ABC MEMBER PUBLICATION LIST (July to February 2019 – updated monthly)

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FEBRUARY 2019

History and Justification of a National Blood Pressure Measurement Validated Device Listing

Co-authored by Domenic A. Sica (Jordana B. Cohen , Raj S. Padwal , Michael Gutkin, Beverly B. Green, Michael J. Bloch, F. Wilford Germino, Anthony J. Viera, Benjamin M. Bluml, William B. White, Sandra J. Taler, Steven Yarows, Daichi Shimbo, Raymond R. Townsend)

Hypertension. 2019 Feb;73(2):258-264. doi: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.118.11990.

Neighborhood poverty and hemodynamic, neuroendocrine, and immune response to acute stress among patients with coronary artery disease

Co-authored by Tené T. Lewis (with Samaah Sullivan, Heval M. Kelli, Muhammad Hammadah, Matthew Topel, Kobina Wilmot, Ronnie Ramadan, Brad D. Pearce, Amit Shah, Bruno B. Lima, Jeong Hwan Kim, Shakia Hardy, Oleksiy Levantsevych, Malik Obideen, Belal Kaseer, Laura Ward, Michael Kutner, Allison Hankus, Yi-An Ko, Michael R. Kramer, J. Douglas Bremner, Arshed Quyyumi and Viola Vaccarino) Psychoneuroendocrinology, Volume 100, February 2019, Pages 145-155

JANUARY 2019

Cigarette Smoking and Subclinical Peripheral Arterial Disease in Blacks of the Jackson Heart Study

Co-authored by Rose M. Robertson (with Donald Clark III, Loretta R. Cain, Michael J. Blaha, Andrew P. DeFilippis, Robert J. Mentz, Daisuke Kamimura, Wendy B. White, Kenneth R. Butler, Aruni Bhatnagar, Javed Butler, Adolfo Correa, Emelia J. Benjamin and Michael E. Hall)

Journal of the American Heart Association. Originally published 23 Jan 2019

Electronic health record access by patients as an indicator of information seeking and sharing for cardiovascular health promotion in social networks: Secondary analysis of a randomized clinical trial

Co-authored by Sherry-Ann N.Brown (with Hayan Jouni and Iftikhar J. Kullo)

Preventive Medicine Reports, Available online 14 January 2019, open access, In Press, Accepted Manuscript

Characteristics of Acute Heart Failure Hospitalizations Based on Presenting Severity: Findings From the Get With the Guidelines–Heart Failure Registry

Co-authored by Clyde W. Yancy and Gregg C. Fonarow (with Kishan S. Parikh, Shubin Sheng, Bradley G. Hammill, Adrian F. Hernandez and Adam D. DeVore)

Circulation: Heart Failure. 2019 Jan;12(1):e005171. doi: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.118.005171.

DECEMBER 2018

Achieving Health Equity by Normalizing Cardiac Care

Co-authored by Cheryl Pegus (with Ian Duncan, Judy Greener, Juan F. Granada, and Tamim Ahmed)

Health Equity. 2018 Dec 28;2(1):404-411. doi: 10.1089/heq.2018.0067. eCollection 2018.

Association Between Sleep Apnea and Blood Pressure Control Among Blacks: Jackson Heart Sleep Study

Co-authored by Marwah Abdalla (with Dayna A. Johnson , S. Justin Thomas , Na Guo, Yuichiro Yano, Michael Rueschman, Rikki M. Tanner, Murray A. Mittleman, David A. Calhoun, James G. Wilson, Paul Muntner, and Susan Redline)

Circulation. Originally published 10 Dec 2018

Association of Cardiac Injury and Malignant Left Ventricular Hypertrophy With Risk of Heart Failure in African Americans (The Jackson Heart Study)

Co-authored by Alana Lewis, Carlos J. Rodriguez, and Ervin R. Fox (with Ambarish Pandey, Neil Keshvani, Colby Ayers, Adolfo Correa, Mark H. Drazner, Michael E. Hall, Robert J. Mentz, Christopher deFilippi, Stephen L. Seliger, Christie M. Ballantyne, Ian J. Neeland, James A. de Lemos, and Jarett D. Berry)

