Can bacteria in the gut predict the severity of a heart attack? It may be able to help improve diagnosis and treatment of heart disease according to Michael Widlansky, MD, MPH, Northwestern Mutual Professor of Cardiology and professor of medicine, pharmacology and toxicology.

👏👏👏 Congratulations to Drs. Michael Widlansky and Mary Eapen on their recent award from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.

Widlansky et al developed a plaque sampling approach that was applied to patients with #CAD. Learn about the feasibility of obtaining #transcriptome information from plaques to identify differences between patient populations ahajrnls.org/3Z00sBv Michael Widlansky