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NHLBI Grantee Receives AHA Award
Office of the Director - March 5, 2010
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Congratulations to NHLBI grantee and University of Pittsburgh epidemiologist Rachel Mackey, Ph.D., M.P.H., F.A.H.A., who received a Trudy Bush Fellowship for Cardiovascular Research in Women's Health from the American Heart Association (AHA). These fellowships honor faculty for outstanding leadership in women's health and cardiovascular science, and are given to the first authors of the three highest-scored women's health-related abstracts submitted to the AHA's annual Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention Conference.
Rachel was selected for her work with the Women's Health Initiative Observational Study showing that lipoprotein particles—specifically, higher total LDL particles and lower total HDL particles—are strong predictors of incident coronary heart disease among extremely obese (BMI of 40 or above) postmenopausal women, independent of risk factors such as diabetes, waist circumference, lipid-lowering therapy, adiponectin, leptin and ghrelin.
The AHA presented Rachel with her award on March 4 during this year's epidemiology conference in San Francisco, Calif.
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