Sept. 28, 2023 — 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, associate professor of medicine at Duke University School of Medicine and member of the DCRI, wants to do something about that.
“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 population level.”