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| Hugh Tunstall-PedoeSummaryAffiliation: University of Dundee Country: UK Publications
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Adding social deprivation and family history to cardiovascular risk assessment: the ASSIGN score from the Scottish Heart Health Extended Cohort (SHHEC)Mark Woodward
Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Cardiovascular Research, University of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, Scotland, UK
Heart 93:172-6. 2007..To improve equity in cardiovascular disease prevention by developing a cardiovascular risk score including social deprivation and family history...- Comparison of the prediction by 27 different factors of coronary heart disease and death in men and women of the Scottish Heart Health Study: cohort studyH Tunstall-Pedoe
Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Ninewells Hospital, and Medical School, Dundee
BMJ 315:722-9. 1997..To compare prediction by 27 different factors in men and women of coronary heart disease events, coronary deaths, and deaths from all causes... 
Contribution of trends in survival and coronary-event rates to changes in coronary heart disease mortality: 10-year results from 37 WHO MONICA project populations. Monitoring trends and determinants in cardiovascular diseaseH Tunstall-Pedoe
Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit MONICA Quality Control Centre for Event Registration, University of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, UK
Lancet 353:1547-57. 1999..We aimed to validate trends in mortality, partitioning responsibility between changing coronary-event rates and changing survival...- Does dietary potassium lower blood pressure and protect against coronary heart disease and death? Findings from the Scottish Heart Health Study?H Tunstall-Pedoe
Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, The University of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Scotland
Semin Nephrol 19:500-2. 1999..These results are unifactorial, without correction other than for age and sex. Our findings need corroboration from elsewhere and more detailed analysis with more events from longer follow-up... - Estimation of contribution of changes in coronary care to improving survival, event rates, and coronary heart disease mortality across the WHO MONICA Project populationsH Tunstall-Pedoe
Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, MONICA Quality Control Centre for Event Registration, University of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee, UK
Lancet 355:688-700. 2000..The revolution in coronary care in the mid-1980s to mid-1990s corresponded with monitoring of coronary heart disease (CHD) in 31 populations of the WHO MONICA Project. We studied the impact of this revolution on coronary endpoints... - By neglecting deprivation, cardiovascular risk scoring will exacerbate social gradients in diseaseH Tunstall-Pedoe
Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Cardiovascular Research, University of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, UK
Heart 92:307-10. 2006..To examine whether the efficiency and equity of cardiovascular risk scores that identify patients at high risk for preventive interventions are compromised by omitting social deprivation, which contributes to risk... - Pattern of declining blood pressure across replicate population surveys of the WHO MONICA project, mid-1980s to mid-1990s, and the role of medicationHugh Tunstall-Pedoe
Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Cardiovascular Research, University of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital, Dundee DD1 9SY
BMJ 332:629-35. 2006..We tested whether pooled results would show mean change associated with decline in high readings only, resulting from better antihypertensive medication, or with similar falls in low, middle, and high readings, implying other causes... - Secular and socio-economic trends in compliance with dietary targets in the north Glasgow MONICA population surveys 1986-1995: did social gradients widen?Wendy Louise Wrieden
Centre for Public Health Nurition Research, The Institute for Cardiovascular Research, University of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, UK
Public Health Nutr 7:835-42. 2004..To compare trends in the consumption of key foods over 10 years in the most deprived and least deprived quarters in north Glasgow, Scotland as defined by the Carstairs deprivation index for their postcode of domicile... - Contribution of contemporaneous risk factors to social inequality in coronary heart disease and all causes mortalityMark Woodward
Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, University of Dundee, Scotland
Prev Med 36:561-8. 2003.... - Socioeconomic deprivation and waist circumference in men and women: The Scottish MONICA surveys 1989--1995Ruoling Chen
University of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, DDI 9SY Dundee, UK
Eur J Epidemiol 20:141-7. 2005..99-1.50) and 1.81 (1.47-2.23). The study suggests that large waist circumference, increasingly prevalent, is directly related to socioeconomic deprivation, and greater attention should be paid to increasing girth in the socially deprived... 
The metabolic syndrome is not a sensible tool for predicting the risk of coronary heart diseaseMark Woodward
Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, University of Dundee, Scotland
Eur J Cardiovasc Prev Rehabil 16:210-4. 2009..The metabolic syndrome (MS) is a popularly used risk marker for coronary heart disease (CHD), yet its utility is in doubt...- Do inflammatory biomarkers add to the discrimination of cardiovascular disease after allowing for social deprivation? Results from a 10-year cohort study in Glasgow, ScotlandMark Woodward
Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK
Eur Heart J 31:2669-75. 2010..To assess the additional discriminative value of adding each of five inflammatory biomarkers to the ASSIGN risk score, which includes social deprivation... - The prognostic value of adipose tissue fatty acids for incident cardiovascular disease: results from 3944 subjects in the Scottish Heart Health Extended Cohort StudyMark Woodward
Cardiovascular Epidemiology, Institute of Cardiovascular Research, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK
Eur Heart J 32:1416-23. 2011.... - Total tooth loss and prevalent cardiovascular disease in men and women: possible roles of citrus fruit consumption, vitamin C, and inflammatory and thrombotic variablesGordon Lowe
University Department of Medicine, Royal Infirmary, 10 Alexandra Parade, Glasgow, G31 2ER, UK
J Clin Epidemiol 56:694-700. 2003..We evaluated the association of total tooth loss with prevalent CVD in men and women; as well as with citrus fruit consumption, plasma vitamin C, and inflammatory and thrombotic variables... - Does sticky blood predict a sticky end? Associations of blood viscosity, haematocrit and fibrinogen with mortality in the West of ScotlandMark Woodward
Institute for International Health, University of Sydney, Australia
Br J Haematol 122:645-50. 2003..However, the significance of this association, and the extent to which viscosity is associated with mortality, remain to be established in larger studies and meta-analyses... - MORGAM (an international pooling of cardiovascular cohorts)Alun Evans
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Mulhouse Building, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast BT12 6BJ, N. Ireland, UK
Int J Epidemiol 34:21-7. 2005 - C-reactive protein: associations with haematological variables, cardiovascular risk factors and prevalent cardiovascular diseaseMark Woodward
Institute for International Health, University of Sydney, Australia
Br J Haematol 122:135-41. 2003.... - Failing to bark and barkingHugh Tunstall-Pedoe
BMJ 326:882. 2003 - Cancer risk, hypertension, and antihypertensive medicationRuoling Chen
Lancet 359:77. 2002 - MONICA's quarter centuryHugh Tunstall-Pedoe
Eur J Cardiovasc Prev Rehabil 10:409-10. 2003