Ruth-Alma Turkson-Ocran, PhD, MPH, RN
@rantocran.bsky.social
Nurse, Researcher, Advocate. Interests in #CardiovascularHealth #CardioMetabolicHealth #HealthEquity #SocialDeterminants #ChronicDisease #WearableDevices
Comprehensive article led by my brilliant colleague @rantocran.bsky.social. Addressing disparities is the most critical issue facing hypertension today. Hypertension Management to Reduce Racial/Ethnic Disparities: Clinical and Community-Based Interventions link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Hypertension Management to Reduce Racial/Ethnic Disparities: Clinical and Community-Based Interventions - Current Cardiovascular Risk Reports
Purpose of the Review Hypertension remains a major public health concern globally and in the United States with significant racial/ethnic disparities in prevalence, treatment, and control. Despite eff...
link.springer.com
Now Dr. @mingyuzhang.bsky.social from @bidmcreseach.bsky.social discussing prospective associations of pregnancy heavy metals & essential elements with women’s mid-life obesity risk. Can folate mitigate the health effects of metals? #EPILifestyle25 @ahascience.bsky.social #AHAMeetingReport
FAHA means so much more with the new addition of the brilliant @rantocran.bsky.social @ahascience.bsky.social #EpiLifestyle25!!!
Now at the #EPILifestyle25 Oral Abstract Session on Women’s and Maternal Health moderated by Drs. Curisa M. Tucker and Noel Mueller Looking forward to the presentations!
Starting off the last day of #EPILifestyle25 with Dr. Lora E. Burke giving the David Kritchevsky Memorial Lecture. She is speaking on the Evolution of Evidence on Dietary Self-Monitoring Adherence in Obesity Treatment #AHAScience @ahascience.bsky.social #AHAMeetingReport
Ongoing: Discussing 25 years of research in the Jackson Heart Study #EPILifestyle25 #AHAScience #AHAMeetingReport @ahascience.bsky.social
Looking forward to your session today #EPILifestyle25 Sont miss this session.
Kat Kennedy@katkennedy.bsky.social · last yr.Sooo excited to explore NOLA and present at @ahascience.bsky.social #EPILifestyle25 in two weeks! The program looks 🌟 - check it out here: professional.heart.org/en/meetings/... I'll be discussing nocturnal wakefulness and eating behavior on Friday afternoon in session 4A 😴🍲
Up at 3:30 am and on my way to #EpiLifestyle25 after a 1 day flight delay - will make my poster session this evening! Come check it out: Inflammation biomarkers and risk of severe covid in C4R. @ahascience.bsky.social
Join the Editors of #CircCQO at #EPILifestyle25 ! Learn about the journal, what the editors are looking for, and how to submit your work. Attend the journal session TODAY, Friday March 7, at 1:30pm CT in Elite Hall B #CardioSky
It’s Day 2 at #EpiLifestyle25. It’s a full house - now with standing room only at the General session. #AHAscience #AHAMeetingReport @ahascience.bsky.social
We are back and we are here! Let me know which session(s) you’re most looking forward to. #EPILifestyle25
AHA Science@ahascience.bsky.social · last yr.Welcome to New Orleans and #EPILifestyle25! Repost and share what you’re looking forward to the most this week.
Thanks to all those who contributed to make #AHA24 such a success. We hope you left inspired by a #century of progress in CVD and excited by a bright future ahead! @ahascience.bsky.social @cardioobdoc.bsky.social @drmarthagulati.bsky.social @erinmichos.bsky.social @anastasiasmihaili.bsky.social
I’m grateful for all the wonderful memories created at #AHA24. Until we meet again at #AHA25 in #NOLA! @rantocran.bsky.social @bunmiogungbe.bsky.social @modeldoc.bsky.social
Happening now: Dr. Keith Churchwell, AHA president is giving the Lewis A. Conner Presidential Lecture in the Main even Hall. #AHA24 @ahascience.bsky.social #AHAMmeetings
The final speaker for this session is Dr Karen Joynt Maddox about health policy to improve cardiovascular health in communities. She discussed the importance of policies to support doula care Up next is the panel discussion #AHA24 #AHAMeetings @ahascience.bsky.social
We now have @ycommodore.bsky.social discussing her work in LINKED-BP, an @ahascience.bsky.social health-Equity research network project #AHA24 #AHAMeeting
Dr. Modele Ogunniyi discusses her community-based research to dicrease cardiovascular risk in women #AHA24 @ahascience.bsky.social #AHAMeetings
Up next is Dr. Gbenga Ogedegbe from @nyulangonepccsm.bsky.social discussing faith-based approaches to reduce cardiovascular disease risk #AHA24 @ahascience.bsky.social #AHAMeetings
Dr. Phil Levy is first in this session. He’s telling us about his work as a community leader engaging diverse communities. #AHA24 @ahascience.bsky.social #AHAMeetings
Starting off bright and early today with this session on lessons from community engaged research to address CV disparities #AHA24 moderated by Drs. Khadijah Breathett and Kim Williams @ahascience.bsky.social #AHAMeetings
Now at the Elizabeth Barrett-Conner Research Award competition for Early Career Investigators. Five candidates are up for the award. They are: Rikuta Hamaya Mohammadreza Naderian Kershaw Patel… 1/ #AHA24 @ahascience.bsky.social #AHAMeetings
Concluding this session, and before the panel discussion is Prof. Tatsuo Shimosawa discussion the regulatory mechanisms of the NaCl cotransporter in BP control and kidney disease. This room is standing room only. #AHA24 @ahascience.bsky.social
Dr @anastasiasmihaili.bsky.social is next, talking about new devices and drugs to control BP. She did fabulous! #AHA24 @ahascience.bsky.social #AHAMeetings #AHAMeetingReport
It’s all nerves here at the Pecha Kucha session at #AHA24. This session is moderated by @asouth-neph.bsky.social, Paul Whelton, and Marwa Abdulla. Russell’s Byfield gave the a talk on worsening BP control in the US. @ahascience.bsky.social
