🏆 Congrats to all of this year’s award winners, including Helen Hobbs and Harmony Reynolds #ASPC2025 #CVPrev

🌟 Important work from the amazing Nick Nurmohamed & team describing 4.6+ million US patients with a 1st MI from 2017-2022: doi.org/10.1093/eurhea… ✴️18% had no standard modifiable CV risk factors ✴️ 63% on no preventive therapy: only 22% on statins pre-MI ✴️ 51% with no

Nice UCSF Cardiology fellow spotlight on Eli Grublatt, our newest #CardioOnc Fellow at UCSF. Eli received MD/PhD University of Washington School of Medicine and completed residency at NU Internal Medicine training w/ the many greats there: Nausheen Akhter, MD...Great to have him in my clinic & program! ucsfhealthcardiology.ucsf.edu/education/spot…

VESALIUS & the Anatomy of High-Risk Prevention | New England Journal of Medicine - editorial led by ⁦Chiadi Ndumele⁩ ⁦Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center⁩ ⁦Johns Hopkins Medicine⁩ ⁦Johns Hopkins Cardiology⁩ nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

Had an amazing time at AHA this year with all the UCSF Cardiology 1st year fellows! Suraj Kannan Aamir Javaid, MD Eli Grunblatt Soumya Banna Bret Pinsker Ivan Kuznetsov #AHA25