Riyaz Patel: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Academic
- Role
- Professor of cardiology at University College London and clinical lead for preventive cardiology at Barts Heart Centre
- Quoted on
- Heart disease & stroke, Hospital discharge / bed-blocking
- Tracked press citations
- 3
- Most recently quoted
- 10 Sept 2026
- First quoted
- 27 Aug 2026
“Estimates suggest there are about 4 million people in the UK living with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, who remain at very high risk of subsequent or further heart attacks and strokes, and related deaths despite our best available treatments.”
What Riyaz Patel has said
“The exact mechanism as to how this drug leads to these benefits is still being investigated but is partly attributed to multiple parallel metabolic and vascular health benefits”
clinical lead for preventive cardiology at Barts Heart Centre · Heart disease & stroke · 10 Sept 2026 · Wegovy in patients with CVD – who will be eligible under NICE plans ↗
“Overall, a really exciting development, for patients and doctors, giving us another powerful tool to reduce CVD [cardiovascular disease] risk.”
professor of cardiology at UCL · Hospital discharge / bed-blocking · 27 Aug 2026 · NHS England to offer weight-loss drugs to 1.2m people to reduce risk of heart attacks and strokes ↗
Where Riyaz Patel has been quoted
- NICE recommends semaglutide injections to prevent heart attack and strokepulsetoday.co.uk · 10 Sept 2026
- Wegovy in patients with CVD – who will be eligible under NICE planspulsetoday.co.uk · 10 Sept 2026
- NHS England to offer weight-loss drugs to 1.2m people to reduce risk of heart attacks and strokestheguardian.com · 27 Aug 2026
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