Description of Research Expertise

lipids, cholesterol, preventive cardiology, clinical trials, lipoprotein(a), familial hypercholesterolemia

Selected Publications

Marlys L. Koschinsky, Archna Bajaj, Michael B. Boffa, Dave L. Dixon, Keith C. Ferdinand, Samuel S. Gidding, Edward A. Gill, Terry A. Jacobson, Erin D. Michos, Maya S. Safarova, Daniel E. Soffer, Pam R. Taub, Michael J. Wilkinson, Don P. Wilson, Christie M. Ballantyne: A focused update to the 2019 NLA scientific statement on use of lipoprotein(a) in clinical practice Journal of Clinical Lipidology 18 (3): e308-e319,2024.

Wilkinson MJ, Bajaj A, Brousseau ME, Taub PR: Harnessing RNA Interference for Cholesterol Lowering: The Bench to Bedside Story of Inclisiran JAHA 13 (6): e032031,2024.

Daniel J Rader, Archna Bajaj: Lipoprotein(a) and Oxidized Phospholipids: Partners in Crime or Individual Perpetrators in Cardiovascular Disease? JACC 81 (18): 1793-1796,2023.

Archna Bajaj, Marina Cuchel: From supravalvular to valvular aortic stenosis: are statins contributing tot he phenotypic shift in homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia? European Heart Journal 43 (34): 3240-3242,2022.

Bajaj A, Rader DJ.: Antisense oligonucleotides for atherosclerotic disease Nat Med 26 (4): 471-472,2020.

Bajaj A, Cuchel M.: Homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia: what treatments are on the horizon? Curr Opin Lipidol 31 (3): 119-124,2020.

Bajaj A, Ihegword A, Qiu C, Small AM, Wei WQ, Bastarache L, Feng Q, Kember RL, Risman M, Bloom RD, Birtwell DL, Williams H, Shaffer CM, Chen J, Center RG, Denny JC, Rader DJ, Stein CM, Damrauer SM, Susztak K.: Phenome-wide association analysis suggests the APOL1 linked disease spectrum primarily drives kidney-specific pathways Kidney Int 97 (5): 1032-1041,2020.

Bajaj A, Xie D, Cedillo-Couvert E, Charleston J, Chen J, Deo R, Feldman HI, Go AS, He J, Horwitz E, Kallem R, Rahman M, Weir MR, Anderson AH, Rader DJ; CRIC Study Investigators.: Lipids, Apolipoproteins, and Risk of Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease in Persons With CKD Am J Kidney Dis 73 (6): 827-836,2019.

Rader DJ, Bajaj A, Khetarpal SA.: Deep Apolipoprotein Proteomics to Uncover Mechanisms of Coronary Disease Risk J Am Coll Cardiol 69 (7): 801-804,2017.

Bajaj A, Damrauer SM, Anderson AH, Xie D, Budoff MJ, Go AS, He J, Lash JP, Ojo A, Post WS, Rahman M, Reilly MP, Saleheen D, Townsend RR, Chen J, Rader DJ; Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort (CRIC) Study Investigators*.: Lipoprotein(a) and Risk of Myocardial Infarction and Death in Chronic Kidney Disease: Findings From the CRIC Study (Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort) Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol 37 (10): 2017.

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