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Romit Bhattacharya

@romitb.bsky.social

Preventive Cardiologist at Mass General Hospital | Lifestyle, Genomics, Digital Health, South Asian CVD

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Romit Bhattacharya@romitb.bsky.social · last yr.

Was happy to join @boston25news.com 🎥for a discussion of alcohol and heart disease yesterday! Recent trends show Americans are drinking 🥃🍺 less - what does this mean for the heart? 🫀 www.boston25news.com/news/local/d... @massgeneralbrigham.bsky.social

Dr. Romit Bhattacharya: Survey shows fewer adults drinking alcohol for health reasons

A new Gallup survey reveals that more Americans are choosing to abstain from alcohol.

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Romit Bhattacharya@romitb.bsky.social · last yr.

Thrilled that our work on integrating genetic, contemporary and traditional risk factors into acute MI models has been published in @CirculationGenomeandPrecisionMedicine @ahascience.bsky.social !! Are genetic and contemporary risk factors as powerful as traditional RFs? #CardioSky #cvPrev

Pradeep Natarajan@pnatarajanmd.bsky.social · last yr.

Our study led by @romitb.bsky.social & C. Marnell shows that, when simultaneously considering clinical, laboratory, and genetic risk factors for incident CAD prediction, the top 2 model explanatory factors are: 1. Hypertension 2. CAD polygenic risk score www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...

JCI insight@insight.jci.org · last yr.

Steffensen, Rasmussen, et al. show that deep whole-exome sequencing of human atherosclerotic plaques reveals that the expansion of large mutated clones within plaque tissue is an intrinsic feature of human atherosclerosis: buff.ly/zdEM0dm

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Romit Bhattacharya@romitb.bsky.social · last yr.

Peer Review In Peril @aniloza.bsky.social "But now, “the Trump administration feels very strongly that the president’s agenda is the most important consideration for any government spending" www.statnews.com/2025/05/27/r... #Cardiosky

‘Corrupt’ medical journals have to change, RFK Jr. says, or the NIH will publish in-house

The criticism of The Lancet, NEJM and JAMA is not new, but the health secretary may use his position to influence research that journals publish.

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Vijay G. Sankaran@bloodgenes.bsky.social · last yr.

Wow!!! These human genetic insights could enable the next generation of pain management therapies: rupress.org/jem/article/... Fascinating @jem.org article!

A pathological missense mutation in the deubiquitinase USP5 leads to insensitivity to pain | Journal of Experimental Medicine | Rockefeller University Press

The manuscript reports on patient with a USP5 mutation that gives rise to insensitivity to pain. The patient’s pathology is phenocopied in a knock-in mouse

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The Onion@theonion.com · last yr.

“Studies of the past tell us that nitpicking the particular semantics of the term ‘concentration camp’ as they pertain to a place the government is actively sending people with no criminal history is highly associated with national stability,” said historian Kristen Boyd theonion.com/histori...

Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society

NEW HAVEN, CT—Calling such concern for linguistic precision a clear indicator of a thriving country, a panel of historians from Yale University issued a statement Thursday announcing that quibbling over the exact definition of a concentration camp was a sign of a healthy society. “Studies of the past tell us that nitpicking the particular semantics […]

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Romit Bhattacharya@romitb.bsky.social · last yr.

@kevinh-phd.bsky.social Kevin Hall’s work has been so important and enlightening to nutrition science and preventive cardiology. I thought at least his work would be valued and supported with the stated priorities. This is truly saddening to hear.

Kevin Hall@kevinh-phd.bsky.social · last yr.

After 21 years at my dream job, I’m very sad to announce my early retirement from the National Institutes of Health. My life’s work has been to scientifically study how our food environment affects what we eat, and how what we eat affects our physiology.