Professor, Radiology, Tufts Medical Center
Radiology
Dr. Joseph F. Polak, MD
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Joseph F. Polak is an expert in the field of Radiology. Dr. Joseph F. Polak is a published MD. He published 99 publications, including: 'Carotid Atherosclerosis and Cerebral Microbleeds: The Framingham Heart Study.' Doctor Joseph F. Polak, MD accepts all Medicare patients.
Publications
- Association of subclinical atherosclerosis using carotid intima-media thickness, carotid plaque, and coronary calcium score with left ventricular dyssynchrony: The mul...
- Association of common carotid artery Doppler-determined dicrotic notch velocity with the left ventricular ejection fraction.
- P-selectin and subclinical and clinical atherosclerosis: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA).
- Value of Complete Full-length Lower Extremity Sonography in Patients Undergoing Computed Tomographic Pulmonary Angiography.
- Ideal cardiovascular health: associations with biomarkers and subclinical disease and impact on incidence of cardiovascular disease in the framingham offspring study.
- What do carotid intima-media thickness and plaque add to the prediction of stroke and cardiovascular disease risk in older adults? The cardiovascular health study.
- Healthy Lifestyle Change and Subclinical Atherosclerosis in Young Adults: Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) Study.
- Associations of Common Carotid Intima-Media Thickness with Coronary Heart Disease Risk Factors and Events Vary with Distance from the Carotid Bulb.
- Association of Parity With Carotid Diameter and Distensibility Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.
- Systemic inflammation and cardiovascular risk factors predict rapid progression of atherosclerosis in rheumatoid arthritis.
- Mediation of Cardiovascular Risk Factor Effects Through Subclinical Vascular Disease: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.
- Fibroblast Growth Factor-23 and Cardiovascular Disease in the General Population: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.
- Incident Stroke Is Associated With Common Carotid Artery Diameter and Not Common Carotid Artery Intima-Media Thickness.
- Association of exhaled carbon monoxide with subclinical cardiovascular disease and their conjoint impact on the incidence of cardiovascular outcomes.
- Genome-wide Association Analysis of Blood-Pressure Traits in African-Ancestry Individuals Reveals Common Associated Genes in African and Non-African Populations.
- Association of resting heart rate with carotid and aortic arterial stiffness: multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis.
- Examining the association between salivary cortisol levels and subclinical measures of atherosclerosis: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.
- Associations of aortic distensibility and arterial elasticity with long-term visit-to-visit blood pressure variability: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA).
- Relation of Leptin to Left Ventricular Hypertrophy (from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis).
- Fine particulate air pollution and the progression of carotid intima-medial thickness: a prospective cohort study from the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis and ai...
- Carotid Artery Plaque and Progression of Coronary Artery Calcium: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.
- Competing cardiovascular outcomes associated with subclinical atherosclerosis (from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis).
- Pulse Pressure and Subclinical Cardiovascular Disease in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.
- Loci influencing blood pressure identified using a cardiovascular gene-centric array.
- Sancta simplicitas!
- Measuring Carotid Intima-Media Thickness: Simple Protocols Have Advantages.
- Variations in Common Carotid Artery Intima-Media Thickness during the Cardiac Cycle: Implications for Cardiovascular Risk Assessment.
- Measuring carotid artery intima-media thickness: simplicity versus complexity?
- HIV infection and progression of carotid and coronary atherosclerosis: the CARE study.
- Common Carotid Artery Intima-Media Thickness Progression as a Predictor of Stroke in Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.
- Carotid-wall intima-media thickness and cardiovascular events.
- Predictors of Coronary Heart Disease Events Among Asymptomatic Persons With Low Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol MESA (Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis).
- Sex differences in subclinical atherosclerosis by race/ethnicity in the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis.
- Inter-reader differences in common carotid artery intima-media thickness: implications for cardiovascular risk assessment and vascular age determination.
- Association of Lipoprotein-associated Phospholipase A2 and Endothelial Function in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA).
- Association of Small Artery Elasticity With Incident Cardiovascular Disease in Older Adults: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.
- Associations of cardiovascular risk factors, carotid intima-media thickness and left ventricular mass with inter-adventitial diameters of the common carotid artery: Th...
- Associations of Edge-Detected and Manual-Traced Common Carotid Intima-Media Thickness Measurements With Framingham Risk Factors: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclero...
- Usefulness of Baseline Obesity to Predict Development of a High Ankle Brachial Index (from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis).
- Segment-specific association between plasma homocysteine level and carotid artery intima-media thickness in the Framingham Offspring Study.
- Kidney stones and subclinical atherosclerosis in young adults: the CARDIA study.
- Long-term Exposure to Airborne Particles and Arterial Stiffness: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA).
- Cardiovascular imaging for assessing cardiovascular risk in asymptomatic men versus women: the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis (MESA).
- Associations of carotid artery intima-media thickness (IMT) with risk factors and prevalent cardiovascular disease: comparison of mean common carotid artery IMT with m...
- Micronutrient concentrations and subclinical atherosclerosis in adults with HIV.
- Endothelial dysfunction and the risk of hypertension: the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis.
- Segment-specific associations of carotid intima-media thickness with cardiovascular risk factors: the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) study.
- Association between carotid intima-media thickness and pericardial fat in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA).
- Relationship of carotid distensibility and thoracic aorta calcification: multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis.
- Individual pathogens, pathogen burden and markers of subclinical atherosclerosis: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.
- Dietary patterns and incident cardiovascular disease in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.
