Kamal Awad

Association of the Red Cell Distribution Width–Albumin Ratio with Myocardial Strain, Mortality, and Heart Failure Hospitalization: A Retrospective Cohort Study

Aims: The aims of this study were to evaluate the association between the red cell distribution width (RDW)–albumin ratio (RAR) and subclinical myocardial impairment, as assessed by left ventricular global longitudinal strain (LVGLS), and to examine the relationships between the RAR, heart failure (HF) hospitalization,...

Comorbid Cardiovascular-Liver Disease Disparities: Current Understanding and Future Directions

Diagnostic accuracy of electronic medical record retrieval methods and a large language model for identifying cardiovascular events: a multisite retrospective validation study in a medical system in the United States

In this multisite retrospective validation study, the LLM-assisted workflow showed strong but context-dependent performance for identifying cardiovascular events from the EMR, and ICD-based retrieval remained competitive for some use cases.