Meeting 3: Dr. Alvin Ang
Area of Expertise: (Atrial Fibrillation/Heart Failure) + Framingham Heart Study Dataset (Conducted Research since 1988)

Dr. Ting Fang Alvin Ang is the Research Assistant Professor at the Department of Anatomy and Neurology.

 

He also works with the Framingham Heart Study, primarily focused on data analyses.

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His Info: https://www.bumc.bu.edu/busm/profile/ting-fang-alvin-ang/

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Main Points Made:

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• FHS is a long format dataset (Multiple observations for one single participant)

• Most published papers come from Gen 1, Gen 2, and Gen 3, which are primarily white populations

  • It May be difficult to generalize it to the non-white population in America​

• May not represent the socioeconomic extremes because Framingham, MA is a middle-class community. 

• FHS is a prospective study. Collected data undergoes quality control before being updated to the dataset

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