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Faculty Publications from 2022

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Habitual sleep duration and its relationship with cardiovascular health, healthcare costs, and resource utilization in a working population, Ehimen C. Aneni, Chukwuemeka U. Osondu, Jeffrin Joseph, Guljana Saeed, Javier Valero-Elizondo, Emir Veledar, and Khurram Nasir

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Stroke Genomics: Current Knowledge, Clinical Applications and Future Possibilities, Sandeep Appunni, Muni Rubens, Venkataraghavan Ramamoorthy, Anshul Saxena, Peter McGranaghan, and Emir Veledar

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Relationship of Blood and Urinary Manganese Levels with Cognitive Function in Elderly Individuals in the United States by Race/Ethnicity, NHANES 2011–2014, Arturo J. Barahona, Zoran Bursac, Emir Veledar, Roberto Lucchini, Kim Tieu, and Jason R. Richardson

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Racial Disparities in Acromegaly and Cushing's Disease: A Referral Center Study in 241 Patients, Adriana G. Ioachimescu, Neevedita Goswami, Talin Handa, Adlai Pappy, Emir Veledar, and Nelson M. Oyesiku

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Voting behavior during FDA Medical Device Advisory Committee panel meetings, Amanda Maisel-Campbell, Daniel I. Schlessinger, Arianna F. Yanes, Emir Veledar, Kelly A. Reynolds, Sarah A. Ibrahim, Bianca Y. Kang, Noor Anvery, Emily Poon, and Murad Alam

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Employee Perceptions on Ethics, Racial-Ethnic and Work Disparities in Long-Term Care: Implications for Ethics Committees, Charlotte McDaniel and Emir Veledar

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Hospital outcomes of patients receiving catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation, left atrial appendage closure, or both, Ramez Morcos, Haider Al Taii, Muni Rubens, Anshul Saxena, Venkataraghavan Ramamoorthy, Mohamed Hamed, Amr F. Barakat, Nitin Kulkarni, Houman Khalili, Santiago Garcia, Michael Megaly, Emir Veledar, and Stavros Stavrakis

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In-hospital outcomes of transesophageal versus intracardiac echocardiography guided left atrial appendage closure, Ramez Morcos, Michael Megaly, Marwan Saad, Amr F. Barakat, Muni Rubens, Anshul Saxena, Ayman Elbadawi, Michael Kucharik, Michael Luna, Santiago Garcia, Emir Veledar, Brijeshwar Maini, and Houman Khalili

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Impact of Frailty on Hospital Outcomes Among Patients with Lymphoid Malignancies Receiving Autologous Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation in the United States, Muni Rubens, Adrian Cristian, Venkataraghavan Ramamoorthy, Marco Ruiz, Anshul Saxena, Peter McGranaghan, Raees Tonse, and Emir Veledar

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Effect of frailty on hospital outcomes among patients with cancer in the United States: Results from the National Inpatient Sample, Muni Rubens, Adrian Cristian, Venkataraghavan Ramamoorthy, Anshul Saxena, Peter McGranaghan, Raees Tonse, and Emir Veledar

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Relationship between insurance status and interhospital transfers among cancer patients in the United States, Muni Rubens, Venkataraghavan Ramamoorthy, Anshul Saxena, Sandeep Appunni, Subrina Sundil, Emir Veledar, Peter McGranaghan, Raees Tonse, Sergio Jose Torralbas Fitz, Michael D. Chuong, Yazmin Odia, Ritesh Kotecha, Minesh P. Mehta, and Rupesh Kotecha

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Burden of maternal and fetal outcomes among pregnant cancer survivors during delivery hospitalizations in the United States, Muni Rubens, Venkataraghavan Ramamoorthy, Anshul Saxena, Peter McGranaghan, Sandeep Appunni, Md Ashfaq Ahmed, Zhenwei Zhang, Shelbie Burchfield, Raees Tonse, Emir Veledar, and Rupesh Kotecha

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Obstetric outcomes during delivery hospitalizations among obese pregnant women in the United States, Muni Rubens, Venkataraghavan Ramamoorthy, Anshul Saxena, Peter McGranaghan, Emir Veledar, and Agueda Hernandez

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Hospital Outcomes Among COVID-19 Hospitalizations With Myocarditis from the California State Inpatient Database, Muni Rubens, Venkataraghavan Ramamoorthy, Anshul Saxena, Juan Carlos Zevallos, Juan Gabriel Ruiz-Pelaez, Md Ashfaq Ahmed, Zhenwei Zhang, Peter McGranaghan, Emir Veledar, Javier Jimenez, and Sandra Chaparro

