{"id":1181,"date":"2019-05-24T15:23:19","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T19:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/epidemiology\/?p=1181"},"modified":"2019-05-24T15:23:19","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T19:23:19","slug":"epidemiology-researcher-quoted-on-risk-of-cardiovascular-disease-for-patients-with-colorectal-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/epidemiology\/2019\/05\/24\/epidemiology-researcher-quoted-on-risk-of-cardiovascular-disease-for-patients-with-colorectal-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Epidemiology Researcher Quoted on Risk of Cardiovascular Disease for Patients with Colorectal Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Medscape\u00a0<\/em>quoted <a href=\"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/epidemiology\/people\/faculty\/michael-passarelli\/\">Michael Passarelli<\/a>, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medscape.com\/viewarticle\/913282#vp_1\">article<\/a> featuring research by other scientists about the risk of cardiovascular disease for patients with colorectal cancer. While colorectal cancer patients have previously relied on body mass index, this study, published in\u00a0<em>JAMA Oncology,<\/em>\u00a0indicates that computed tomography imaging will more accurately predict future risk of cardiovascular disease.\u00a0\"I think the takeaway here, at least from my point of view, is that the notion of the obesity paradox for mortality from colorectal cancer and separately from cardiovascular disease seems to be largely an artifact of the inadequacies of measuring obesity using height and weight,\" says Passarelli, who also wrote an accompanying <a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamaoncology\/article-abstract\/2733790\">editorial<\/a> on his colleagues' research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medscape\u00a0quoted Michael Passarelli, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, in an article featuring research by other scientists about the risk of cardiovascular disease for patients with colorectal cancer. While colorectal cancer patients have previously relied on body mass index, this study, published in\u00a0JAMA Oncology,\u00a0indicates that computed tomography imaging will more accurately predict [\u2026] <\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<p><a class=\"more_link clearfix\" href=\"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/epidemiology\/2019\/05\/24\/epidemiology-researcher-quoted-on-risk-of-cardiovascular-disease-for-patients-with-colorectal-cancer\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","author-92"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paQAoO-j3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/epidemiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/epidemiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/epidemiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/epidemiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/epidemiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/epidemiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1182,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/epidemiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions\/1182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/epidemiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/epidemiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/epidemiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}