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Dr. Srividya Kidambi receives ASH Young Investigator Travel Award

May 6, 2008 College News - Srividya Kidambi, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine (Endocrinology, Metabolism and Clinical Nutrition), received a Young Investigator Travel Award from the American Society of Hypertension (ASH) to attend the society’s 23rd annual scientific meeting May 14-17 in New Orleans.
 
Dr. Kidambi received the award based on her abstract titled, Hypertension, insulin resistance and aldosterone: A deadly triad in African American males, which investigates how hypertension, insulin resistance and plasma aldosterone are inter-related in African American men compared to African American women. The goal of the study was to determine if certain risk factors for cardiovascular disease such as insulin resistance affect men and women differently.
 
The ASH Young Investigators Travel award provides the recipient with monetary support to cover travel and registration costs and for the annual meeting. Twenty are given out each year.
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