Cardiovascular Medicine

The research shows that by getting enough sleep and reducing variability around sleep onset and wake times, patients can reduce the incidence of chronic disease. Insufficient, irregular and poor-quality sleep is associated with many chronic conditions, including obesity, atrial fibrillation, hypertension, major depressive disorder and generalized anxiety disorder. Those were the main conclusions of a study recently published in the journal Nature Medicine from corresponding author Evan Brittain, MD, MSCI, professor of Medicine.

The researchers tested the feasibility of using a simple set of proteins from blood to capture a molecular fingerprint of cardiorespiratory fitness.

Associate professor of Medicine and Radiology and director of Cardio-Oncology Eiman Jahangir, MD, MPH, has been selected by the organization MoonDAO to go into space aboard the Blue Origin rocket, New Shepard, after being chosen in a worldwide contest.

An anticancer drug blunted atherosclerosis progression — and even made plaques shrink — in a mouse model of the disease, opening new opportunities for preventing and treating this leading cause of death.

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.