A Shankar

Summary

Affiliation: West Virginia University
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Urinary bisphenol A and hypertension in a multiethnic sample of US adults
    Anoop Shankar
    Department of Community Medicine, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, WV 26506 9190, USA
    J Environ Public Health 2012:481641. 2012
  2. ncbi Retinal microvascular changes and the risk of developing obesity: population-based cohort study
    Anoop Shankar
    Department of Community Medicine, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, West Virginia 26506, USA
    Microcirculation 18:655-62. 2011
  3. ncbi Relationship between Urinary Bisphenol A Levels and Diabetes Mellitus
    Anoop Shankar
    Department of Community Medicine, West Virginia University School of Medicine, P O Box 9190, Morgantown, West Virginia 26506 9190
    J Clin Endocrinol Metab 96:3822-6. 2011
  4. ncbi Sleep duration and self-rated health: the national health interview survey 2008
    Anoop Shankar
    Department of Community Medicine, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, WV 26505 9190, USA
    Sleep 34:1173-7. 2011
  5. ncbi Perfluoroalkyl chemicals and chronic kidney disease in US adults
    Anoop Shankar
    Department of Community Medicine, School of Medicine, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506, USA
    Am J Epidemiol 174:893-900. 2011
  6. ncbi Markers of inflammation predict the long-term risk of developing chronic kidney disease: a population-based cohort study
    Anoop Shankar
    Department of Community Medicine, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA
    Kidney Int 80:1231-8. 2011
  7. ncbi Relationship between serum cystatin C and hypertension among US adults without clinically recognized chronic kidney disease
    Anoop Shankar
    Department of Community Medicine, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, WV, USA
    J Am Soc Hypertens 5:378-84. 2011
  8. ncbi Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin d levels and prediabetes among subjects free of diabetes
    Anoop Shankar
    Department of Community Medicine, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA
    Diabetes Care 34:1114-9. 2011
  9. ncbi Insufficient rest or sleep and its relation to cardiovascular disease, diabetes and obesity in a national, multiethnic sample
    Anoop Shankar
    Department of Community Medicine, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America
    PLoS ONE 5:e14189. 2010
  10. ncbi Sleep duration and coronary heart disease mortality among Chinese adults in Singapore: a population-based cohort study
    Anoop Shankar
    Department of Community Medicine, West Virginia University School of Medicine, 1 Medical Center Drive, PO Box 9190, Morgantown, WV 26506 9190, USA
    Am J Epidemiol 168:1367-73. 2008

