Dr. Ikechukwu Ogbu, MD
Dr. Ogbu is a Board-Certified Internal Medicine physician with extensive experience managing both acute and chronic medical conditions, including diabetes, hypertension, and autoimmune disorders. He also oversees urgent inpatient cases in the hospital setting, collaborating closely with specialists, surgeons, and nursing teams to optimize patient outcomes.
Recent publications
- Snoring Survivors: OSA, CPAP and in-hospital cardiovascular outcomes
Impact of obstructive sleep apnea and continuous positive airway pressure use on in-hospital mortality, length of stay and costs among patients hospitalized with acute cardiovascular disease.
- Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Takotsubo Syndrome
Relationship between cardiovascular risk factors and composite cardiovascular outcomes in patients hospitalized with Takotsubo Syndrome: a nationwide analysis.
- Sleep-disordered breathing and brain function
SDB (OSA and CSA) as an independent risk factor for cerebral small vessel disease, stroke, heart failure, arrhythmias, and other cardiovascular disorders.
- Drug therapies in cardiac amyloidosis
Diagnostic and therapeutic challenges in cardiac amyloidosis, an infiltrative, restrictive cardiomyopathy with historically poor prognosis.
- Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and cardiovascular events
NAFLD increases cardiovascular disease risk irrespective of other risk factors; large-scale sex and race differences remain poorly understood.
- Sleep-disordered breathing and cardiac arrhythmias
Intermittent hypoxia, autonomic dysfunction, and intrathoracic pressure changes drive arrhythmia risk; CPAP therapy effectively reduces this risk.
- Cannabis use and inflammatory bowel disease
Major adverse cardiac and cerebrovascular events (MACCE) associated with cannabis use disorder in hospitalized IBD patients.
- Cardiovascular outcomes in geriatric CKD patients with OSA
Trends in combined cardiovascular events among geriatric chronic kidney disease patients with and without obstructive sleep apnea.
- GLP-1 agonists and heart attack outcomes
Effects of GLP-1 on ischemia-reperfusion injury in heart attack patients undergoing stent procedures or open heart surgery.
- Prevalence and predictors of pulmonary hypertension in IPF
Nationwide analysis of pulmonary hypertension prevalence and predictors among hospitalized IPF patients.
- Clinical trials in coronary artery disease and heart failure
Late-breaking science from the 2023 American Heart Association scientific session guiding CAD and HF management strategies.
- Broken heart syndrome and happy heart syndrome
Takotsubo cardiomyopathy triggered by negative and positive emotional experiences — broken heart syndrome (BHS) and happy heart syndrome (HHS).