Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have launched a new four-year, $3.7 million multidisciplinary research center to investigate the relationship between sedentary behavior and cardiovascular risk factors in Latinas, who have a disproportionately higher chance of developing heart disease than the general population.

The study is part of a new Strategically Focused Research Network created and funded by the American Heart Association (AHA). … Read the Full Story from the UC San Diego Newsroom

Dorothy Sears, PhD

Within the multidisciplinary research center, Dorothy Sears, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Endocrinology & Metabolism, will conduct studies to find and characterize biomarkers of cardiovascular disease risk associated with sedentary behavior.