University of Pennsylvania Almanac
Over the next five years, Dr. Joel M. Gelfand, assistant professor of
dermatology and associate scholar in the Center of Clinical
Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of Pennsylvania School
of Medicine, will receive funding from the National Institutes of
Health’s (NIH) National Heart Lung and Blood Institute to study the
relationship between psoriasis, cardiovascular risk factors and
cardiovascular outcomes. This research will build a deeper
understanding of the relationship between inflammatory diseases like
psoriasis and myocardial infarction (heart attack), potentially paving
the way for improved disease management strategies for the over 7
million Americans with psoriasis... Read More
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