Allostatic load predicts racial disparities in intracerebral hemorrhage cognitive outcomes.

Link: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-20987-x Authors: Harris, Jennifer; Boehme, Amelia; Chan, Luisa; Moats, Harmon; Dugue, Rachelle; Izeogu, Chigozirim; Pavol, Marykay A; Naqvi, Imama A; Williams, Olajide; Marshall, Randolph S Abstract: A large portion of stroke disparities remains unexplained, even after adjusting for demographic, comorbidity, and health care access variables. There is a critical need to close this knowledge…

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Human WDR5 promotes breast cancer growth and metastasis via KMT2-independent translation regulation.

Link: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.78163 Authors: Cai, Wesley L; Chen, Jocelyn Fang-Yi; Chen, Huacui; Wingrove, Emily; Kurley, Sarah J; Chan, Lok Hei; Zhang, Meiling; Arnal-Estape, Anna; Zhao, Minghui; Balabaki, Amer; Li, Wenxue; Yu, Xufen; Krop, Ethan D; Dou, Yali; Liu, Yansheng; Jin, Jian; Westbrook, Thomas F; Nguyen, Don X; Yan, Qin Abstract: Metastatic breast cancer remains a major…

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Enhancing convolutional neural network predictions of electrocardiograms with left ventricular dysfunction using a novel sub-waveform representation.

Link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cvdhj.2022.07.074 Authors: Honarvar, Hossein; Agarwal, Chirag; Somani, Sulaiman; Vaid, Akhil; Lampert, Joshua; Wanyan, Tingyi; Reddy, Vivek Y; Nadkarni, Girish N; Miotto, Riccardo; Zitnik, Marinka; Wang, Fei; Glicksberg, Benjamin S Abstract: Electrocardiogram (ECG) deep learning (DL) has promise to improve the outcomes of patients with cardiovascular abnormalities. In ECG DL, researchers often use convolutional neural…

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Automated Determination of Left Ventricular Function Using Electrocardiogram Data in Patients on Maintenance Hemodialysis.

Link: https://doi.org/10.2215/CJN.16481221 Authors: Vaid, Akhil; Jiang, Joy J; Sawant, Ashwin; Singh, Karandeep; Kovatch, Patricia; Charney, Alexander W; Charytan, David M; Divers, Jasmin; Glicksberg, Benjamin S; Chan, Lili; Nadkarni, Girish N Abstract: Left ventricular ejection fraction is disrupted in patients on maintenance hemodialysis and can be estimated using deep learning models on electrocardiograms. Smaller sample sizes…

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Insights From a Large-Scale Whole-Genome Sequencing Study of Systolic Blood Pressure, Diastolic Blood Pressure, and Hypertension.

Link: https://doi.org/10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.122.19324 Authors: Kelly, Tanika N; Sun, Xiao; He, Karen Y; Brown, Michael R; Taliun, Sarah A Gagliano; Hellwege, Jacklyn N; Irvin, Marguerite R; Mi, Xuenan; Brody, Jennifer A; Franceschini, Nora; Guo, Xiuqing; Hwang, Shih-Jen; de Vries, Paul S; Gao, Yan; Moscati, Arden; Nadkarni, Girish N; Yanek, Lisa R; Elfassy, Tali; Smith, Jennifer A; Chung,…

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Design and rationale of GUARDD-US: A pragmatic, randomized trial of genetic testing for APOL1 and pharmacogenomic predictors of antihypertensive efficacy in patients with hypertension.

Link: https://doi.org/S1551-7144(22)00139-2 Authors: Eadon, Michael T; Cavanaugh, Kerri L; Orlando, Lori A; Christian, David; Chakraborty, Hrishikesh; Steen-Burrell, Kady-Ann; Merrill, Peter; Seo, Janet; Hauser, Diane; Singh, Rajbir; Beasley, Cherry Maynor; Fuloria, Jyotsna; Kitzman, Heather; Parker, Alexander S; Ramos, Michelle; Ong, Henry H; Elwood, Erica N; Lynch, Sheryl E; Clermont, Sabrina; Cicali, Emily J; Starostik, Petr; Pratt,…

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Hispanic ethnicity and mortality among critically ill patients with COVID-19.

Link: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0268022 Authors: Ricardo, Ana C; Chen, Jinsong; Toth-Manikowski, Stephanie M; Meza, Natalie; Joo, Min; Gupta, Shruti; Lazarous, Deepa G; Leaf, David E; Lash, James P; , Abstract: Hispanic persons living in the United States (U.S.) are at higher risk of infection and death from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) compared with non-Hispanic persons. Whether this…

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Genome-first recall of healthy individuals by polygenic risk score reveals differences in coronary artery calcium.

Link: https://doi.org/S0002-8703(22)00081-3 Authors: Forrest, Iain S; Chan, Lili; Chaudhary, Kumardeep; Saha, Aparna; Wen, Huei Hsun; Cepin, Cristina Liriano; Marquez-Luna, Carla; Rocheleau, Ghislain; Cho, Judy; Narula, Jagat; Nadkarni, Girish N; Do, Ron Abstract: Genetic risk for coronary artery disease (CAD) is commonly measured with polygenic risk scores (PRS); yet, the relationship of atherosclerotic burden with PRS…

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Association of Uremic Solutes With Cardiovascular Death in Diabetic Kidney Disease.

Link: https://doi.org/S0272-6386(22)00577-7 Authors: Sapa, Hima; Gutiérrez, Orlando M; Shlipak, Michael G; Katz, Ronit; Ix, Joachim H; Sarnak, Mark J; Cushman, Mary; Rhee, Eugene P; Kimmel, Paul L; Vasan, Ramachandran S; Schrauben, Sarah J; Feldman, Harold I; Seegmiller, Jesse C; Brunengraber, Henri; Hostetter, Thomas H; Schelling, Jeffrey R; , Abstract: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a major…

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Electroencephalography at the height of a pandemic: EEG findings in patients with COVID-19.

Link: https://doi.org/S1388-2457(22)00190-0 Authors: Tantillo, Gabriela B; Jetté, Nathalie; Gururangan, Kapil; Agarwal, Parul; Marcuse, Lara; Singh, Anuradha; Goldstein, Jonathan; Kwon, Churl-Su; Dhamoon, Mandip S; Navis, Allison; Nadkarni, Girish N; Charney, Alexander W; Young, James J; Blank, Leah J; Fields, Madeline; Yoo, Ji Yeoun Abstract: To characterize continuous video electroencephalogram (VEEG) findings of hospitalized COVID-19 patients. We…

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