JAMA Cardiology. Published online December 19, 2018. doi:10.1001/jamacardio.2018.4300

Comparative survival and role of STS score in aortic paravalvular leak after SAVR or TAVR: a retrospective study from the USA

Co-authored by Vuyisile T. Nkomo (with Ratnasari Padang, Mahmoud Ali, Kevin L. Greason, Christopher G. Scott, Manasawee Indrabhinduwat, Charanjit S. Rihal, Mackram F. Eleid, Patricia A. Pellikka, and Sorin V. Pislaru)

BMJ Open. 2018 Dec 9;8(12):e022437. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-022437

NOVEMBER 2018

Racial Disparities in Patient Characteristics and Survival After Acute Myocardial Infarction

Lead author Garth N. Graham, MD, MPH (with Philip G. Jones, MS; Paul S. Chan, MD, MSc; et al

JAMA Network Open. November 2018;1(7):e184240.

Underrepresented Minorities and Academic Difficulty During Family Medicine Residency: No Association?

Co-authored by José E. Rodríguez MD (with Klive Forde, MD)

Family Medicine. November 2018;50(10):789-789.

OCTOBER 2018

Do Teaching-Focused Medical Schools Perpetuate the Thinking That Black Faculty Should Not Be Researchers?

Co-authored by José E. Rodríguez (with Cassandra Acheampong and Kendall M. Campbell)

Southern Medical Journal. 2018 Oct;111(10):638. doi: 10.14423/SMJ.0000000000000866.

Mentoring Underrepresented Minority in Medicine (URMM) Students Across Racial, Ethnic and Institutional Differences

Co-authored by José E. Rodríguez MD (with Kendall M. Campbell, MD)

Journal of National Medical Association. 2018 Oct;110(5):421-423. doi: 10.1016/j.jnma.2017.09.004. Epub 2017 Nov 6.

Racism Education is Needed at All Levels of Training

Co-authored by José E. Rodríguez MD (with Judy C. Washington, MD)

Family Medicine. October 2018;50(9):711-712.

Number of Measurements Needed to Obtain a Reliable Estimate of Home Blood Pressure: Results From the Improving the Detection of Hypertension Study

Co-authored by D. Edmund Anstey, MD, MPH (with Natalie A. Bello, MD, MPH; Joseph E. Schwartz, PhD; Ian M. Kronish, MD, MPH; Suzanne Oparil, MD; Ying Wei, PhD; Ying Kuen K. Cheung, PhD; Paul Muntner, PhD; and Daichi Shimbo, MD)

Journal of the American Heart Association. October 2018; 7:e008658

Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial of FAITH (Faith-Based Approaches in the Treatment of Hypertension) in Blacks

Co-authored by Gbenga Ogedegbe (with Antoinette M. Schoenthaler, Kristie J. Lancaster, William Chaplin, Mark Butler, Jessica Forsyth_

Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes. Originally published Oct 2018.

Associated editorial: Of Barbershops and Churches Can Community-Based Interventions Improve Cardiovascular Risk in High-Risk Patients?

Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, October 2018. Reprinted Wall Street Journal, Oct 9

SEPTEMBER 2018

Transcatheter aortic valve insertion in patients with hostile ascending aorta calcification

Co-authored by Vuyisile T. Nkomo (with Akio Nakasu, MD, Kevin L. Greason, MD, Mackram F. Eleid, MD, Alberto Pochettino, MD, Katherine S. King, MS, Gurpreet S. Sandhu, MD, PhD, Eric E. Williamson, MD, David R. Holmes, MD)

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 2018 September; 156(3):1028-1034. doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2018.03.125

Diagnosing Masked Hypertension Using Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring, Home Blood Pressure Monitoring, or Both?