Detail Information

Publications21

  1. ncbi Urinary bisphenol A and hypertension in a multiethnic sample of US adults
    Anoop Shankar
    Department of Community Medicine, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, WV 26506 9190, USA
    J Environ Public Health 2012:481641. 2012
    ..However, no previous human study has examined the association between markers of BPA exposure and hypertension...
  2. ncbi Retinal microvascular changes and the risk of developing obesity: population-based cohort study
    Anoop Shankar
    Department of Community Medicine, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, West Virginia 26506, USA
    Microcirculation 18:655-62. 2011
    ..In contrast, few prospective studies have examined the association between retinal microvascular changes and the risk of developing obesity...
  3. ncbi Relationship between Urinary Bisphenol A Levels and Diabetes Mellitus
    Anoop Shankar
    Department of Community Medicine, West Virginia University School of Medicine, P O Box 9190, Morgantown, West Virginia 26506 9190
    J Clin Endocrinol Metab 96:3822-6. 2011
    ..Conclusions: Urinary BPA levels are found to be associated with diabetes mellitus independent of traditional diabetes risk factors. Future prospective studies are needed to confirm or disprove this finding...
  4. ncbi Sleep duration and self-rated health: the national health interview survey 2008
    Anoop Shankar
    Department of Community Medicine, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, WV 26505 9190, USA
    Sleep 34:1173-7. 2011
    ..However, relatively few studies have examined the association between sleep duration and SRH, and the results have not been consistent...
  5. ncbi Perfluoroalkyl chemicals and chronic kidney disease in US adults
    Anoop Shankar
    Department of Community Medicine, School of Medicine, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506, USA
    Am J Epidemiol 174:893-900. 2011
    ..04, 2.88; P for trend = 0.015) for perfluorooctanoic acid and 1.82 (95% confidence interval: 1.01, 3.27; P for trend = 0.019) for perfluorooctane sulfonate. The present results suggest that elevated PFC levels are associated with CKD...
  6. ncbi Markers of inflammation predict the long-term risk of developing chronic kidney disease: a population-based cohort study
    Anoop Shankar
    Department of Community Medicine, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA
    Kidney Int 80:1231-8. 2011
    ..09), were positively associated with incident CKD. Thus, elevations of most markers of inflammation predict the risk of developing CKD. Each marker should be independently verified...
  7. ncbi Relationship between serum cystatin C and hypertension among US adults without clinically recognized chronic kidney disease
    Anoop Shankar
    Department of Community Medicine, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, WV, USA
    J Am Soc Hypertens 5:378-84. 2011
    ..51 in men. In a representative sample of US adults, mild reductions in kidney function as measured by higher serum cystatin C levels among subjects without clinically recognized CKD are associated with hypertension in women, but not men...
  8. ncbi Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin d levels and prediabetes among subjects free of diabetes
    Anoop Shankar
    Department of Community Medicine, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA
    Diabetes Care 34:1114-9. 2011
    ..However, previous studies have not examined the association between low serum 25(OH)D levels and prediabetes...
  9. ncbi Insufficient rest or sleep and its relation to cardiovascular disease, diabetes and obesity in a national, multiethnic sample
    Anoop Shankar
    Department of Community Medicine, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America
    PLoS ONE 5:e14189. 2010
    ..We examined the association between self-reported insufficient rest/sleep and CVD, diabetes, and obesity in a contemporary sample of US adults...
  10. ncbi Sleep duration and coronary heart disease mortality among Chinese adults in Singapore: a population-based cohort study
    Anoop Shankar
    Department of Community Medicine, West Virginia University School of Medicine, 1 Medical Center Drive, PO Box 9190, Morgantown, WV 26506 9190, USA
    Am J Epidemiol 168:1367-73. 2008
    ..These results suggest that sleep duration may be an important marker for CVD...
  11. ncbi Estimating glomerular filtration rate in a population-based study
    Anoop Shankar
    Department of Community Medicine, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, WV 26506, USA
    Vasc Health Risk Manag 6:619-27. 2010
    ..Few studies have made side-by-side comparisons of the effect of various estimating equations on the prevalence estimates of CKD in a general population sample...
  12. ncbi Positive relationship between plasma leptin level and hypertension
    Anoop Shankar
    Department of Medicine, West Virginia University School of Medicine, PO Box 9190, Morgantown, WV 26506 9190, USA
    Hypertension 56:623-8. 2010
    ..In conclusion, higher plasma leptin levels are associated with hypertension both among women as well as men in a representative sample of US adults...
  13. ncbi Association between self-rated health and incident severe hypertension among men: a population-based cohort study
    A Shankar
    Department of Community, Occupational, and Family Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
    Singapore Med J 49:860-7. 2008
    ..However, the intermediate biological mechanisms behind this association are not clear. We examined the longitudinal relationship between SRH and incident severe hypertension...
  14. ncbi Relationship between body mass index and high cystatin levels among US adults
    Anoop Shankar
    Department of Community Medicine, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, WV 26506 9190, USA
    J Clin Hypertens (Greenwich) 13:925-30. 2011
    ..Among US adults without clinically recognized CKD, higher BMI levels were independently associated with high cystatin C levels...
  15. ncbi Serum C-reactive protein level and prediabetes in two Asian populations
    C Sabanayagam
    Department of Community Medicine, West Virginia University School of Medicine, PO Box 9190, Morgantown, WV 26506 9190, USA
    Diabetologia 54:767-75. 2011
    ..C-reactive protein (CRP), a marker of inflammation, is associated with diabetes and CVD. However, studies examining the association between CRP and prediabetes among participants without diabetes are limited...
  16. ncbi Positive association between high-sensitivity C-reactive protein level and diabetes mellitus among US non-Hispanic black adults
    A Shankar
    Department of Community, Occupational and Family Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
    Exp Clin Endocrinol Diabetes 116:455-60. 2008
    ..We specifically examined the association between high-sensitivity CRP level and diabetes mellitus in a representative sample of US non-Hispanic blacks...
  17. ncbi Association between glycosylated hemoglobin level and 16-year incidence of chronic kidney disease in type 1 diabetes
    A Shankar
    Division of Epidemiology, Department of Community, Occupational, and Family Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
    Exp Clin Endocrinol Diabetes 115:203-6. 2007
    ..The incidence of recently defined outcome of chronic kidney disease (CKD) has not been widely reported in type 1 diabetes...
  18. ncbi The association between serum uric acid level and long-term incidence of hypertension: Population-based cohort study
    A Shankar
    Department of Community, Occupational, and Family Medicine, Division of Epidemiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
    J Hum Hypertens 20:937-45. 2006
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  19. ncbi Ethnicity-specific prevalences of refractive errors vary in Asian children in neighbouring Malaysia and Singapore
    S M Saw
    Department of Community, Occupational and Family Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
    Br J Ophthalmol 90:1230-5. 2006
    ..To compare the prevalences of refractive errors in Malay, Chinese and Indian children in Malaysia and Singapore...
  20. ncbi Relationship between glycated haemoglobin and microvascular complications: is there a natural cut-off point for the diagnosis of diabetes?
    C Sabanayagam
    Department of Ophthalmology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
    Diabetologia 52:1279-89. 2009
    ..This study was designed to determine whether the relationship of glycated haemoglobin to diabetic microvascular complications shows any natural thresholds that could be useful in diagnosing diabetes...
  21. ncbi Smoking cessation and lung cancer risk in an Asian population: findings from the Singapore Chinese Health Study
    K Y Wong
    Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, MD3, 16 Medical Drive, Singapore 117597, Singapore
    Br J Cancer 103:1093-6. 2010
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