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Michael E. Farkouh is affiliated with Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with a strong emphasis on cardiology and cardiovascular medicine. Their academic contributions span numerous subfields including surgery, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, epidemiology, and endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism.

Their research covers key topics such as coronary interventions and diagnostics, acute myocardial infarction research, cardiac imaging and diagnostics, antiplatelet therapy and cardiovascular diseases, heart failure treatment and management, COVID-19 clinical research studies, and lipoproteins and cardiovascular health.

Michael E. Farkouh has authored several notable papers, including:

  • Therapeutic Anticoagulation with Heparin in Critically Ill Patients with Covid-19, 2021, New England Journal of Medicine
  • Anticoagulation, Bleeding, Mortality, and Pathology in Hospitalized Patients With COVID-19, 2020, Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  • Effect of Genotype-Guided Oral P2Y12 Inhibitor Selection vs Conventional Clopidogrel Therapy on Ischemic Outcomes After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention, 2020, JAMA
  • Time Course of LDL Cholesterol Exposure and Cardiovascular Disease Event Risk, 2020, Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  • Association of Adverse Childhood Experiences With Cardiovascular Disease Later in Life, 2020, JAMA Cardiology

The scientist frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including Peter C. Austin, Patrick R. Lawler, Lucas C. Godoy, Jacob A. Udell, and Shaun G. Goodman.

Publication venues where their work is frequently featured include the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Circulation, European Heart Journal, Canadian Journal of Cardiology, and the Journal of the American Heart Association.

Best Publications

  • Strategies for Multivessel Revascularization in Patients with Diabetes

    Michael E. Farkouh;Michael Domanski;Lynn A. Sleeper;Flora S. Siami

  • Users' Guides to the Medical Literature: III. How to Use an Article About a Diagnostic Test A. Are the Results of the Study Valid?

    Roman Jaeschke;Gordon Guyatt;David L. Sackett;Eric Bass

  • Users' Guides to the Medical Literature: II. How to Use an Article About Therapy or Prevention B. What Were the Results and Will They Help Me in Caring for My Patients?

    Gordon H. Guyatt;David L. Sackett;Deborah J. Cook;Gordon Guyatt

  • Diagnosis and Treatment of Chronic Arterial Insufficiency of the Lower Extremities: A Critical Review

    Weitz Ji;Byrne J;Clagett Gp;Farkouh Me

  • Effect of anti-inflammatory treatment on depression, depressive symptoms, and adverse effects: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials.

    Ole Köhler;Michael E. Benros;Merete Nordentoft;Michael E. Farkouh

  • Users' Guides to the Medical Literature: V. How to Use an Article About Prognosis

    Andreas Laupacis;George Wells;W. Scott Richardson;Peter Tugwell

  • A Clinical Trial of a Chest-Pain Observation Unit for Patients with Unstable Angina

    Michael E. Farkouh;Peter A. Smars;Guy S. Reeder;Alan R. Zinsmeister

  • Comparison of lumiracoxib with naproxen and ibuprofen in the Therapeutic Arthritis Research and Gastrointestinal Event Trial (TARGET), cardiovascular outcomes: randomised controlled trial.

    Michael E. Farkouh;Howard Kirshner;Robert A. Harrington;Sean Ruland

  • Mortality after coronary artery bypass grafting versus percutaneous coronary intervention with stenting for coronary artery disease: a pooled analysis of individual patient data

    Stuart J. Head;Milan Milojevic;Joost Daemen;Jung Min Ahn

  • Testing of Low-Risk Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department With Chest Pain: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association

    Ezra A. Amsterdam;J. Douglas Kirk;David A. Bluemke;Deborah B Diercks

  • Association between influenza vaccination and cardiovascular outcomes in high-risk patients: a meta-analysis.

    Jacob A. Udell;Rami Zawi;Deepak L. Bhatt;Deepak L. Bhatt;Maryam Keshtkar-Jahromi;Maryam Keshtkar-Jahromi

  • The antioxidant vitamins and cardiovascular disease. A critical review of epidemiologic and clinical trial data.

    Prabhat Jha;Marcus Flather;Eva Lonn;Michael Farkouh

  • Users' Guides to the Medical Literature: IV. How to Use an Article About Harm

    Mitchell Levine;Stephen Walter;Hui Lee;Ted Haines

  • Atherosclerosis Inflammation Imaging with 18F-FDG PET: Carotid, Iliac, and Femoral Uptake Reproducibility, Quantification Methods, and Recommendations

    James H.F. Rudd;Kelly S. Myers;Sameer Bansilal;Josef Machac

  • Inflammation, Immunity, and Infection in Atherothrombosis: JACC Review Topic of the Week.

    Peter Libby;Joseph Loscalzo;Paul M Ridker;Michael E. Farkouh

  • 18Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography Imaging of Atherosclerotic Plaque Inflammation Is Highly Reproducible: Implications for Atherosclerosis Therapy Trials

    James H.F. Rudd;Kelly S. Myers;Sameer Bansilal;Josef Machac

  • Effect of Empagliflozin on Left Ventricular Mass in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and Coronary Artery Disease: The EMPA-HEART CardioLink-6 Randomized Clinical Trial.

    Subodh Verma;C David Mazer;C David Mazer;Andrew T Yan;Andrew T Yan;Tamique Mason;Tamique Mason

  • Tumour necrosis factor antagonist use and associated risk reduction of cardiovascular events among patients with rheumatoid arthritis

    Jeffrey D Greenberg;Joel M Kremer;Jeffrey R Curtis;Marc C Hochberg

  • A Polypill Strategy to Improve Adherence: Results From the FOCUS Project

    José M. Castellano;Ginés Sanz;José L. Peñalvo;Sameer Bansilal

  • Safety and efficacy of Dalcetrapib on atherosclerotic disease using novel non-invasive multimodality imaging (dal-PLAQUE): a randomised clinical trial

    Z.A. Fayad;V. Mani;M. Woodward

Frequent Co-Authors

Salomon Amar
Salomon Amar New York Medical College
Vera Bittner
Vera Bittner University of Alabama at Birmingham
Jackson T. Wright
Jackson T. Wright Case Western Reserve University
David R. Holmes
David R. Holmes Mayo Clinic
Samin K. Sharma
Samin K. Sharma Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Eugene Z. Oddone
Eugene Z. Oddone Duke University
David L. Simel
David L. Simel Duke University
Ryan J. Lennon
Ryan J. Lennon Mayo Clinic

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