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VIDEO: Insights on the link between gut microbiome, ASCVD
SAN ANTONIO — In this video exclusive, W.H. Wilson Tang, MD, director of the Center for Clinical Genomics, research director, and staff cardiologist in the section of heart failure and cardiac transplantation medicine in the Sydell and Arnold Miller Family Heart and Vascular Institute at Cleveland Clinic, discusses the major take-home points from his presentation at the American Society of Preventive Cardiology Congress on CVD Prevention, which focused on the effects of the microbiome on ASCVD.
Tang told Cardiology Today how bacteria found in the gut can have an impact on the development and progression of CVDs and how modifying dietary nutrition intake may be a proof-of-concept approach.
Watch the video for more.