As a preventive cardiologist focused on lifestyle changes to improve cardiac health, Romit Bhattacharya, M.D., tries to practice what he preaches. When he’s not at the lab or clinic, he might be found conducting business from his treadmill desk at home in Cambridge, using every opportunity he can to “reduce my sedentary time,” as he puts it.
That’s where he is when he arrives to our video interview in full stride, as if it’s the most natural thing in the world — and it turns out it is. Over the next 30 minutes of nearly nonstop talking, his pace doesn’t falter in steps, voice, or breath. (Go ahead, try doing that.)
It’s a fitting backdrop to a discussion of his work as a clinician-scientist at Mass General Brigham (MGB), where he investigates how lifestyle interventions can prevent cardiac disease. He’s particularly interested in the mechanisms underlying how dietary patterns influence cardiovascular health…
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