- Do socioeconomic gradients in subclinical atherosclerosis vary according to acculturation level? Analyses of Mexican-Americans in the multi-ethnic study of atheroscler...
- Predictive value of brachial flow-mediated dilation for incident cardiovascular events in a population-based study: the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis.
- Association of the endogenous nitric oxide synthase inhibitor ADMA with carotid artery intimal media thickness in the Framingham Heart Study offspring cohort.
- Carotid intima-media thickness: an early marker of cardiovascular disease.
- Carotid artery atherosclerosis, MRI indices of brain ischemia, aging, and cognitive impairment: the Framingham study.
- Cystatin C and carotid intima-media thickness in asymptomatic adults: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA).
- Prevalence and progression of subclinical atherosclerosis in younger adults with low short-term but high lifetime estimated risk for cardiovascular disease: the corona...
- Prevalence and correlates of silent cerebral infarcts in the Framingham offspring study.
- Association of carotid artery atherosclerosis with circulating biomarkers of extracellular matrix remodeling: the Framingham Offspring Study.
- Prospective evaluation of the role of atherosclerosis on cerebral atrophy: pilot study.
- Soluble P-selectin, SELP polymorphisms, and atherosclerotic risk in European-American and African-African young adults: the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young A...
- Arterial stiffness is associated with regional ventricular systolic and diastolic dysfunction: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.
- Arterial compliance and retinal vascular caliber in cerebrovascular disease.
- Burden and prognostic importance of subclinical cardiovascular disease in overweight and obese individuals.
- Association of carotid artery intima-media thickness, plaques, and C-reactive protein with future cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality: the Cardiovascular He...
- Prevalence and prognostic impact of subclinical cardiovascular disease in individuals with the metabolic syndrome and diabetes.
- Metabolic syndrome and subclinical atherosclerosis in patients infected with HIV.
- Assessment by cardiovascular magnetic resonance, electron beam computed tomography, and carotid ultrasonography of the distribution of subclinical atherosclerosis acro...
- Subclinical atherosclerosis and incipient regional myocardial dysfunction in asymptomatic individuals: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA).
- Variants at the APOA5 locus, association with carotid atherosclerosis, and modification by obesity: the Framingham Study.
- Unusual case of 2 renal cell carcinoma metastases ipsilateral to an occluded internal carotid artery.
- Diabetic cardiomyopathy and subclinical cardiovascular disease: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA).
- Nerve atrophy in severe trigeminal neuralgia: noninvasive confirmation at MR imaging--initial experience.
- Risk factors for declining ankle-brachial index in men and women 65 years or older: the Cardiovascular Health Study.
- C-reactive protein and the 10-year incidence of coronary heart disease in older men and women: the cardiovascular health study.
- Compliance with expert population-based dietary guidelines and lower odds of carotid atherosclerosis in women: the Framingham Nutrition Studies.
- Ultrasound energy and the dissolution of thrombus.
- Association of APOE genotype with carotid atherosclerosis in men and women: the Framingham Heart Study.
- Absence of association between polymorphisms in the hemostatic factor pathway genes and carotid intimal medial thickness: the Framingham Heart Study.
- Early adaptation of human lower extremity Vein grafts: wall stiffness changes accompany geometric remodeling.
- Arterial injuries: a sonographic approach.
- Genomewide linkage analysis for internal carotid artery intimal medial thickness: evidence for linkage to chromosome 12.
- Alcohol consumption and carotid atherosclerosis in older adults: the Cardiovascular Health Study.
- Carotid artery stenosis: gray-scale and Doppler US diagnosis--Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound Consensus Conference.
- Carotid intima-media thickness is associated with premature parental coronary heart disease: the Framingham Heart Study.
- C-reactive protein, carotid intima-media thickness, and incidence of ischemic stroke in the elderly: the Cardiovascular Health Study.
- The prevalence and risk factors of retinal microvascular abnormalities in older persons: The Cardiovascular Health Study.
- Dietary patterns and the odds of carotid atherosclerosis in women: the Framingham Nutrition Studies.
- Intima-media thickness: a tool for atherosclerosis imaging and event prediction.
- Association of C-reactive protein with carotid atherosclerosis in men and women: the Framingham Heart Study.
- Cardiovascular risk factors and Venous thromboembolism incidence: the longitudinal investigation of thromboembolism etiology.
- Cost-Effectiveness of Coronary Artery Calcium Testing for Coronary Heart and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Prediction to Guide Statin Allocation: The Multi-Ethnic Study ...
- Genetics of coronary artery calcification among African Americans, a meta-analysis.
- Particulate matter components and subclinical atherosclerosis: common approaches to estimating exposure in a Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis cross-sectional study.
- Detailed analysis of association between common single nucleotide polymorphisms and subclinical atherosclerosis: The Multi-ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.
- Common genetic variants and subclinical atherosclerosis: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA).
- Carotid Atherosclerosis and Cerebral Microbleeds: The Framingham Heart Study.
Schools
McGill University Faculty of Medicine
Royal Victoria Hospital
Peter Bent Brigham Hospital
Procedures Preformed
- Vascular Duplex Ultrasonography and Plethysmography
Conditions Treated
- Acute Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT)
- Venous Compression
Doctors Specialties
- Interventional Radiology
- Nuclear Radiology
- Radiology
Accepted Insurances
Education
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Brigham and Women's Hospital -
McGill University Faculty of Medicine
Hospital
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Tufts Medical Center
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| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1467562868 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | POLAK |
| First Name Of The Provider | JOSEPH |
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