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Impact of COVID-19 on Intracranial Meningioma Resection: Results from California State Inpatient Database, Muni Rubens, Anshul Saxena, Venkataraghavan Ramamoorthy, Md Ashfaq Ahmed, Zhenwei Zhang, Peter McGranaghan, Emir Veledar, and Michael McDermott

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Hospital Outcomes among COVID-19 Hospitalizations with Acute Ischemic Stroke: Cross-Sectional Study Results from California State Inpatient Database, Muni Rubens, Anshul Saxena, Venkataraghavan Ramamoorthy, Md Ashfaq Ahmed, Zhenwei Zhang, Peter McGranaghan, Emir Veledar, Michael McDermott, and Felipe De Los Rios La Rosa

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Trends in quality of primary care in the United States, 2007–2016, Anshul Saxena, Venkataraghavan Ramamoorthy, Muni Rubens, Peter McGranaghan, Emir Veledar, and Khurram Nasir

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A Brief Overview of Adaptive Designs for Phase I Cancer Trials, Anshul Saxena, Muni Rubens, Venkataraghavan Ramamoorthy, Zhenwei Zhang, Md Ashfaq Ahmed, Peter McGranaghan, Sankalp Das, and Emir Veledar

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Hospitalization rates from radiotherapy complications in the United States, Raees Tonse, Venkataraghavan Ramamoorthy, Muni Rubens, Anshul Saxena, Peter McGranaghan, Emir Veledar, Matthew D. Hall, Michael D. Chuong, Manmeet S. Ahluwalia, Minesh P. Mehta, and Rupesh Kotecha

Faculty Publications from 2021

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Association between vitamin D deficiency and hypothyroidism: results from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2007–2012, Sandeep Appunni, Muni Rubens, Venkataraghavan Ramamoorthy, Anshul Saxena, Raees Tonse, Emir Veledar, and Peter McGranaghan

Incidentally detected acromegaly: Single-center study of surgically treated patients over 22 years, Erica Alexandra Giraldi, Emir Veledar, Nelson M. Oyesiku, and Adriana G. Ioachimescu

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Lipid metabolite biomarkers in cardiovascular disease: Discovery and biomechanism translation from human studies, Peter McGranaghan, Jennifer A. Kirwan, Mariel A. Garcia-Rivera, Burkert Pieske, Frank Edelmann, Florian Blaschke, Sandeep Appunni, Anshul Saxena, Muni Rubens, Emir Veledar, and Tobias Daniel Trippel

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Performance of a cardiac lipid panel compared to four prognostic scores in chronic heart failure, Peter McGranaghan, Anshul Saxena, Hans Dirk Düngen, Muni Rubens, Sandeep Appunni, Joseph Salami, Emir Veledar, Philipp Lacour, Florian Blaschke, Danilo Obradovic, Goran Loncar, Elvis Tahirovic, Frank Edelmann, Burkert Pieske, and Tobias Daniel Trippel

Life's Simple 7 and Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: The Multiethnic Study of Atherosclerosis, Ebenezer Oni, Oluseye Ogunmoroti, Norrina Allen, Mouaz H. A-Mallah, Ron Blankstein, Seth S. Martin, Irfan Zeb, Mary Cushman, Parag H. Joshi, Matthew J. Budoff, Michael J. Blaha, Roger S. Blumenthal, Emir Veledar, and Khurram Nasir

In-hospital outcomes after transcatheter edge-to-edge mitral valve repair in patients with chronic kidney disease: An analysis from the 2010–2016 National inpatient sample, Hemang B. Panchal, Gregg W. Stone, Anshul Saxena, Zoran Bursac, Emir Veledar, Arun Nagabandi, Charles J. Davidson, Martin B. Leon, and Nirat Beohar

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Prevalence and Inpatient Hospital Outcomes of Malignancy-Related Ascites in the United States, Venkataraghavan Ramamoorthy, Muni Rubens, Anshul Saxena, Chintan Bhatt, Sankalp Das, Sandeep Appunni, Emir Veledar, Peter McGranaghan, Nancy Shehadeh, Ana Viamonte-Ros, Yuliya Linhares, Yazmin Odia, Rupesh Kotecha, and Minesh P. Mehta

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Maximum intravenous alteplase dose for obese stroke patients is not associated with greater likelihood of worse outcomes, Kaushik Ravipati, Roboan Guillen, Starlie Belnap, Anshul Saxena, Emir Veledar, Amy K. Starosciak, and Felipe De Los Rios La Rosa

