Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Director of Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Heart Disease
Cardiology
Dr. Roger S. Blumenthal, MD
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Doctor Roger S. Blumenthal, MD practices Cardiology. He attended Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University. Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University is ranked 18 in research and 49 in primary care medicine He received 9 awards: "America's Top Doctors", "CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification", "Top Doctors:Baltimore Area", "Top Doctors:Washington-Baltimore", "Men's Health", "Top MD", "Super Doctor", "Fellow (FACC)" and "Whos Who in Medicine and Healthcare". Doctor Roger S. Blumenthal, MD is also a published physician. He has 100 publication published. The most recent publication is: Fasting or Nonfasting Lipid Measurements: It Depends on the Question. He is registered with Medicare and accepts Medicare payments.
Publications
- Fasting or Nonfasting Lipid Measurements: It Depends on the Question.
- Coronary artery Calcium predicts Cardiovascular events in participants with a low lifetime risk of Cardiovascular disease: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (M...
- Age-dependent prognostic value of exercise capacity and derivation of fitness-associated biologic age.
- PCSK9 inhibitors and their role in high-risk patients in reducing LDL cholesterol levels: alirocumab.
- PCSK9 inhibitors and their role in high-risk patients in reducing LDL cholesterol levels: evolocumab.
- MY APPROACH to using Coronary artery calcium scoring in primary prevention of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.
- Improving Cardiovascular Disease Risk Prediction With Albuminuria and Glomerular Filtration Rate.
- Predictors of Long-Term Healthy Arterial Aging: Coronary Artery Calcium Nondevelopment in the MESA Study.
- Risk Prediction Using CACS in Younger Populations: Theory or Valid Practice?
- Relationship of the triglyceride to high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (TG/HDL-C) ratio to the remainder of the lipid profile: The Very Large Database of Lipids-4 (V...
- The association of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, obesity, and metabolic Syndrome, with systemic inflammation and subclinical atherosclerosis: The Multi-Ethnic Stud...
- Scoring of Coronary artery calcium scans: History, assumptions, current limitations, and future directions.
- Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Incident Diabetes: The FIT (Henry Ford Exercise Testing) Project.
- The association of resistin with cardiovascular Disease in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.
- Leptin and incident cardiovascular Disease: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA).
- Genetic and immunologic susceptibility to statin-related myopathy.
- The relationship between Coronary artery calcium score and the long-term mortality among patients with minimal or absent Coronary artery risk factors.
- Usefulness of Regional Distribution of Coronary Artery Calcium to Improve the Prediction of All-Cause Mortality.
- Improving the relationship between Coronary artery calcium score and Coronary plaque burden: Addition of regional measures of Coronary artery calcium distribution.
- Recommendations for the management of patients with familial hypercholesterolemia.
- Relation of physical activity to prevalence of nonalcoholic Fatty liver Disease independent of cardiometabolic risk.
- Obesity, subclinical myocardial injury, and incident Heart failure.
- Insulin resistance in rheumatoid arthritis: Disease related indicators and associations with the presence and progression of subclinical atherosclerosis.
- Statins, mood, sleep, and physical function: a systematic review.
- Association of Coronary Artery Calcium and Coronary Heart Disease Events in Young and Elderly Participants in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis: A Secondary An...
- The new "intermediate risk" group: a comparative analysis of the new 2013 ACC/AHA risk assessment guidelines versus prior guidelines in men.
- Coronary artery calcium score.
- Headed in the Right Direction But at Risk for Miscalculation: A Critical Appraisal of the 2013 ACC/AHA Risk Assessment Guidelines.
- 2013 ACC/AHA Cholesterol Treatment Guideline: What Was Done Well and What Could Be Done Better.
- Baseline subclinical atherosclerosis burden and distribution are associated with frequency and mode of future Coronary revascularization: multi-ethnic study of atheros...
- Ethnic and sex differences in Fatty liver on cardiac computed tomography: the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis.
- Screening low-risk individuals for Coronary artery disease.
- Risk factors: New risk-assessment guidelines-more or less personalized?
- Critical Review of High-Sensitivity C-Reactive Protein and Coronary Artery Calcium for the Guidance of Statin Allocation: Head-to-Head Comparison of the JUPITER and St...
- Associations of Pentraxin 3 with Cardiovascular Disease: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.
- Family history of Coronary heart disease and the incidence and progression of Coronary artery calcification: Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA).
- Systematic review on noninvasive assessment of subclinical cardiovascular Disease in obstructive sleep apnea: new kid on the block!
