Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and the VA Tennessee Valley Healthcare System have demonstrated in a small clinical study that “turning up the heat” on fat may help people lose weight and reduce their risk of obesity-related cardiovascular and metabolic disease.
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.
A multicenter study led by Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Lipscomb University College of Pharmacy in Nashville has identified a potential new treatment for acute heart failure, a leading cause of hospitalization and 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.
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.
Vanderbilt University Medical Center scientists are launching a research platform called ELVIS that is devoted to molecular underpinnings of early-childhood determinants of health. The seven-year, $51 million project is being led by Infectious Diseases Dr. Suman Das.
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.