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Hospitalization rates for complications due to systemic therapy in the United States, Anshul Saxena, Muni Rubens, Venkataraghavan Ramamoorthy, Raees Tonse, Emir Veledar, Peter McGranaghan, Subrina Sundil, Michael D. Chuong, Matthew D. Hall, Yazmin Odia, Minesh P. Mehta, and Rupesh Kotecha

Faculty Publications from 2020

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Gender differences and temporal trends over two decades in acromegaly: a single center study in 112 patients, Adriana G. Ioachimescu, Talin Handa, Neevi Goswami, Adlai L. Pappy, Emir Veledar, and Nelson M. Oyesiku

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Incremental prognostic value of a novel metabolite-based biomarker score in congestive heart failure patients, Peter McGranaghan, Hans Dirk Düngen, Anshul Saxena, Muni Rubens, Joseph Salami, Jasmin Radenkovic, Doris Bach, Svetlana Apostolovic, Goran Loncar, Marija Zdravkovic, Elvis Tahirovic, Jovan Veskovic, Stefan Störk, Emir Veledar, Burkert Pieske, Frank Edelmann, and Tobias Daniel Trippel

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Lack of Efficacy of the Neutropenic Diet in Decreasing Infections among Cancer Patients: A Systematic Review, Venkataraghavan Ramamoorthy, Muni Rubens, Sandeep Appunni, Anshul Saxena, Peter McGranaghan, Emir Veledar, Ana Viamonte-Ros, Nancy Shehadeh, Adeel Kaiser, and Rupesh Kotecha

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A Clinical Tool to Identify Candidates for Stress-First Myocardial Perfusion Imaging, Soroush Rouhani, Ali Al Shahrani, Alomgir Hossain, Yeung Yam, R. Glenn Wells, Robert A. deKemp, Rob S. Beanlands, Terrence D. Ruddy, Marcelo F. Di Carli, Michael E. Merhige, Brent A. Williams, Emir Veledar, Daniel S. Berman, Sharmila Dorbala, and Benjamin J.W. Chow

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A risk model for prediction of 30-day readmission rates after surgical treatment for colon cancer, Muni Rubens, Venkataraghavan Ramamoorthy, Anshul Saxena, Chintan Bhatt, Sankalp Das, Emir Veledar, Peter McGranaghan, Ana Viamonte-Ros, Yazmin Odia, Michael Chuong, Rupesh Kotecha, and Minesh P. Mehta

Recent Health Care Expenditure Trends among Adult Cancer Survivors in United States, 2009-2016, Muni Rubens, Venkataraghavan Ramamoorthy, Anshul Saxena, Sankalp Das, Chintan Bhatt, Emir Veledar, Peter McGranaghan, Subrina Sundil, Nancy Shehadeh, Ana Viamonte-Ros, Yuliya Linhares, Yazmin Odia, Michael Chuong, Rupesh Kotecha, and Minesh P. Mehta

Inpatient Palliative Care Use among Critically III Brain Metastasis Patients in the United States, Muni Rubens, Venkataraghavan Ramamoorthy, Anshul Saxena, Peter McGranaghan, Chintan Bhatt, Sankalp Das, Nancy Shehadeh, Emir Veledar, Ana Viamonte-Ros, Yazmin Odia, Minesh P. Mehta, and Rupesh Kotecha

Increasing Sepsis Rates in the United States: Results From National Inpatient Sample, 2005 to 2014, Muni Rubens, Anshul Saxena, Venkataraghavan Ramamoorthy, Sankalp Das, Rohan Khera, Jonathan Hong, Donna Armaignac, Emir Veledar, Khurram Nasir, and Louis Gidel

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The Effect of a County Prehospital FAST-ED Initiative on Endovascular Treatment Times, Helen Rynor, Jake Levine, Joseph Souchak, Ned Shashoua, Maygret Ramirez, Ivis C. Gonzalez, Virginia Ramos, Anshul Saxena, Emir Veledar, Amy K. Starosciak, and Felipe De Los Rios De Los Rios La Rosa

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Hemiarthroplasty vs Total Hip Arthroplasty for Femoral Neck Fractures: 2010-2017 Trends in Complication Rates, Juan C. Suarez, William Arguelles, Anshul Saxena, Priscilla Rivera, Don Parris, and Emir Veledar

Faculty Publications from 2019

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Quantitative evaluation of skin shrinkage associated with non-invasive skin tightening: a simple method for reproducible linear measurement using microtattoos, Murad Alam, Marisa Pongprutthipan, Shivani Nanda, Natalie A. Kim, Jillian H. Swary, Wanjarus Roongpisuthipong, Arielle N. Kauvar, Alexandra Weil, Sanjana Iyengar, Brian R. Chen, Jelena Vasic, Amanda Maisel, Dennis P. West, Michael Nodzenksi, Emir Veledar, and Emily Poon