- Risk and the Physics of Clinical Prediction.
- Polypill Therapy, Subclinical Atherosclerosis, and Cardiovascular Events-Implications for the Use of Preventive Pharmacotherapy: MESA (Multi-Ethnic Study of Atheroscle...
- Dyslipidemia, Coronary artery calcium, and incident atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease: implications for statin therapy from the multi-ethnic study of atherosclero...
- Genetics and Personalized Medicine-a Role in Statin Therapy?
- Modifiable lifestyle risks, cardiovascular Disease, and all-cause mortality.
- Statin Use Is Not Associated With Presence of and Severity of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.
- Obstructive sleep apnea and diurnal nondipping hemodynamic indices in patients at increased cardiovascular risk.
- Impact of Coronary artery calcium on Coronary heart disease events in individuals at the extremes of traditional risk factor burden: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosc...
- Relation Between Self-Reported Physical Activity Level, Fitness, and Cardiometabolic Risk.
- Association Between Resting Heart Rate and Inflammatory Biomarkers (High-Sensitivity C-Reactive Protein, Interleukin-6, and Fibrinogen) (from the Multi-Ethnic Study of...
- Comparison of a Novel Method vs the Friedewald Equation for Estimating Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Levels From the Standard Lipid Profile.
- Non-High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol, Guideline Targets, and Population Percentiles for Secondary Prevention in 1.3 Million Adults: The VLDL-2 Study (Very Large Da...
- Relation of Thoracic Aortic Distensibility to Left Ventricular Area (from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis [MESA]).
- Very Large Database of Lipids: Rationale and Design.
- Relation of Hepatic Steatosis to Atherogenic Dyslipidemia.
- Landmark lipid-lowering trials in the primary prevention of cardiovascular Disease.
- Delayed Heart Rate Recovery is Strongly Associated With Early and Late-Stage Prehypertension During Exercise Stress Testing.
- Association of resting heart rate with carotid and Aortic arterial stiffness: multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis.
- Statins for primary prevention of cardiovascular Disease: the benefits outweigh the risks.
- Absolute Coronary artery calcium score is the best predictor of non-calcified plaque involvement in patients with low calcium scores (1-100).
- Thromboxane A2 Generation, in the Absence of Platelet COX-1 Activity, in Patients With and Without Atherothrombotic Myocardial Infarction.
- Friedewald-estimated versus directly measured low-density lipoprotein cholesterol and treatment implications.
- ASK NOT What CRP Can Do for You.
- High-sensitivity C-reactive protein and cardiovascular Disease: a resolute belief or an elusive link?
- Computed tomography-derived cardiovascular risk markers, incident cardiovascular events, and all-cause mortality in nondiabetics: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atheroscler...
- A Clinician's Guide to the ABCs of Cardiovascular Disease Prevention: The Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Heart Disease and American College of Ca...
- Family history of Coronary heart disease and markers of subclinical cardiovascular disease: Where do we stand?
- Progression of Coronary calcium and incident Coronary heart disease events: MESA (Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis).
- Cardiovascular Disease prevention: matching evidence-based algorithms with individualized care.
- Impact of Fitness Versus Obesity on Routinely Measured Cardiometabolic Risk in Young, Healthy Adults.
- C-reactive protein level and the incidence of eligibility for statin therapy: the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis.
- Comparing the New European Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Guideline With Prior American Heart Association Guidelines: An Editorial Review.
- Cardiovascular effects of noninsulin, glucose-lowering agents: need for more outcomes data.
- Mortality rates in smokers and nonsmokers in the presence or absence of Coronary artery calcification.
- Relation of Uric Acid to Serum Levels of High-Sensitivity C-Reactive Protein, Triglycerides, and High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol and to Hepatic Steatosis.
- A Point-by-Point Response to Recent Arguments Against the Use of Statins in Primary Prevention: This Statement is Endorsed by the American Society for Preventive Cardi...
- Statin therapy for healthy men identified as "increased risk".
- Waiting for the National Cholesterol Education Program Adult Treatment Panel IV Guidelines, and in the Meantime, Some Challenges and Recommendations.
- Niacin and Statin Combination Therapy for Atherosclerosis Regression and Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease Events: Reconciling the AIM-HIGH (Atherothrombosis Interv...
- Potential Implications of Coronary Artery Calcium Testing for Guiding Aspirin Use Among Asymptomatic Individuals With Diabetes Mellitus.
