Vanderbilt’s Kathryn Lindley, MD, has worked with the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to develop a national toolkit for non-obstetricians to better identify and treat pregnant and postpartum patients with cardiovascular emergencies.
Study authors used activity, clinical and genetic data from the National Institutes of Health’s All of Us Research Program to explore the association of genetic risk of higher body mass index and the level of physical activity needed to reduce incident obesity.
A Vanderbilt study by Cardiovascular Medicine Drs. Hasan Siddiqi, Kelly Schlendorf and colleagues found no difference in one-year survival and other outcomes among heart transplant patients who received their new organs from from donation after circulatory death and donation after brain death.
Levels of the essential, branched-chain amino acids, valine, leucine and isoleucine, are involved in the regulation of lipid, glucose and protein metabolism.
Department of Medicine Drs. Jonathan Brown (Cardiovascular Medicine) and Matthew Semler (Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine) are among three VUMC physicians who have been elected this year to membership in the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI), one of the nation’s oldest and most respected medical honor societies.
Daniel Muñoz, MD, MPA, associate professor of Medicine, and Francis Miller, MD, professor of Medicine, have been named interim directors of the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Their appointments are effective Dec. 1.
The United States has the highest maternal mortality rate of any industrialized nation, a trend that has been accelerating for 20 years. But nearly two out of three maternal deaths are preventable, with cardiovascular disease (CVD) being the leading cause of death, said Kathryn Lindley, MD, holder of the Samuel S. Riven, MD, Directorship in Cardiology.
The Vanderbilt Women’s Heart Symposium provides a case-based educational program to strengthen clinical knowledge of cardiovascular care for female patients across their life course. Expert faculty from the multi-disciplinary Vanderbilt Women’s Heart Center will discuss key issues in the care of post-menopausal and pregnant patients.
