Dr. Salim Virani, MD

• Cardiology

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• Aga Khan Medical College

  Medical School, 1998

• Rare LPL gene variants attenuate triglyceride reduction and HDL cholesterol increase in response to fenofibric acid therapy in individuals with mixed dyslipidemia, 2014-03-22

• Association of Low Density Lipoprotein Pattern with Mortality after Myocardial Infarction: Insights from the TRIUMPH Study, 2017-10-03

• Gender Disparities in Difficulty Accessing Healthcare and Cost-Related Medication Non-Adherence: The CDC Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) Survey, 2021-09-03

• Cardiovascular Biomarkers and Subclinical Brain Disease in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study, 2013-05-09

• Associations Between Lipoprotein(a) Levels and Cardiovascular Outcomes in African Americans and Caucasians: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study, 2011-11-29

• Usefulness of Single Nucleotide Polymorphism in Chromosome 4q25 to Predict In-Hospital and Long Term Development of Atrial Fibrillation and Survival in Patients Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting, 2011-03-15

• Guideline Directed Medication Use in Patients with Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction in India: American College of Cardiology's PINNACLE India Quality Improvement Program, 2016-02-16

• Reducing Cardiovascular Risk in the Medicare Million Hearts Risk Reduction Model: Insights from the NCDR®PINNACLE Registry®, 2022-03-11

• Adherence Clubs to Improve Hypertension Management in Nigeria: Clubmeds, a Feasibility Study, 2022-03-16

• Ceruloplasmin and Heart Failure in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study, 2013-07-16

• Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms in Cholesteryl Ester Transfer Protein Gene And Recurrent Coronary Heart Disease or Mortality in Patients with Established Atherosclerosis, 2013-07-25

• Provider-Level Variation in Smoking Cessation Assistance Provided in the Cardiology Clinics: Insights From the NCDR PINNACLE Registry, 2019-06-28

• Sex differences in the association between cardiovascular diseases and dementia subtypes: a prospective analysis of 464,616 UK Biobank participants, 2022-05-07

• World Heart Federation Cholesterol Roadmap 2022, 2022-10-14

• Impact of Clinical Complexity on the Quality of Diabetes Care, 2014-09-09

• Statin Use and its Facility-Level Variation in Patients with Diabetes: Insight from Veterans Affairs National Database, 2016-04-05

• A dataset to assess providers? knowledge and attitudes towards the 2013 American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Cholesterol Management Guideline, 2016-03-09

• Chromosome 9p21 Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms are Not Associated with Recurrent Myocardial Infarction in Patients with Established Coronary Artery Disease, 2012-02-09

• Frequency and Practice Level Variation in Statin Use Among Patients with Diabetes: Insights from the ACC NCDR®PINNACLE Registry, 2016-09-20

• LDL-C: Is 160 the New 190?, 2018-11-20

• Prevalence and predictors of cost-related medication nonadherence in individuals with cardiovascular disease: Results from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) survey, 2021-07-07

• Effect of increasing age on percutaneous coronary intervention vs coronary artery bypass grafting in older adults with unprotected left main coronary artery disease: A meta-analysis and meta-regression, 2019-09-05

• Unfavorable social determinants of health are associated with higher burden of financial toxicity among patients with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease in the US: findings from the National Health Interview Survey, 2022-12-06

• Treating Chronically Ill Diabetic Patients with Limited Life Expectancy: Implications for Performance Measurement, 2012-01-19

• Monoclonal Antibodies, Gene Silencing and Gene Editing (CRISPR) Therapies for the Treatment of Hyperlipidemia-The Future Is Here, 2023-01-30

• Case-based Educational Intervention to Assess Change in Providers' Knowledge and Attitudes Towards the 2013 American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Cholesterol Management Guideline, 2016-01-06

• Low educational attainment is associated with higher all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in the United States adult population, 2023-05-16

• Cholesterol Insights and Controversies from the UK Biobank Study: Three Take-home Messages for the Busy Clinician, 2019-08-12

• A genetic risk score based on direct associations with coronary heart disease improves coronary heart disease risk prediction in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC), but not in the Rotterdam and Framingham Offspring, Studies, 2012-06-12