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Lipoprotein sub-fractions by ion-mobility analysis and its association with subclinical coronary atherosclerosis in high-risk individuals, Ehimen C. Aneni, Chukwuemeka U. Osondu, Javier De La Cruz, Seth S. Martin, Michael J. Blaha, Adnan Younus, Theodore Feldman, Arthur S. Agatston, Emir Veledar, and Khurram Nasir

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The Impact of Lifestyle Modification on Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Health-Care Employees With Type 2 Diabetes, Sankalp Das, Maribeth Rouseff, Henry E. Guzman, Chukwuemeka U. Osondu, Doris Brown, Brian Betancourt, Teresa Ochoa, Joseph Mora, Virginia Lehn, Shoshana B. Sherriff, Muni B. Rubens, Anshul Saxena, Khurram Nasir, and Emir Veledar

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Evaluation of the Inclusion of Studies Identified by the FDA as Having Falsified Data in the Results of Meta-analyses: The Example of the Apixaban Trials, Craig A. Garmendia, Liliana Nassar Gorra, Ana Lucia Rodriguez, Mary Jo Trepka, Emir Veledar, and Purnima Madhivanan

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Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Is Associated With Arterial Distensibility and Carotid Intima-Media Thickness: (from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis), Ebenezer Oni, Matthew J. Budoff, I. Zeb, Dong Li, Emir Veledar, Joseph F. Polak, Ron Blankstein, Nathan D. Wong, Michael J. Blaha, Arthur Agatston, Roger S. Blumenthal, and Khurram Nasir

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Prevalence of Cardiovascular Risk Factors among Cancer Patients in the United States, Muni Rubens, Sandeep Appunni, Venkataraghavan Ramamoorthy, Anshul Saxena, Sankalp Das, Chintan Bhatt, Belinda K. Boulanger, Ana Viamonte-Ros, and Emir Veledar

Stress myocardial perfusion pet provides incremental risk prediction in patients with and patients without diabetes, Hicham Skali, Marcelo F. Di Carli, Ron Blankstein, Benjamin J. Chow, Rob S. Beanlands, Daniel S. Berman, Guido Germano, James K. Min, Michael Merhige, Brent Williams, Emir Veledar, Leslee J. Shaw, and Sharmila Dorbala

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Assessing Skin Biopsy Rates for Histologic Findings Indicative of Nonpathological Cutaneous Disease, James A. Solomon, Michael Oswalt, Michael Nodzenski, Julie Glener, Matthew R. Schaeffer, Todd V. Cartee, Ian A. Maher, Joseph F. Sobanko, Abigail Waldman, Simon S. Yoo, Suzanna Lewis, Morgan Barr, Molly Marous, Brigitte Sledge, Jodi Kay Duke, April W. Armstrong, Emily Poon, Emir Veledar, Robert P. Dellavalle, and Murad Alam

Faculty Publications from 2018

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Effectiveness of low doses of hyaluronidase to remove hyaluronic acid filler nodules a randomized clinical trial, Murad Alam, Rosemara Hughart, Amelia Geisler, Kapila Paghdal, Amanda Maisel, Alexandra Weil, Dennis P. West, Emir Veledar, and Emily Poon

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Subcutaneous infiltration of carbon dioxide (carboxytherapy) for abdominal fat reduction: A randomized clinical trial, Murad Alam, Divya Sadhwani, Amelia Geisler, Imran Aslam, Inder Raj S. Makin, Daniel I. Schlessinger, Wareeporn Disphanurat, Marisa Pongprutthipan, Nataya Voravutinon, Alexandra Weil, Brian R. Chen, Dennis P. West, Emir Veledar, and Emily Poon

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Prognostic value of vasodilator response using rubidium-82 positron emission tomography myocardial perfusion imaging in patients with coronary artery disease, Punitha Arasaratnam, Masoud Sadreddini, Yeung Yam, Vinay Kansal, Sharmila Dorbala, Marcelo F. Di Carli, Rob S. Beanlands, Michael E. Merhige, Brent A. Williams, Emir Veledar, James K. Min, Li Chen, Terrence D. Ruddy, Guido Germano, Daniel S. Berman, Leslee J. Shaw, and Benjamin J.W. Chow