Co-authored by D. Edmund Anstey, MD, MPH (with Paul Muntner, Natalie A. Bello, Daniel N. Pugliese, Yuichiro Yano, Ian M. Kronish, Kristi Reynolds, Joseph E. Schwartz, and Daichi Shimbo)

Hypertension. September 2018;72:1200–1207

Heart Centers for Women: Historical Perspective on Formation and Future Strategies to Reduce Cardiovascular Disease

Co-authored by Jennifer Mieres (with Gina P. Lundberg, Laxmi S. Mehta, Rupa M. Sanghani, Hena N. Patel, Niti R. Aggarwal, Neelum T. Aggarwal, Lynne T. Braun, Sandra J. Lewis, Malissa J. Wood, Robert A. Harrington and Annabelle S. Volgman)

Circulation. September 2018; 138:1155–1165

AUGUST 2018

Risk Factors Influencing Outcomes of Atrial Fibrillation in ALLHAT

Co-authored by L. Julian Haywood and Jackson T. Wright Jr. for the ALLHAT Collaborative Research Group (with Barry R. Davis, Linda B. Piller, M.D., M.P.H., Lara M. Simpson, Ph.D., Alokananda Ghosh, M.D., M.S., Paula T. Einhorn, M.D., M.S., Charles E. Ford, Ph.D., Jeffrey L. Probstfield, M.D., Elsayed Z. Soliman, M.D., M.Sc., M.S.)

Journal of the National Medical Association, August 2018, Volume 110, Issue 4, 343 – 351

Coronary endothelial function and spontaneous coronary artery dissection

Co-authored by Sharonne N. Hayes (with Thomas M. Waterbury, Marysia S. Tweet, Abhiram Prasad, Amir Lerman, and Rajiv Gulati)

European Heart Journal: Acute Cardiovascular Care, August 2018

Comparison of Effectiveness of Azilsartan Medoxomil and Olmesartan in Blacks Versus Whites With Systemic Hypertension

By Keith C Ferdinand (with Bakris GL, Cushman WC, Weber MA, Lloyd E, Wu J, White WB.)

American Journal of Cardiology, 2018 August. pii: S0002-9149(18)31494-2. doi: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2018.07.022.

Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial to Reduce Readmission for Heart Failure Using Novel Tablet and Nurse Practitioner Education

Co-authored by Khadijah Breathett, MD, MS and Veronica Franco, MD, (with Scott Maffett, MD; Randi E. Foraker, PhD; Rod Sturdivant, PhD; Kristina Moon, DO; Ayesha Hasan, MD; Sakima Smith, MD, MPH; Brent C. Lampert, DO; Sitaramesh Emani, MD; Garrie Haas, MD; Rami Kahwash, MD; Ray E. Hershberger, MD; Philip F. Binkley, MD, MPH; Laura Helmkamp, MS; Kathryn Colborn, PhD; Pamela N. Peterson, MD, MSPH; Nancy Sweitzer, MD, PhD; and William T. Abraham, MD)

American Journal of Medicine, August 2018, Volume 131, Issue 8, 974 – 978

Association of Variants in BAG3 With Cardiomyopathy Outcomes in African American Individuals

Co-authored by Dennis M. McNamara, MD; Jeffrey D. Alexis, MD; Anne L. Taylor, MD; and Clyde W. Yancy, MD, MSc (with Valerie D. Myers, MS; Glenn S. Gerhard, MD; Dhanendra Tomar, PhD; Muniswamy Madesh, PhD; Scott Kaniper, BS; Frederick V. Ramsey, PhD; Susan G. Fisher, PhD; Roxann G. Ingersoll, MHS6; Laura Kasch-Semenza, BA; JuFang Wang, MD5; Karen Hanley-Yanez, BS; Bonnie Lemster, MPH; Jessica A. Schwisow, BS; Amrut V. Ambardekar, MD; Seta H. Degann, MS; Michael R. Bristow, MD, PhD; Richard Sheppard, MD; Douglas G. Tilley, PhD; Christopher D. Kontos, MD; Joseph M. McClung, PhD; Kamel Khalili, PhD; Jonathan G. Seidman, PhD; Christine E. Seidman, MD; Charles F. McTiernan, PhD; Joseph Y. Cheung, MD, PhD; Arthur M. Feldman, MD, PhD.)

AMA Cardiology. Published online August 2018.

