George Athanasios Karpouzas, MD, FACR
Investigator, The Lundquist Institute
Professor of Medicine David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Chief, Division of Rheumatology Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
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Evaluate and intervene on predictors of accelerated atherosclerosis in rheumatoid arthritis
Research Description
1. Premature Coronary Atherosclerosis in Rheumatoid arthritis2. Cardiovascular risk stratification and event prediction in rheumatoid arthritis
3. Physician and patient reported outcome disparities in ethnic minorities with Rheumatoid arthritis
Research Interests
Education
- MD, 1993, Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki Greece, School of Medicine
Recent and/or Significant Publications
Karpouzas GA, Ormseth SR, Hernandez E, Budoff MJ. Impact of cumulative inflammation, cardiac risk factors and medication exposure on coronary atherosclerosis progression in rheumatoid arthritis. Arthritis Rheumatol. 2019 Sep 18. doi: 10.1002/art.41122.
Hollan I, Ronda N, Dessein P, Agewall S, Karpouzas G, Tamargo J, Niessner A, Savarese G, Rosano G, Kaski JC, Wassmann S, Meroni PL. Lipid management in rheumatoid arthritis: a position paper by the Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy Working Group of European Society of Cardiology. Eur Heart J Cardiovasc Pharmacother. 2019 Aug 9. pii: pvz033. doi: 10.1093/ehjcvp/pvz033.
Karpouzas GA, Strand V, Ormseth SR. Latent profile analysis approach to the relationship between patient and physician global assessments of rheumatoid arthritis activity. RMD Open. 2018 Jun 28;4(1):e000695. doi: 10.1136/rmdopen-2018-000695.
Karpouzas GA, Estis J, Rezaeian P, Todd J, Budoff MJ. Highly sensitive cardiac troponin-I predicts occult coronary plaque burden, composition and cardiovascular events in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Rheumatology (Oxford), 2018, doi:10.1093/rheumatology/key057
Karpouzas GA, Estis J, Rezaeian P, Todd J, Budoff MJ. Highly sensitive cardiac troponin-I predicts occult coronary plaque burden, composition and cardiovascular events in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Rheumatology (Oxford), 2018, doi:10.1093/rheumatology/key057