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Rupal Mehta, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine/Nephrology

Center for Translational Metabolism and Health

Institute for Public Health and Medicine

Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University

Presentation Title

10-year Risk Prediction Equations for Heart Failure in Chronic Kidney Disease

Objectives

-Assess performance of a 10-year risk prediction equation for heart failure in patients with CKD

-Compare discriminative performance and model calibration of a modified 10-year Heart Failure Risk Equation with addition of eGFR and UACR

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Arjun Sinha, MD, MS

Postdoctoral Fellow

Cardiovascular Disease 

Epidemiology and Prevention

Department of Preventive Medicine

Presentation Title

Association of Fasting Glucose with Long-term Risk of Incident Heart Failure: Lifetime Risk Pooling Project

Objectives

-Determine the long term risk of HF in middle-aged and older adults with prediabetes

-Understand race-sex differences in the long term risk of HF across different categories of fasting plasma glucose

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Natalie A Cameron, MD

Resident Physician, PGY3

Department of Preventive Medicine

Presentation Title

Trends and disparities in pre-pregnancy hypertension among women in rural and urban United States, 2007-2018

Objectives

-Describe trends and disparities in pre-pregnancy hypertension among women in rural and urban United States using data from the National Vital Statistics System CDC WONDER Natality Files 

-Discuss differences in the prevalence of and trends in pre-pregnancy hypertension by age and race/ethnicity