Rajat N Agrawal, MD

#Retina Specialist | President & CEO, @RetinaGlobal1 | Founder, @OCEyeProject | Views personal.

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Flight 779. About to take off. It’s a @Boeing 737 Max 8, which has a large bin space. And yet, I was probably the only one made to check whether my bag fits that contraption they have to check bag size at the gate, since others who followed carried their large bags in.

[Rajat N Agrawal, MD @RajAgra]

Amazing for me to be pulled out of the boarding line on an @AirCanada flight to LA at Montreal gate 75.

Boarding early and yet the gate agent makes me check my bag.

I see others who are carrying bigger bags and she has let them go.

What should I call it?

[Rajat N Agrawal, MD @RajAgra]

Au revoir, Asha Ji.

Thank you for the magic you gave us, which will live for ever.

You will be deeply missed.

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#AshaBhonsale #Bollywood #songs #music

[Rajat N Agrawal, MD @RajAgra]

Welcome home, Integrity!

#space @NASA #Moon

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Why is this important? South Asian people represent a quarter of the #global population and number 6.4 million in the US, where they are a growing #ethnic group.

https://t.co/sTm5BEyHFp

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Clinical risk factors for #atherosclerotic #cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) are higher in midlife among South #Asian adults in the US than other racial and ethnic groups, as per a long term study called the #MASALA study!

[Rajat N Agrawal, MD @RajAgra]

The National Institutes of Health–funded prospective cohort study aims to better understand the heightened heart disease risk in this community.

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The researchers found that taking a daily multivitamin significantly slowed markers of aging in two of the five clocks — both of which can be used to indicate mortality risk.

#aging #ageing #life #longevity #vitamin #epigenetic #biomarker #DNA

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Taking a multivitamin every day can slow certain markers of biological aging.

https://t.co/2gVLOJUUDr

Pic (c) Forbes

[Rajat N Agrawal, MD @RajAgra]

These clocks are biomarkers that measure DNA methylation — patterns of molecular tags on DNA — at specific sites in the genome. Methylation levels increase or decrease at particular sites in a relatively predictable manner with age.