Research Participation of a Professional Organization in Clinical Trials: The Association of Black cardiologists Clinical Trial Investigator Identification Project

Co-authored by Larry R. Jackson II, MD, Wayne B. Batchelor, MD, MHS, and Kevin L. Thomas, MD, (with Chidiebube C. Egwim, MD, MPH, Alvin J. Rucker, MPH, Deng C. Madut, MD, Goderfroy S. Chery, MD, MS, and Lonnie T. Sullivan II, BS)

Journal of the National Medical Association, Published online: August 2018

Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction Expert Panel Report: Current Controversies and Implications for Clinical Trials

Co-authored by Patrice Desvigne-Nickens, MD (with Kishan S.Parikh, MD, Kavita Sharma, MD, Mona Fiuzat PharmD Howard K.Surks MD Jyothis T. George MD Narimon Honarpour MD, PhD Christopher Depre MD, PhD, Richard Nkulikiyinka MD, Gregory D. Lewis MD, Mardi Gomberg-Maitland, MD, MSc, Christopher M. O’Connor MD Norman Stockbridge MD, Robert M. Califf MD, Marvin A. Konstam MD, James L. Januzzi, Jr. MD, Scott D.Solomon MD Barry A. Borlaug MD Sanjiv J. Shah MD Margaret M. Redfield MD G. Michael Felker MD)

JACC Heart Failure. 2018 August; 6(8):619-632. doi: 10.1016/j.jchf.2018.06.008.

Special Issue: Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF)

Journal of the American College of Cardiology: Heart Failure Expert Scientific Panel

Clinical outcomes of Β-blocker therapy in cocaine-associated heart failure

Co-authored by Tuoyo Mene-Afejuku, MD, FWACP (with Persio D. Lopez, Adedoyin Akinlonu, Carissa Dumancas, Mohammed Saeed, Eder H. Cativo, Ferdinand Visco, Savi Mushiyev and Gerald Pekler)

International Journal of Cardiology. 2018 August.

JULY 2018

A Clinician’s Guide for Trending Cardiovascular Nutrition Controversies

Co-authored by Kim A. Williams and Travis Batts (with Andrew M. Freeman, Pamela B. Morris, Karen Aspry, Neil F. Gordon, Neal D. Barnard, Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Emilio Ros, Stephen Devries, James O’Keefe, Michael Miller, Dean Ornish, Robert J. Ostfeld, Sheldon Litwin, Monica Aggarwal, Andrea Werner, Kathleen Allen, Beth White, and Penny Kris-Etherton)

Journal of the American College of Cardiology July 2018, 72 (5) 553-568; DOI:10.1016/j.jacc.2018.05.030

Novel Interventions in Addressing Racial Disparities in Blood Pressure Control: Potential Utilization of Barbershops in Black Men

By Keith Ferdinand, MD

Circulation, July 2018, Vol 138, Issue 4 (Editor’s Picks July/August 2018)

Coronary Calcium Score and Cardiovascular Risk

Co-authored by Karol E. Watson and Matthew J. Budoff (with Philip Greenland, Michael J. Blaha, and Raimund Erbel)

Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Volume 72, Issue 4. July 2018

Aspirin-free strategies in cardiovascular disease and cardioembolic stroke prevention

Co-authored by Roxana Mehran (with Davide Capodanno, Marco Valgimigli, Usman Baber, Stephan Windecker, Pascal Vranckx, George Dangas, Fabiana Rollini, Takeshi Kimura, Jean-Philippe Collet, C. Michael Gibson, Philippe Gabriel Steg, Renato D. Lopes, Hyeon-Cheol Gwon, Robert F. Storey, Francesco Franchi, Deepak L. Bhatt, Patrick W. Serruys & Dominick J. Angiolillo)

Nature Reviews Cardiology. Published: July 2018

Linking Education to Action: A Program to Increase Research Participation Among African American Women

Co-authored by Sharonne N. Hayes (with Carmen Radecki Breitkopf, Karen Patricia Williams, Jennifer L. Ridgeway, Monica W. Parker, Alice Strong-Simmons and Michele Y. Halyard)

