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George Taffet, MD

Acting Professor of Medicine, Academic Institute
Houston Methodist
Weill Cornell Medical College


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Education & Training

Residency, Baylor College of Medicine
Clinical Fellowship, Baylor College of Medicine
MD, Brown University Program in Medicine
Publications

Discussing "Associations of Folate/Folic Acid Supplementation Alone and in Combination With Other B Vitamins on Dementia Risk and Brain Structure"
Barthelemy, B, Kanwar, MK, Little, KM & Taffet, G 2024, , Journals of Gerontology - Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, vol. 79, no. 8, glae123. https://doi.org/10.1093/gerona/glae123

Association of low diastolic blood pressure with cardiovascular outcomes and all-cause mortality: A meta-analysis
Siddiqi, TJ, Usman, MS, Siddiqui, A, Salman, A, Talbot, N, Khan, LA, Shabbir, A, Hall, ME & Taffet, GE 2024, , Current Problems in Cardiology, vol. 49, no. 1 Pt C, 102131, pp. 102131. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpcardiol.2023.102131

Age-Related Differences in the Contribution of Systolic Blood Pressure and Biomarkers to Cardiovascular Disease Risk Prediction: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study
Al Rifai, M, Taffet, GE, Matsushita, K, Virani, SS, De Lemos, J, Khera, A, Berry, J, Ndumele, C, Aguilar, D, Sun, C, Hoogeveen, RC, Selvin, E, Ballantyne, CM & Nambi, V 2023, , American Journal of Cardiology, vol. 204, pp. 295-301. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjcard.2023.07.118

Impact of Geroscience on Therapeutic Strategies for Older Adults With Cardiovascular Disease: JACC Scientific Statement
Forman, DE, Kuchel, GA, Newman, JC, Kirkland, JL, Volpi, E, Taffet, GE, Barzilai, N, Pandey, A, Kitzman, DW, Libby, P & Ferrucci, L 2023, , Journal of the American College of Cardiology, vol. 82, no. 7, pp. 631-647. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2023.05.038

Supplementing Glycine and N-Acetylcysteine (GlyNAC) in Older Adults Improves Glutathione Deficiency, Oxidative Stress, Mitochondrial Dysfunction, Inflammation, Physical Function, and Aging Hallmarks: A Randomized Clinical Trial
Kumar, P, Liu, C, Suliburk, J, Hsu, JW, Muthupillai, R, Jahoor, F, Minard, CG, Taffet, GE & Sekhar, RV 2023, , Journals of Gerontology - Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, vol. 78, no. 1, pp. 75-89. https://doi.org/10.1093/gerona/glac135

Deprescribing statins, considerations for informed decision making
Thomas, C, Ellison, H & Taffet, GE 2023, , Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol. 71, no. 8, pp. 2685-2689. https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.18362

Cardiovascular hemodynamics in mice with tumor necrosis factor receptor—associated factor 2 mediated cytoprotection in the heart
Marshall, AG, Neikirk, K, Vue, Z, Beasley, HK, Garza-Lopez, E, Vang, L, Barongan, T, Evans, Z, Crabtree, A, Spencer, E, Anudokem, J, Parker, R, Davis, J, Stephens, D, Damo, S, Pham, TT, Gomez, JA, Exil, V, Dai, DF, Murray, SA, Entman, ML, Taffet, GE, Hinton, AO & Reddy, AK 2023, , Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine, vol. 10, 1064640. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcvm.2023.1064640

Sex-specific phenotypes in the aging mouse heart and consequences for chronic fibrosis
Angelini, A, Ortiz-Urbina, J, Trial, JA, Reddy, AK, Malovannaya, A, Jain, A, Entman, ML, Taffet, GE & Cieslik, KA 2022, , American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology, vol. 323, no. 2, pp. H285-H300. https://doi.org/10.1152/ajpheart.00078.2022

Midlife determinants of healthy cardiovascular aging: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study
Jia, X, Sun, C, Nambi, V, Virani, SS, Taffet, G, Boerwinkle, E, Bressler, J, Ndumele, C, Windham, BG, de Lemos, JA, Matsushita, K, McEvoy, JW, Hoogeveen, RC, Selvin, E & Ballantyne, CM 2022, , Atherosclerosis, vol. 350, pp. 82-89. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2022.04.028

Pulse wave velocity: why is it important to know to estimate?
Reddy, AK & Taffet, GE 2022, , Journal of Cardiovascular Aging, vol. 2, no. 1, 10. https://doi.org/10.20517/jca.2021.36

