Updated August 15– At the center of this week’s renewed debate on salt was Salim Yusuf, the long influential and occasionally controversial cardiology researcher and clinical trialist based at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. I spoke with Yusuf before the publication of the New England Journal of Medicine papers, which include his own two papers from the PURE study….
An Expert’s Perspective: Why Salt Is Not Like Tobacco And Why Guidelines Are Tricky
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When You’re Hot You’re Hot: Salim Yusuf Second Most Influential Scientist in 2011
April 25, 2012 by 1 Comment
McMaster University’s Salim Yusuf has tied for second place in the annual ranking of the “hottest” scientific researchers, according to Thomson Reuter’s Science Watch. Yusuf was a co-author of 13 of the most cited papers in 2011. Only one other researcher, genomic pioneer Eric Lander of the Broad Institute of MIT, had more highly-cited papers than Yusuf. Two of…
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