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Prevent heart disease long before it ever becomes an emergency.

Board-certified preventive cardiologist Dr. Kaustubh Dabhadkar shares the evidence-based habits that protect your heart, in plain and trustworthy language.

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Dr. Kaustubh Dabhadkar
Dr. Kaustubh Dabhadkar
Novant Health Heart & Vascular Institute
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MPH
FACC
130,915
Research citations (Google Scholar)
19
h-index · 20 i10-index
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Patients guided in prevention
ACC
Preventive Cardiology leadership
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Evidence over fear. Every day Dr. Dabhadkar breaks down the studies, myths, and small habits that protect your heart, in plain language.

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Viral heart-health claims, fact-checked against the actual research.
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About

Evidence, not fear.

—Board-certified in Adult Cardiology, Advanced Echocardiography & Nuclear Cardiology
—Novant Health Heart & Vascular Institute, Charlotte, NC
—Former ACC Preventive Cardiology Leadership Council member
—ACC Healthcare Innovation Leadership Committee
—130,915 research citations · h-index 19 · i10-index 20 (Google Scholar)
—Creator of CliniWiz.com, an AI-powered medical evidence platform

I'm a preventive cardiologist in Charlotte. My path started at Emory, where I watched a patient go from diabetes and hypertension to running half-marathons, off medication.

That taught me the real power of prevention. Since then I've helped thousands of patients protect their hearts before anything goes wrong, and I share what actually works with everyone else, every day, online.

The internet is loud with heart-health misinformation. My job is to be the calm, credentialed signal in the noise: reading the studies so you don't have to, and translating them into a handful of things you can actually do.

Kaustubh Dabhadkar, MD, MPH, FACC
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