Author Correction: Aortic acceleration as a noninvasive index of left ventricular contractility in the mouse
Perez, JET, Ortiz-Urbina, J, Heredia, CP, Pham, TT, Madala, S, Hartley, CJ, Entman, ML, Taffet, GE & Reddy, AK 2021, , Scientific Reports, vol. 11, no. 1, 23743, pp. 23743. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-03203-0

Editors’ Preamble to The Journal of Cardiovascular Aging
Marian, AJ, Asatryan, B, Bolli, R, Cheedipudi, SM, Dhalla, NS, Finkel, T, Frangogiannis, NG, Gurha, P, Belmonte, JCI, Hare, JM, Hong, K, Kirshenbaum, LA, Lee, RT, Leesar, MA, Libby, P, Madonna, R, Nagueh, SF, Roberts, R, Rosenzweig, A, Rouhi, L, Sadoshima, J, Sussman, MA, Taffet, GE, Tanaka, H, Torella, D, Wang, Y & Wang, DW 2021, , Journal of Cardiovascular Aging, vol. 1, no. 1, 1. https://doi.org/10.20517/jca.2021.01

Exercise Intolerance in Older Adults With Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction: JACC State-of-the-Art Review
Pandey, A, Shah, SJ, Butler, J, Kellogg, DL, Lewis, GD, Forman, DE, Mentz, RJ, Borlaug, BA, Simon, MA, Chirinos, JA, Fielding, RA, Volpi, E, Molina, AJA, Haykowsky, MJ, Sam, F, Goodpaster, BH, Bertoni, AG, Justice, JN, White, JP, Ding, J, Hummel, SL, LeBrasseur, NK, Taffet, GE, Pipinos, II & Kitzman, D 2021, , Journal of the American College of Cardiology, vol. 78, no. 11, pp. 1166-1187. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2021.07.014

NLRP3 inflammasome is a key driver of obesity-induced atrial arrhythmias
Scott, L, Fender, AC, Saljic, A, Li, L, Chen, X, Wang, X, Linz, D, Lang, J, Hohl, M, Twomey, D, Pham, TT, Diaz-Lankenau, R, Chelu, MG, Kamler, M, Entman, ML, Taffet, GE, Sanders, P, Dobrev, D & Li, N 2021, , Cardiovascular Research, vol. 117, no. 7, pp. 1746-1759. https://doi.org/10.1093/cvr/cvab024

Diagnostic accuracy of the 4AT for delirium detection in older adults: systematic review and meta-analysis
Tieges, Z, Maclullich, AMJ, Anand, A, Brookes, C, Cassarino, M, O’connor, M, Ryan, D, Saller, T, Arora, RC, Chang, Y, Agarwal, KS, Taffet, G, Quinn, T, Shenkin, SD & Galvin, R 2021, , Age and Ageing, vol. 50, no. 3, pp. 733-743. https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afaa224

Decade-long nationwide trends and disparities in use of comfort care interventions for patients with ischemic stroke
Chu, KM, Jones, EM, Meeks, JR, Pan, AP, Agarwal, KL, Taffet, GE & Vahidy, FS 2021, , Journal of the American Heart Association, vol. 10, no. 8, e019785, pp. e019785. https://doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.120.019785

Author Correction: Aortic acceleration as a noninvasive index of left ventricular contractility in the mouse
Tovar Perez, JE, Ortiz-Urbina, J, Heredia, CP, Pham, TT, Madala, S, Hartley, CJ, Entman, ML, Taffet, GE & Reddy, AK 2021, , Scientific Reports, vol. 11, no. 1, 7859, pp. 7859. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-87101-5

Aortic acceleration as a noninvasive index of left ventricular contractility in the mouse
Perez, JET, Ortiz-Urbina, J, Heredia, CP, Pham, TT, Madala, S, Hartley, CJ, Entman, ML, Taffet, GE & Reddy, AK 2021, , Scientific Reports, vol. 11, no. 1, 536. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-79866-y

Implementing Health Care Quality Measures in Electronic Health Records: A Conceptual Model
Campbell, CM, Murphy, DR, Taffet, GE, Major, AB, Ritchie, CS, Leff, B & Naik, AD 2021, , Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol. 69, no. 4, pp. 1079-1085. https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.17033

Plasma dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate and cardiovascular disease risk in older men and women
Jia, X, Sun, C, Tang, O, Gorlov, I, Nambi, V, Virani, SS, Villareal, DT, Taffet, GE, Yu, B, Bressler, J, Boerwinkle, E, Gwen Windham, B, De Lemos, JA, Matsushita, K, Selvin, E, Michos, ED, Hoogeveen, RC & Ballantyne, CM 2020, , Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, vol. 105, no. 12, pp. 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1210/clinem/dgaa518

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