Rebecca Gottesman
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Rebecca Gottesman is Senior Investigator and Stroke Branch Chief at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).[1] Before joining NINDS, she was Professor of Neurology and Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University. Gottesman completed a B.A. in Psychology at Columbia University (1995), an M.D. at Columbia University (2000), and a Ph.D. in Clinical Investigation at Johns Hopkins University (2007). She is a Fellow of the American Neurological Association (2012) and a Fellow of the American Heart Association (2015).[2]
Her research, funded primarily by the
JAMA, she linked heart risks to the brain plaques of Alzheimer's, finding that compared to people with no midlife risk factors, suffering from obesity, smoking or having high cholesterol, high blood pressure or diabetes had an 88 percent increased risk of elevated levels of plaques, a hallmark of Alzheimer's.[4]
Those with two or more risk factors had triple the risk.
References
- ^ "Rebecca F. Gottesman, M.D., Ph.D. | NINDS Division of Intramural Research". research.ninds.nih.gov. Retrieved 2021-07-23.
- ^ "Rebecca Gottesman, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Neurology". Johns Hopkins Medicine. Retrieved 2020-06-26.
- ^ "American Stroke Association honors 10 for outstanding stroke research | American Heart Association". newsroom.heart.org. Retrieved 2019-04-05.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-04-05.
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