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Impact of Telemedicine on Mortality, Length of Stay, and Cost Among Patients in Progressive Care Units: Experience From a Large Healthcare System, Donna Lee Armaiqnac, Anshul Saxena, Muni Rubens, Carlos Valle, Lisa-Mae Williams, Emir Veledar, and Louis Gidel

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Racial disparities in fifth-grade sun protection: Evidence from the Healthy Passages study, Christina M. Correnti, David J. Klein, Marc N. Elliott, Emir Veledar, Mona Saraiya, Alyna T. Chien, David C. Schwebel, Sylvie Mrug, Susan R. Tortolero, Paula M. Cuccaro, Mark A. Schuster, and Suephy C. Chen

Is There an Age When Myocardial Perfusion Imaging May No Longer Be Prognostically Useful?, Fernanda Erthal, Alomgir Hossain, Sharmila Dorbala, Leslee J. Shaw, Marcelo F. Di Carli, Michael E. Merhige, Brent A. Williams, Emir Veledar, James K. Min, Daniel S. Berman, Robert A. deKemp, Rob S.B. Beanlands, and Benjamin J.W. Chow

Is diabetes mellitus equivalent to atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease from a healthcare cost perspective? Insights from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey: 2010-2013, David I. Feldman, Javier Valero-Elizondo, Joseph A. Salami, Jamal S. Rana, Oluseye Ogunmoroti, Victor Okunrintemi, Chukwuemeka U. Osondu, Erica S. Spatz, Salim S. Virani, Ron Blankstein, Michael J. Blaha, Emir Veledar, and Khurram Nasir

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Psychological Factors and Their Association with Ideal Cardiovascular Health among Women and Men, Lena Mathews, Oluseye Ogunmoroti, Khurram Nasir, Roger S. Blumenthal, Ovie A. Utuama, Maribeth Rouseff, Sankalp Das, Emir Veledar, Theodore Feldman, Arthur Agatston, Di Zhao, and Erin D. Michos

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Life's Simple 7 and the risk of atrial fibrillation: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis, Oluseye Ogunmoroti, Erin D. Michos, Konstantinos N. Aronis, Joseph A. Salami, Ron Blankstein, Salim S. Virani, Erica S. Spatz, Norrina B. Allen, Jamal S. Rana, Roger S. Blumenthal, Emir Veledar, Moyses Szklo, Michael J. Blaha, and Khurram Nasir

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Association between self-rated health and ideal cardiovascular health: The Baptist Health South Florida Employee Study, Oluseye Ogunmoroti, Ovie A. Utuama, Joseph A. Salami, Javier Valero-Elizondo, Erica S. Spatz, Maribeth Rouseff, Don Parris, Sankalp Das, Henry Guzman, Arthur Agatston, Theodore Feldman, Emir Veledar, Wasim Maziak, and Khurram Nasir

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The relationship of erectile dysfunction and subclinical cardiovascular disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis, Chukwuemeka U. Osondu, Bryan Vo, Ebenezer T. Oni, Michael J. Blaha, Emir Veledar, Theodore Feldman, Arthur S. Agatston, Khurram Nasir, and Ehimen C. Aneni

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Trends in diabetes-related preventable hospitalizations in the U.S., 2005-2014, Muni Rubens, Anshul Saxena, Venkataraghavan Ramamoorthy, Rohan Khera, Jonathan Hong, Emir Veledar, and Khurram Nasir

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10-Year Resource Utilization and Costs for Cardiovascular Care, Leslee J. Shaw, Abhinav Goyal, Christina Mehta, Joe Xie, Lawrence Phillips, Anita Kelkar, Joseph Knapper, Daniel S. Berman, Khurram Nasir, Emir Veledar, Michael J. Blaha, Roger Blumenthal, James K. Min, Reza Fazel, Peter W.F. Wilson, and Matthew J. Budoff

Faculty Publications from 2017

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Estimates of Mortality Benefit From Ideal Cardiovascular Health Metrics: A Dose Response Meta‐Analysis, Ehimen C. Aneni, Alessio Crippa, Chukwuemeka U. Osondu, Javier Valero‐Elizondo, Adnan Younus, Khurram Nasir, and Emir Veledar

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Economic Evaluation of PCSK9 Inhibitors in Reducing Cardiovascular Risk from Health System and Private Payer Perspectives, Alejandro Arrieta, Timothy Page, Emir Veledar, and Khurram Nasir

