Cardiovascular disease is the number one killer of people in the United States and worldwide. Yet physicians often do not prescribe evidence-based medicines that could change those statistics.
Neha Pagidipati, MD, MPH, an associate professor of medicine at Duke University School of Medicine and a member of the DCRI, wants to address this issue.
“There are therapies that have a ton of evidence [showing they] keep people from developing recurrent disease,” said Pagidipati, a cardiologist who specializes in prevention. “They are just not being used appropriately. That has to change on the population level.”