MD, Doctoral Researcher Andrew Agbaje of the Institute of Public Health and Clinical Nutrition has won an American Heart Association 2022 Paul Dudley White International Scholar Award for the abstract “Adolescent Arterial Stiffness Precedes Elevated Resting Heart Rate In Young Adulthood: A 7-year Temporal Longitudinal Analysis Using Cross-lagged Structural Equation Model”.
The award is presented to the primary author of the highest-ranked abstract submitted from each country to the American Heart Association’s EPI |Lifestyle Scientific Sessions 2022. This award is named for Dr. Paul Dudley White, who was a founding father of the American Heart Association and an early leader in preventive cardiology. It reflects Dr. White’s vision for global excellence in cardiovascular science and medicine.
Moreover, Andrew Agbaje has been nominated as one of five finalists for the Jeremiah and Rose Stamler Research Award for New Investigators. The award is named in appreciation of Stamler’s seminal contributions to cardiovascular disease epidemiology. The award recognizes and stimulates excellence in research by investigators in training. The winner of the Jeremiah and Rose Stamler award will be announced during the 2022 EPI |Lifestyle Scientific Sessions.
We have shown for the first time in a large pediatric population that adolescent arterial stiffness is a potential cause of hypertension, obesity, insulin resistance, and hyperinsulinemia in early adulthood.
Andrew Agbaje
MD, Doctoral Researcher
“We have shown for the first time in a large pediatric population that adolescent arterial stiffness is a potential cause of hypertension, obesity, insulin resistance, and hyperinsulinemia in early adulthood. This abstract which will be published in Circulation during the EPI |Lifestyle Scientific conference summarizes our finding that adolescent arterial stiffness may independently and potentially cause elevated resting heart rate in early adulthood. Indeed, it is a great honour to receive international recognition for our work, especially for the second time in two consecutive years, and join the ranks of respected recipients of these Awards,” Agbaje says.
Andrew Agbaje and co-authors, Professor Tomi-Pekka Tuomainen of the University of Eastern Finland and Associate Professor Alan Barker of the University of Exeter will be acknowledged during the American Heart Association’s EPI |Lifestyle Scientific Sessions 2022 in Chicago, Illinois, USA from March 1-4, 2022. https://professional.heart.org/en/meetings/epi-lifestyle
For further information, please contact:
Andrew Agbaje, MD, MPH, Cert. Clinical Research (Harvard), Principal Investigator (urFIT-child). Institute of Public Health and Clinical Nutrition, School of Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland. andrew.agbaje (a) uef.fi, +358 46 896 5633
https://uefconnect.uef.fi/en/person/andrew.agbaje/
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