Search Results - "Samani, Nilesh J."
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High rates of non-adherence to antihypertensive treatment revealed by high-performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (HP LC-MS/MS) urine analysis
Published in Heart (British Cardiac Society) (01-06-2014)“…Non-adherence to therapy is an important cause of suboptimal blood pressure control but few practical tools exist to accurately and routinely detect it. We…”
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Genomic prediction of coronary heart disease
Published in European heart journal (14-11-2016)“…Genetics plays an important role in coronary heart disease (CHD) but the clinical utility of genomic risk scores (GRSs) relative to clinical risk scores, such…”
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Mendelian randomization of blood lipids for coronary heart disease
Published in European heart journal (01-03-2015)“…To investigate the causal role of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) and triglycerides in coronary heart disease (CHD) using multiple instrumental…”
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DNA methylation and body-mass index: a genome-wide analysis
Published in The Lancet (British edition) (07-06-2014)“…Summary Background Obesity is a major health problem that is determined by interactions between lifestyle and environmental and genetic factors. Although…”
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The clinical significance of interleukin‐6 in heart failure: results from the BIOSTAT‐CHF study
Published in European journal of heart failure (01-08-2019)“…Aims Inflammation is a central process in the pathophysiology of heart failure (HF), but trials targeting tumour necrosis factor (TNF)‐α were largely…”
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ANGPTL3 Deficiency and Protection Against Coronary Artery Disease
Published in Journal of the American College of Cardiology (25-04-2017)“…Abstract Background Familial combined hypolipidemia, a Mendelian condition characterized by substantial reductions in all 3 major lipid fractions, is caused by…”
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Polygenic risk scores in cardiovascular risk prediction: A cohort study and modelling analyses
Published in PLoS medicine (14-01-2021)“…Polygenic risk scores (PRSs) can stratify populations into cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk groups. We aimed to quantify the potential advantage of adding…”
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Human metabolic individuality in biomedical and pharmaceutical research
Published in Nature (London) (01-09-2011)“…Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified many risk loci for complex diseases, but effect sizes are typically small and information on the…”
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Risk Factors for Nonadherence to Antihypertensive Treatment
Published in Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. 1979) (01-06-2017)“…Nonadherence to antihypertensive treatment is a critical contributor to suboptimal blood pressure control. There are limited and heterogeneous data on the risk…”
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Selenium and outcome in heart failure
Published in European journal of heart failure (01-08-2020)“…Aims Severe deficiency of the essential trace element selenium can cause myocardial dysfunction although the mechanism at cellular level is uncertain. Whether,…”
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Phenotypic Characterization of Genetically Lowered Human Lipoprotein(a) Levels
Published in Journal of the American College of Cardiology (27-12-2016)“…Abstract Background Genomic analyses have suggested that the LPA gene and its associated plasma biomarker, lipoprotein(a) (Lp[a]), represent a causal risk…”
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Adult height and risk of 50 diseases: a combined epidemiological and genetic analysis
Published in BMC medicine (25-10-2018)“…Adult height is associated with risk of several diseases, but the breadth of such associations and whether these associations are primary or due to confounding…”
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Telomere length, risk of coronary heart disease, and statin treatment in the West of Scotland Primary Prevention Study: a nested case-control study
Published in The Lancet (British edition) (13-01-2007)“…Summary Background Inter-individual differences in biological ageing could affect susceptibility to coronary heart disease. Our aim was to determine whether…”
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The metabochip, a custom genotyping array for genetic studies of metabolic, cardiovascular, and anthropometric traits
Published in PLoS genetics (01-08-2012)“…Genome-wide association studies have identified hundreds of loci for type 2 diabetes, coronary artery disease and myocardial infarction, as well as for related…”
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Waist‐to‐hip ratio and mortality in heart failure
Published in European journal of heart failure (01-09-2018)“…Aims A higher body mass index (BMI) is associated with better survival in heart failure (HF) patients, also known as the obesity paradox. However, BMI does not…”
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Reproducibility of telomere length assessment: an international collaborative study
Published in International journal of epidemiology (01-10-2015)“…Telomere length is a putative biomarker of ageing, morbidity and mortality. Its application is hampered by lack of widely applicable reference ranges and…”
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Integrative genomics reveals novel molecular pathways and gene networks for coronary artery disease
Published in PLoS genetics (01-07-2014)“…The majority of the heritability of coronary artery disease (CAD) remains unexplained, despite recent successes of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in…”
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Repeated Replication and a Prospective Meta-Analysis of the Association Between Chromosome 9p21.3 and Coronary Artery Disease
Published in Circulation (New York, N.Y.) (01-04-2008)“…Recently, genome-wide association studies identified variants on chromosome 9p21.3 as affecting the risk of coronary artery disease (CAD). We investigated the…”
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Genomewide Association Analysis of Coronary Artery Disease
Published in The New England journal of medicine (02-08-2007)“…Using the technique of genomewide association analysis, the authors found a locus on chromosome 9 (9p21.3) that is strongly associated with familial coronary…”
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Genetic Variants Influencing Circulating Lipid Levels and Risk of Coronary Artery Disease
Published in Arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular biology (01-11-2010)“…OBJECTIVE—Genetic studies might provide new insights into the biological mechanisms underlying lipid metabolism and risk of CAD. We therefore conducted a…”
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