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Association of Subjective and Objective Sleep Duration as well as Sleep Quality with Non-Invasive Markers of Sub-Clinical Cardiovascular Disease (CVD): A Systematic Review, Muhammad Aziz, Shozab S. Ali, Sankalp Das, Adnan Younus, Rehan Malik, Muhammad A. Latif, Choudhry Humayun, Dixitha Anugula, Ghulam Abbas, Joseph Salami, Javier Valero Elizondo, Emir Veledar, and Khurram Nasir

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Effect of Thyroxin Treatment on Carotid Intima – Media Thickness (CIMT) Reduction in Patients with Subclinical Hypothyroidism (SCH): a Meta-Analysis of Clinical Trials, Muhammad Aziz, Yugandhar Kandimalla, Archana Machavarapu, Anshul Saxena, Sankalp Das, Adnan Younus, Michelle Nguyen, Rehan Malik, Dixitha Anugula, Muhammad A. Latif, Choudhry Humayun, Idrees M. Khan, Ali Adus, Aisha Rasool, Emir Veledar, and Khurram Nasir

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Cocaine Use and Liver Disease are Associated with All-Cause Mortality in the Miami Adult Studies in HIV (MASH) Cohort, Adriana Campa, Sabrina Sales Martinez, Kenneth E. Sherman, Joe Pedro Greer, Yinghui Li, Stephanie Garcia, Tiffanie Stewart, Boubakari Ibrahimou, O. Dale Williams, and Marianna K. Baum

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Life's Simple 7 and Incident Heart Failure: The Multi‐Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis, Oluseye Ogunmoroti, Ebenezer Oni, Erin D. Michos, Erica S. Spatz, Norrina B. Allen, Kaiser Permanente Northern California; University of California, Salim S. Virani, Ron Blankstein, Konstantinos N. Aronis, Roger S. Blumenthal, Emir Veledar, Moyses Szklo, Michael J. Blaha, and Khurram Nasir

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Association Between Modifiable Risk Factors and Pharmaceutical Expenditures Among Adults With Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease in the United States: 2012–2013 Medical Expenditures Panel Survey, Joseph A. Salami, Javier Valero‐Elizondo, Oluseye Ogunmoroti, Erica S. Spatz, Jamal S. Rana, Salim S. Virani, Ron Blankenstein, Adnan Younus, Alejandro Arrieta, Michael J. Blaha, Emir Veledar, and Khurram Nasir

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Favorable cardiovascular risk factor profile is associated with lower healthcare expenditure and resource utilization among adults with diabetes mellitus free of established cardiovascular disease: 2012 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), Javier Valero-Elizondo, Joseph Salami, Oluseye Ogunmoroti, Emeka Osondu, Emir Veledar, and Khurram Nasir

Faculty Publications from 2016

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Plasmodium falciparum Infection Status among Children with Schistosoma in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis, Abraham Degarege, Dawit Degarege, Emir Veledar, Berhanu Erko, Mathieu Nacher, Consuelo Beck Sague, and Purnima Madhivanan

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Maternal health care seeking behavior: the case of Haor (wetland) in Bangladesh, Aminul Haque, Surjya Kanta Dash, and Muhammad Abdul Baker Chowdhury

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Nitric Oxide Contributes to Vasomotor Tone in Hypertensive African Americans Treated With Nebivolol and Metoprolol, Robert B. Neuman, Salim Hayek, Joseph C. Poole, Ayaz Rahman, Vivek Menon, Nino Kavtaradze, David Polhemus, Emir Veledar, David J. Lefer, and Arshed A. Quyyumi

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Association Between Life's Simple 7 and Noncardiovascular Disease: The Multi‐Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis, Oluseye Ogunmoroti, Norrina B. Allen, Mary Cushman, Erin D. Michos, Tatjana Rundek, Jamal S. Rana, Ron Blankenstein, Roger S. Blumenthal, Michael J. Blaha, Emir Veledar, and Khurram Nasir

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Response to letter regarding article by Patel et al: A Novel Biomarker of Oxidative Stress is Associated with Risk of Death in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease, Riyaz S. Patel, Nima Ghasemzadeh, Danny J. Eapen, Salman Sher, Shawn Arshad, Yian Ko, Emir Veledar, Habib Samady, A. Maziar Zafari, Laurence Sperling, Viola Vaccarino, Dean P. Jones, and Arshed A. Quyyumi

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Rationale and design of the Baptist Employee Healthy Heart Study: a randomized trial assessing the efficacy of the addition of an interactive, personalized, web-based, lifestyle intervention tool to an existing health information web platform in a high-risk employee population, Janisse M. Post, Shozab S. Ali, Lara L. Roberson, Ehimen C. Aneni, Sameer Shaharyar, Adnan Younus, Omar Jamal, Rameez Ahmad, Muhammad A. Aziz, Rehan Malik, Erica S. Spatz, Theodore Feldman, Jonathan Fialkow, Emir Veledar, Ricardo C. Cury, Arthur S. Agatston, and Khurram Nasir

