Professor, Medicine, University of Alabama School of Medicine
Cardiology
Dr. Vera A. Bittner, MD
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Vera A. Bittner practices Cardiology. She researched medicine at University of South Alabama College of Medicine. University of South Alabama College of Medicine is ranked 83/35 in Research/PrimaryCare. She over the years received 3 awards: "Regional Top Doctor", "Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification" and "Fellow (FACC)". Vera Bittner is also published. She has 44 publications published. The lastest publication: "Managing Residual Risk After Myocardial Infarction Among Individuals with Low Cholesterol Levels.' Vera Bittner accepts Medicare payments and is listed with Medicare.gov.
Publications
- Statins and Cognitive Side Effects: What Cardiologists Need to Know.
- Managing Residual Risk After Myocardial Infarction Among Individuals with Low Cholesterol Levels.
- The Role of the Clinical Pharmacist in the Care of Patients With Cardiovascular Disease.
- Trends in the Use of Nonstatin Lipid-Lowering Therapy Among Patients With Coronary Heart Disease: A Retrospective Cohort Study in the Medicare Population 2007 to 2011.
- Comprehensive Cardiovascular Risk Factor Control Improves Survival: The BARI 2D Trial.
- The Association Between Life-Space and Health Care Utilization in Older Adults with Heart Failure.
- Impact of gait speed and instrumental activities of daily living on all-cause mortality in adults ≥65 years with Heart failure.
- Chest pain characteristics and gender in the early diagnosis of Acute myocardial infarction.
- Impact of female sex on lipid lowering, clinical outcomes, and adverse effects in atorvastatin trials.
- Statin use following hospitalization among Medicare beneficiaries with a secondary discharge diagnosis of Acute myocardial infarction.
- Underutilization of high-intensity statin therapy after hospitalization for coronary Heart disease.
- Ability of low antihypertensive medication adherence to predict statin discontinuation and low statin adherence in patients initiating treatment after a Coronary event.
- New ACC-AHA cholesterol guidelines significantly increase potential eligibility for statin treatment.
- Functional Status and Outcome After Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting.
- Left Anterior Descending Coronary Artery Occlusion Secondary to Metastatic Squamous Cell Carcinoma Presenting as ST-Segment-Elevation Myocardial Infarction.
- Secular changes in rates of coronary Heart disease, fatal coronary Heart disease, and out-of-hospital fatal coronary Heart disease.
- Achievement of Optimal Medical Therapy Goals for US Adults with Coronary Artery Disease: Results from the REasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke (REGA...
- Anginal Symptoms, Coronary Artery Disease, and Adverse Outcomes in Black and White Women: The NHLBI-Sponsored Women's Ischemia Syndrome Evaluation (WISE) Study.
- Clinical implications of the Women's Ischemia Syndrome Evaluation: inter-relationships between symptoms, psychosocial factors and cardiovascular outcomes.
- Trends in the prevalence, awareness, treatment and control of high low density lipoprotein-cholesterol among United States adults from 1999-2000 through 2009-2010.
- Exercise standards for testing and training: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association.
- Reply: To PMID 23177293.
- Risk factor control for Coronary artery disease secondary prevention in large randomized trials.
- Anxiety associations with cardiac symptoms, angiographic disease severity, and healthcare utilization: The NHLBI-sponsored Women's Ischemia Syndrome Evaluation.
- Prevention of Heart failure in older adults may require higher levels of physical activity than needed for other cardiovascular events.
- Association of race and sex with risk of incident acute coronary Heart disease events.
- LDL Lowering After Acute Coronary Syndrome: Is Lower Better?
- Medical Director Responsibilities for Outpatient Cardiac Rehabilitation/Secondary Prevention Programs: 2012 Update: A STATEMENT FOR HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS FROM THE ...
- Vitamin D levels do not predict cardiovascular events in statin-treated patients with stable Coronary disease.
- Cardiac Rehabilitation: Call to Action for Healthcare Providers.
- Referral, Enrollment, and Delivery of Cardiac Rehabilitation/Secondary Prevention Programs at Clinical Centers and Beyond: A Presidential Advisory From the American He...
- Clinical utility of inflammatory markers and advanced lipoprotein testing: Advice from an expert panel of lipid specialists.
- The triglyceride/high-density lipoprotein cholesterol ratio predicts all-cause mortality in women with suspected Myocardial ischemia: a report from the Women's Ischemi...
- Depression and cardiovascular health care costs among women with suspected myocardial ischemia: prospective results from the WISE (Women's Ischemia Syndrome Evaluation...
- Comparison of effectiveness of atorvastatin 10 mg versus 80 mg in reducing major cardiovascular events and repeat revascularization in patients with previous percutane...
- Training community health workers to reduce health disparities in Alabama's Black Belt: the Pine Apple Heart Disease and Stroke Project.
- Glucose, blood pressure, and lipid control in older people with and without diabetes mellitus: the Cardiovascular Health Study.
- Lipid-lowering therapy in patients 75 years and older: clinical priority or superfluous therapy?
- An assessment by the Statin Cognitive Safety Task Force: 2014 update.
- Discordance between high non-HDL cholesterol and high LDL-cholesterol among US adults.
- Cardiovascular and Mortality Risk of Apparent Resistant Hypertension in Women With Suspected Myocardial Ischemia: A Report From the NHLBI-Sponsored WISE Study.
- Tree-based identification of subgroups for time-varying covariate survival data.
- Carotid artery distensibility and hormone therapy and menopause: the Los Angeles Atherosclerosis Study.
Schools
University Of South Alabama College Of Medicine
Nc Bapt HospBowman Gray
University Ala
Procedures Preformed
- Ablation for Treatment of Cardiac Arrhythmias
- Cardiac Catheterization (incl. Coronary Angiography)
- Cardiac Imaging
- Cardiac Myocardial Perfusion Imaging
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Conditions Treated
- Aneurysm and Dissection of Heart
- Angina and Acute Coronary Syndrome
- Aortic Aneurysm
- Aortic Dissection
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Doctors Specialties
- Cardiology
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Regional Top Doctor
- Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification
- Fellow (FACC)
Education
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University of Alabama Medical Center -
Wake Forest University -
University of South Alabama College of Medicine
Hospital
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University of Alabama Hospital -
Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Drug Facts
| NPI NUMBER | 1699720151 | |
| NPPES Provider LastName | BITTNER | |
| NPPES Provider FirstName | VERA | |
| NPPES Provider ZIPCode | 352332110 | |
| NPPES Provider State | AL | |
| Specialty Description | Cardiology | |
| Total Claim Count | 1230.0 | |
| Distinct Opioid Count | 0.0 | |
| Opioid Claim Count | 0.0 | |
| Percent Opioid Claims | 0.0 |
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Medicare Facts
| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1699720151 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | BITTNER |
| First Name Of The Provider | VERA |
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