Ali Ahmed

Professor of Medicine

[Ali Ahmed @aamdmph]

Our paper "Outcomes of KDIGO-Defined CKD in U.S. Veterans with HFpEF, HFmrEF and HFrEF" in JACC-HF is the first study to provides estimates of true prevalence and outcomes of CKD in these patients.

Free reading or downloading till Mar 27, 2025.

https://t.co/5kR9lJRMDn

[Phillip Lam, MD @PhilLamMD]

Our results demonstrate that in octogenarians with HFrEF (an understudied population), use of target-dose RASi was associated with clinical benefits seen in RCTs @aamdmph @gcfmd @MedStarHealth @DCVAMC @GTCardFellows https://t.co/wZ1uADcNDO

[Ali Ahmed @aamdmph]

Our paper "Artificial intelligence approaches for phenotyping heart failure in U.S. Veterans Health Administration electronic health record" was published today in the journal "ESC Heart Failure"!

https://t.co/h9lNHsMKme

[Ali Ahmed @aamdmph]

Patients with HF who met KDIGO definition of CKD (i.e. CKD present for >3m) have higher risks of death and HF hospitalization, but many patients either lack necessary data or do not meet KDIGO criteria despite available data.

@DCVAMC @PhilLamMD @gcfmd

https://t.co/qEaRYifGTc

[Ali Ahmed @aamdmph]

Burger made of lab-grown artificial chicken vs. clinical evidence from IPTW-derived artificial patients - a LinkedIn post about our recent letter in a Lancet journal!

https://t.co/y2AFnpkWI2

[Ali Ahmed @aamdmph]

Timing of KM curve separation from 4 RCTs in HFrEF (the "comments" section in link below) suggest that early curve separation does not indicate early effect in RCTs and is not a marker of confounding in non-RCT studies. 

https://t.co/LCLPGVKSU4

[Ali Ahmed @aamdmph]

Washington DC VA Medical Center Researchers Find that Uninterrupted Dialysis Treatment During COVID-19 Pandemic Saved Veteran Lives

https://t.co/Q2YNOGmCfB

[Ali Ahmed @aamdmph]

Our comment piece entitled – “Observational drug studies of synthetic populations should not be referred to as “trials” and associations observed in observational studies should not be termed “effects”” – was posted online today.

https://t.co/gLqPLWnN4Q

[Ali Ahmed @aamdmph]

During COVID-19 pandemic, VA provided uninterrupted delivery of outpatient maintenance hemodialysis to Veterans with ESKD, helping avoid death due to missed dialysis.

@DCVAMC @AmJNephrol @atkins_hsrd @GUMedicine @GWSMHS

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[Ali Ahmed @aamdmph]

Findings from our study based on 842 participants in the Adult Changes in Thought (ACT) study with clinical and autopsy data suggest a significant association of cerebral arteriolosclerosis with both cortical and subcortical microi…https://t.co/eH09PRGlrJ https://t.co/eLEwDgA2AI

[Ali Ahmed @aamdmph]

Congrats Jay and Negin for the great work, and thanks Phil for guiding them!!

https://t.co/SkcqtPDLPG

[Phillip Lam, MD @PhilLamMD]

Congrats to our future @GTCardFellows chief fellow @JayBPatelMD and Negin Rassekh on this excellent review on the implementation of HFrEF #GDMT @gcfmd @fsheikh22 @aamdmph @MedStarWHC @MarkHofmeyer @gabyweissman @ckaiseroll @BKenigsberg @RichaGuptaMD https://t.co/lSEEXtm9ZN

[Ali Ahmed @aamdmph]

Patients with HF, EF <40% and eGFR <30 initiated on ACEIs or ARBs had a 20% lower risk of death or hospital readmission due to HF. While these hypothesis-generating findings add new information to the body of cumulative evidence th…https://t.co/iWtUQeX2WS https://t.co/V1NM8FLqlQ

[Ali Ahmed @aamdmph]

Findings from our study based on over 3000 brain autopsy data show that the phenotype of resilience to dementia is not common and has few predictors except APOE-e2. Ironically, older age, a predictor of dementia, is also a predicto…https://t.co/XaYknT3Xjm https://t.co/4CMiJcbTVf

[Ali Ahmed @aamdmph]

Findings from our NIH/NIA-funded study based on national VA data suggest that physical fitness may reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD). Although fitness is genetically determined, it can be improved…https://t.co/5uLjw4GaFX https://t.co/P16aAfv7mB

[Ali Ahmed @aamdmph]

@PhilLamMD @DCVAMC @MedStarWHC @gcfmd @GTCardFellows @gtown_medres @hrs_journal @gabyweissman @ckaiseroll @fsheikh22 @MarkHofmeyer Congrats, Phil, and thanks for mentoring Alex and Sant!

[Ali Ahmed @aamdmph]

Our paper based on a post hoc analysis of SCD-HeFT data suggest that the effect of ICD on death in HFrEF does not vary by how LVEF is estimated (echo vs. MUGA). https://t.co/CQSFTKRioz

[Ali Ahmed @aamdmph]

Our paper on the risk of stroke in older adults with heart failure published in the American Journal of Cardiology - it is intriguing that incidence of stroke seems to have a natural ceiling - about one in five older adults had str…https://t.co/WINiRyXGHw https://t.co/0hxrORCnL1

[Ali Ahmed @aamdmph]

@maciejbanach @MayoProceedings https://t.co/JrA64SoPpE

[Ali Ahmed @aamdmph]

A link from JAMA Oncology that lists some of the news coverage of our recent paper in the journal. https://t.co/rLbKGxrcGO

[Ali Ahmed @aamdmph]

A nice report of our recent paper on HCQ in RA by John Gever in MedPage Today!

Study Reassures on HCQ Heart Risks in Rheumatoid Arthritis
— Not zero, but not very worrisome, authors conclude

by John Gever, Contributing Writer,…https://t.co/jnjm12Idga https://t.co/TlnzyMB2bv