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Estrogenic Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals Influencing NRF1 Regulated Gene Networks in the Development of Complex Human Brain Diseases, Mark Preciados, Changwon Yoo, and Deodutta Roy

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Economic Impact of Moderate‐Vigorous Physical Activity Among Those With and Without Established Cardiovascular Disease: 2012 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, Javier Valero‐Elizondo, Joseph A. Salami, Chukwuemeka U. Osondu, Oluseye Ogunmoroti, Alejandro Arrieta, Erica S. Spatz, Adnan Younus, Jamal S. Rana, Salim S. Virani, Ron Blankenstein, Michael J. Blaha, Emir Veledar, and Khurram Nasir

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A ten-year comparison of women authorship in U.S. dermatology literature, 1999 vs. 2009, Shali Zhang, Ha-Young Kim, Rachel E.S. Hill, Emir Veledar, and Suephy C. Chen

Faculty Publications from 2015

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Type 2 diabetes and its correlates among adults in Bangladesh: a population based stud, Muhammad Abdul Baker Chowdhury, MD Jamal Uddin, Hafiz M.R. Khan, and MD Rabiul Haque

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Genetic Associations of PPARGC1A with Type 2 Diabetes: Differences among Populations with African Origins, Amanpreet K. Cheema, Tan Li, Juan P. Liuzzi, Gustavo G. Zarini, Mehmet T. Dorak, and Fatma G. Huffman

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Previous Preterm Birth and Current Maternal Complications as a Risk Factor of Subsequent Stillbirth, Boubakari Ibrahimou, Cynthia Anozie, Cara de la Cruz, and Hamisu Salihu

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Infant mortality in twin pregnancies following in-utero demise of the co-twin, Boubakari Ibrahimou, Hamisu M. Salihu, Muktar H. Aliyu, Gary English, and Getachew Dagne

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Waterpipe a gateway to cigarette smoking initiation among adolescents in Irbid, Jordan: a longitudinal study, Rana Jaber, Purnima Madhivanan, Emir Veledar, Y. Khader, F. Mzayek, and Wasim Maziak

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Impact of Donor Lung Gram Stain on Post-Transplant Pneumonia and Mortality: More Lungs Can Be Used to Save Lives, Sher Ali Khan, Emir Veledar, Cathy Logan, Sanjay Mehta, Gordon Yung, and Saima Aslam

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A Novel Biomarker of Oxidative Stress is Associated with Risk of Death in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease, Riyaz S. Patel, Nima Ghasemzadeh, Danny J. Eapen, Salman Sher, Shawn Arshad, Yi-an Ko, Emir Veledar, Habib Samady, A. Maziar Zafari, Laurence Sperling, and Viola Vaccarino

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Circulating CD34+ Progenitor Cells and Risk of Mortality in a Population with Coronary Artery Disease, Riyaz S. Patel, Qunna Li, Nima Ghasemzadeh, Danny J. Eapen, Lauren D. Moss, A. Umair Janjua, Pankaj Manocha, Hatem Al Kassem, Emir Veledar, Habib Samady, W. Robert Taylor, A. Maziar Zafari, Laurence Sperling, Viola Vaccarino, Edmund Waller, and Arshed A. Quyyumi

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Logic regression-derived algorithms for syndromic management of vaginal infections, Sujit D. Rathod, Tan Li, Jeffery D. Klausner, Alan Hubbard, Arthur L. Reingold, and Purnima Madhivanan

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The benefits of inositol-stabilized arginine silicate as a workout ingredient, S. Rood-Ojalvo, D. Sandler, Emir Veledar, and J. Komorowski

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Integrated Bioinformatics, Environmental Epidemiologic and Genomic Approaches to Identify Environmental and Molecular Links between Endometriosis and Breast Cancer, Deodutta Roy, Marisa L. Morgan, Changwon Yoo, Alok Deoraj, Sandhya Roy, Vijay Kumar Yadav, Mohannad Garoub, Hamza Assaggaf, and Mayur Doke

Faculty Publications from 2014

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Circadian Variation in Vascular Function and Regenerative Capacity in Healthy Humans, Ibhar Al Mheid, Frank Corrigan, Farheen Shirazi, Emir Veledar, Qunna Li, Wayne R. Alexander, W. Robert Taylor, Edmund K. Waller, and Arshed A. Quyyumi