- Potential Use of Coronary Artery Calcium Progression to Guide the Management of Patients at Risk for Coronary Artery Disease Events.
- A short-term biomarker modulation study of simvastatin in women at increased risk of a new breast cancer.
- The Association of Framingham and Reynolds Risk Scores With Incidence and Progression of Coronary Artery Calcification in MESA (Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis).
- Comparison of breast cancer recurrence risk and cardiovascular Disease incidence risk among postmenopausal women with breast cancer.
- Effects of Physical Activity on Cardiovascular Disease.
- Making the case for selective use of statins in the primary prevention setting.
- Differentiation of severe Coronary artery calcification in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.
- Association between sleep apnea, snoring, incident cardiovascular events and all-cause mortality in an adult population: MESA.
- Longitudinal predictors of progression of Carotid atherosclerosis in rheumatoid arthritis.
- Impact of Subclinical Atherosclerosis on Cardiovascular Disease Events in Individuals With Metabolic Syndrome and Diabetes: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.
- The association of bone density and calcified atherosclerosis is stronger in women without dyslipidemia: the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis.
- Predictors of Coronary Heart Disease Events Among Asymptomatic Persons With Low Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol MESA (Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis).
- The relationship of insulin resistance and extraCoronary calcification in the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis.
- The relationship between resting heart rate and incidence and progression of Coronary artery calcification: the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis (MESA).
- Calcium score reclassification how should baseline risk be measured?
- Impact of Coronary Computed Tomographic Angiography Results on Patient and Physician Behavior in a Low-Risk Population.
- Hepatic Steatosis, Obesity, and the Metabolic Syndrome Are Independently and Additively Associated With Increased Systemic Inflammation.
- Relation of mitral annular calcium and Coronary calcium (from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis [MESA]).
- "Actually, it is more of a guideline than a rule".
- Association between obesity, high-sensitivity C-reactive protein ?2 mg/L, and subclinical atherosclerosis: implications of JUPITER from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Ather...
- Association between High-Sensitivity C Reactive Protein and Coronary Plaque Subtypes Assessed by 64-slice Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography in an Asymptomatic P...
- Mortality in individuals without known Coronary artery disease but with discordance between the Framingham risk score and Coronary artery calcium.
Schools
Joan Sanford I Weill Medical College Of Cornell University
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Procedures Preformed
- Cardiac Catheterization (incl. Coronary Angiography)
- Cardiac Imaging
- Cardiac MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) of Heart or Chest
- Cardiac Myocardial Perfusion Imaging
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Conditions Treated
- Angina and Acute Coronary Syndrome
- Aortic Aneurysm
- Aortic Ectasia
- Aortic Valve Disease
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Doctors Specialties
- Cardiology
Accepted Insurances
- Aetna
- Amalgamated Clothing & Textile Workers Union WC
- Blue Card PPO
- Blue Choice Advantage
- Blue Choice Network POS
- Blue Preferred PPO
- Cigna HMO
- Cigna PPO
- Great West Healthcare-Cigna PPO
- Open Access Plus
- Commercial Insurance Company
- CoreSource
- Coventry Health Care
- Coventry Health Care of Delaware PPO
- Emblem Health
- First Health (Coventry Health Care) PPO
- Geisinger Health Plan
- GEHA
- Choice Care PPO
- MedHealthInsurance
- Medicaid
- Medicare MCR
- MultiPlan PPO
- PHCS Network PPO
- POMCO Group
- Tricare
- Choice Plus POS
- Navigate HMO
- Options PPO
- United Healthcare
Awards
- America's Top Doctors
- CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification
- Top Doctors:Baltimore Area
- Top Doctors:Washington-Baltimore
- Men's Health
- Top MD
- Super Doctor
- Fellow (FACC)
- Whos Who in Medicine and Healthcare
Education
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Johns Hopkins University -
Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University
Hospital
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Johns Hopkins Hospital
Drug Facts
| NPI NUMBER | 1396701074 | |
| NPPES Provider LastName | BLUMENTHAL | |
| NPPES Provider FirstName | ROGER | |
| NPPES Provider ZIPCode | 212870005 | |
| NPPES Provider State | MD | |
| Specialty Description | Cardiology | |
| Total Claim Count | 826.0 | |
| Distinct Opioid Count | 0.0 | |
| Opioid Claim Count | 0.0 | |
| Percent Opioid Claims | 0.0 |
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Medicare Facts
| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1396701074 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | BLUMENTHAL |
| First Name Of The Provider | ROGER |
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