Landmark Studies
High-impact PHRI research since the mid-1990s have included HOPE, INTERHEART, INTERSTROKE, PURE, COMPASS, COMPLETE and more.
ACS and Interventional Cardiology
Coronary interventions, novel drugs, advanced imaging, safer stents to survive heart attacks.
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Arrhythmia and Heart Failure
Investigating if we can treat people with subclinical atrial fibrillation to improve outcomes, the prevalence of SCAF in patients with heart failure, and more.
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Brain Health
Moving beyond prevention of the obvious effects of stroke (immobility and death), the brain health team is working to better understand how cerebrovascular diseases affect thinking and memory.
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Cancer Survivorship
Investigating the health of patients with cancer, or who have cardiovascular complications resulting from oncological treatments, as cancer threatens to become the biggest killer worldwide.
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CVD Prevention
Research, such as the PURE study, looking at individual biological factors (genetics, diet, hypertension), lifestyle, socioeconomic and environmental risk factors, globally, to prevent cardiovascular disease.
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Diabetes and GI
Leaders in diabetes research for decades, we are investigating ways to put type 2 diabetes into remission. Research expanding to include obesity, chronic metabolic diseases, and gastrointestinal disorders.
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Global and Population Health
Global health, including neglected diseases. Population health studies: birth cohorts; ethnic cohorts with unique health challenges.
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Infectious Diseases
From assessing whether the influenza vaccine can reduce adverse vascular events in patients with heart failure, to the race to prevention and treatment of COVID-19
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Knowledge Translation and Health Systems
How to get low-cost, effective treatments to patients no matter where they live.
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Perioperative and Surgery
Investigating the best ways to improve patient outcomes globally: before, during and after cardiac and noncardiac surgery.
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Renal
Research activities include treatment of patients who require dialysis, have severe glomerular disease, perioperative acute kidney injury, and various forms of chronic kidney disease (CKD).
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Thrombosis
Can we prevent clots without increasing bleeding? Can we separately identify risk factors that predict bleeding, and others that predict stroke, in order to tailor anti-thrombotic therapy to the patient?
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