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Consulting Communities When Patients Cannot Consent: A Multi-Center Study of Community Consultation for Research in Emergency Settings, Neal W. Dickert, Victoria A. Mah, Michellle H. Biros, Deneil M. Harney, Robert Silbergleit, Jeremy Sugarman, Emir Veledar, Kevin P. Weinfurt, David W. Wright, and Rebecca D. Pentz

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Soluble Urokinase Plasminogen Activator Receptor Level Is an Independent Predictor of the Presence and Severity of Coronary Artery Disease and of Future Adverse Events, Danny J. Eapen, Pankaj Manocha, Nima Ghasemzadeh, Riyaz S. Patel, Hatem Al Kassem, Muhammad Hammadah, Emir Veledar, Ngoc-Anh Le, Tomasz Pielak, Christian W. Thorball, Aristea Velegraki, Dimitrios T. Kremastinos, Stamatios lerakis, Laurence Sperling, and Arshed A. Quyyumi

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Oxidative Stress is Associated with Increased Pulmonary Artery Systolic Pressure in Humans, Nima Ghasemzadeh, Riyaz S. Patel, Danny J. Eapen, Emir Veledar, Hatem Al Kassem, Pankaj Manocha, Mohamed Khayata, A. Maziar Zafari, Laurence Sperling, Dean P. Jones, and Arshed A. Quyyumi

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Cigarette smoking worsens systemic inflammation in persons with metabolic syndrome, Omar Jamal, Ehimen C. Aneni, Sameer Shaharyar, Shozab S. Ali, Don Parris, John W. McEvoy, Emir Veledar, Michael J. Blaha, Roger S. Blumenthal, Arthur Agatston, Raquel D. Conceicao, Theodore Feldman, Jose A. Carvalho, Raul D. Santos, and Khurram Nasir

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Inferential Statistics from Black Hispanic Breast Cancer Survival Data, Hafiz M.R. Khan, Anshul Saxena, Elizabeth Ross, Venkataraghavan Ramamoorthy, and Diana Sheehan

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Qualitative assessment of Tongue Drive System by people with high-level spinal cord injury, Jeonghee Kim, Hangue Park, Joy Bruce, Diane Rowles, Jaimee Holbrook, Beatrice Nardone, Dennis P. West, Anne E. Laumann, Elliot Roth, Emir Veledar, and Maysam Ghovanloo

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Factors Influencing Nonabsolute Indications for Surgery in Patients With Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms Suggestive of Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia: Analysis Using Causal Bayesian Networks, Myong Kim, Luis Ramirez, Changwon Yoo, Minsoo Choo, Jae-Seung Paick, and Seung-June Oh

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Association Between Ideal Cardiovascular Health and Carotid Intima-Media Thickness: A Twin Study, Ambar Kulshreshtha, Abhinav Goyal, Emir Veledar, William McClellan, Suzanne Judd, Silvia C. Eufinger, J. Douglas Bremner, Jack Goldberg, and Viola Vaccarino

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Endothelial dysfunction is associated with occult coronary artery disease detected by positron emission tomography, Ambar Kulshreshtha, Yan Zheng, Arshed A. Quyyumi, Emir Veledar, John Votaw, Irina Uphoff, J. Douglas Bremmer, Jack Goldberg, and Viola Vaccarino

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ItchyQoL Bands: Pilot Clinical Interpretation of Scores, Elyse M. Love, Gerardo A. Marrazzo, Seema Kini, Emir Veledar, and Suephy C. Chen

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Large-Scale Genome-Wide Association Studies and Meta-Analyses of Longitudinal Change in Adult Lung Function, Wenbo Tang, Matthew Kowgier, Daan W. Loth, Maria Soler Artigas, Bonnie R. Joubert, Emily Hodge, Sina A. Gharib, Albert V. Smith, Ingo Ruczinski, Vilmundur Gudnason, Rasika A. Mathias, Tamara B. Harris, Nadia N. Hansel, Lenore J. Launer, Kathleen C. Barnes, Joyanna G. Hansen, and O. Dale Williams

Faculty Publications from 2013

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Aggregate Risk Score Based on Markers of Inflammation, Cell Stress, and Coagulation Is an Independent Predictor of Adverse Cardiovascular Outcomes, Danny J. Eapen, Pankaj Manocha, Riyaz S. Patel, Muhammad Hammadah, Emir Veledar, Christina Wassel, Ravi A. Nanjundappa, Sergey Sikora, Dylan Malayter, Peter W.F. Wilson, Laurence Sperling, Arshed A. Quyyumi, and Stephen E. Epstein