Journal of Women’s Health. Published Online: July 2018

#Me_Who Anatomy of Scholastic, Leadership, and Social Isolation of Underrepresented Minority Women in Academic Medicine

by Michelle A. Albert, MD, MPH

Circulation, July 2018, Vol 138, Issue 5

Temporal Trends in Contemporary Use of Ventricular Assist Devices by Race and Ethnicity

Khadijah Breathett (with Larry A. Allen, Laura Helmkamp, Kathryn Colborn, Stacie L. Daugherty, Irene V. Blair, Jacqueline Jones, Prateeti Khazanie, Sula Mazimba, Marylyn McEwen, Jeff Stone, Elizabeth Calhoun, Nancy K. Sweitzer and Pamela N. Peterson)

Circulation: Heart Failure. July 2018

Cardiovascular outcomes during extended follow-up of the AIM-HIGH trial cohort

Co-authored by Patrice Desvigne-Nickens, MD (with Jeffrey L. Probstfield, MD, William E. Boden, MD, Todd Anderson, MD, Kelley Branch, MD, MS, Moti Kashyap, MD, Jerome L. Fleg, MD, Ruth McBride, and Mark McGovern, MD, On behalf of the AIM-HIGH Investigators)

Journal of Clinical Lipidology. 2018 July. pii: S1933-2874(18)30308-8. doi: 10.1016/j.jacl.2018.07.007.

Late manifestation of alloantibody-associated injury and clinical pulmonary antibody-mediated rejection: Evidence from cell-free DNA analysis

Co-authored by Hannah A. Valantine MD, MRCP (with Sean Agbor-Enoh, MD, PhD, Annette M. Jackson, PhD, Ilker Tunc, PhD, Gerald J. Berry, MD, Adam Berry, PharmD, David Grimm, BS, Andrew Davis, Pali Shah, MD, Anne W. Brown, MD, Yan Wang, PhD, Irina Timofte, MD, Palak Shah, MD, MS, Sasha Gorham, MS, Jennifer Wylie, BS, Natalie Goodwin, BS, Moon Kyoo Jang, PhD, Argit Marishta, BS, Kenneth Bhatti, BS, Ulgen Fideli, PA-C, MHSP, Yanqin Yang, MD, Helen Luikart, RN, Zeling Cao, MD, Mehdi Pirooznia, PhD, Jun Zhu, PhD, Charles Marboe, MD, Aldo Iacono, MD, Steven D. Nathan, MD, Jonathan Orens, MD, Kiran Khush, MD, MAS.)

Journal of Heart Lung Transplant. 2018 July; 37(7):925-932. doi: 10.1016/j.healun.2018.01.1305.

The Cardiologist and the Cancer Patient: Challenges to Cardio-Oncology (or Onco-Cardiology) and Call to Action

Lead author Tochi M. Okwuosa and co-author Kim A. Williams (with Nicole Prabhu, Hena Patel, Timothy Kuzel, Parameswaran Venugopal, and Agne Paner)

Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Volume 72, Issue 2, July 2018

Buffer or Suffer: Redesigning Heart Failure Postdischarge Clinic Using Queuing Theory

Co-authored by Clyde, W. Yancy, MD (with R. Kannan Mutharasan, Faraz S. Ahmad, Itai Gurvich, Hannah Alphs Jackson, Jan A. Van Mieghem)

Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes. July 2018; 11:e004351

ABC OP-ED ARTICLES

Improving Access For All Patients With Heart Valve Disease

by Aaron Horne, Jr., MD, MBA, MHS and Oluseun Alli, MD, MHA, FACC

Opinion: Reduce American Amputations by Enacting Comprehensive Solutions to PAD

by Ehrin Armstrong, Lola Coke, Foluso Fakorede, and Bryan Fisher

Op-Ed: Healthcare is Justice for Underserved Communities

by Foluso Fakorede, MD

Viewpoint: Women’s Voices in Cardiology, An Uncomfortable Silence

by Roxana Mehran, MD

One for All and All for One: Moving Toward A Single Payer for Heart Transplant

by Khadijah Breathett

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