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| Sundar NatarajanSummaryAffiliation: New York University Country: USA Publications
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A simple method of determining confidence intervals for population attributable risk from complex surveysSundar Natarajan
VA New York Harbor Healthcare System, New York, NY 10010, USA
Stat Med 26:3229-39. 2007..Using this method, researchers analysing complex surveys can routinely provide a population perspective and a valid measure of the uncertainty for these estimates...
Effect of treatment and adherence on ethnic differences in blood pressure control among adults with hypertensionSundar Natarajan
Department of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine and the VA New York Harbor Healthcare System, New York City, USA
Ann Epidemiol 19:172-9. 2009..Initiating treatment, while crucial, is not sufficient and future guidelines should emphasize aggressive treatment escalation to achieve hypertension control...- National trends in screening, prevalence, and treatment of cardiovascular risk factorsSundar Natarajan
Ralph H Johnson Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Charleston, SC 29401, USA
Prev Med 36:389-97. 2003..Few studies have documented national trends in screening, awareness, and treatment of cardiovascular risk factors. We evaluated trends in screening, prevalence, and treatment of hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, and smoking... - Cholesterol measures to identify and treat individuals at risk for coronary heart diseaseSundar Natarajan
Department of Medicine, VA New York Harbor Healthcare System Natarajan, New York, New York 10010, USA
Am J Prev Med 25:50-7. 2003..Low-density lipoprotein (LDL)-based guidelines are currently used to initiate and monitor cholesterol-lowering therapy... - Sex differences in risk for coronary heart disease mortality associated with diabetes and established coronary heart diseaseSundar Natarajan
Ralph H Johnson Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Charleston, SC, USA
Arch Intern Med 163:1735-40. 2003..The sex-specific independent effect of diabetes mellitus and established coronary heart disease (CHD) on subsequent CHD mortality is not known... - Sex differences in the effect of diabetes duration on coronary heart disease mortalitySundar Natarajan
Section of Primary Care, Veterans Affairs New York Harbor Healthcare System and New York University School of Medicine, New York
Arch Intern Med 165:430-5. 2005..It is not known whether the coronary heart disease (CHD) mortality risk associated with recent (RDM; <10 years) or long-standing diabetes mellitus (LDM; > or =10 years) varies by sex... - Dietary indiscretion and statin useDevin M Mann
Division of General Internal Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 1470 Madison Avenue, Box 1087, New York, NY 10029, USA
Mayo Clin Proc 82:951-7. 2007..After 6 months of statin use, no significant change in saturated fat intake was noted... 
Iron deficiency in community-dwelling US adults with self-reported heart failure in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey III: prevalence and associations with anemia and inflammationAnkit Parikh
Department of Internal Medicine, New York University Langone Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
Circ Heart Fail 4:599-606. 2011..Iron deficiency has been proposed as a potential therapeutic target in heart failure, but its prevalence and association with anemia and clinical outcomes in community-dwelling adults with heart failure have not been well characterized...- Predictors of adherence to statins for primary preventionDevin M Mann
Division of General Internal Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 1470 Madison Ave, Box 1087, New York, NY 10029, USA
Cardiovasc Drugs Ther 21:311-6. 2007..This prospective study was designed to identify potentially modifiable patient factors including medication, disease, and diet beliefs related to statin adherence... - Association between a DASH-like diet and mortality in adults with hypertension: findings from a population-based follow-up studyAnkit Parikh
Department of Internal Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
Am J Hypertens 22:409-16. 2009..Although the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet lowers blood pressure (BP) in hypertensive adults, its effect on mortality is unclear... - Independent effect and population impact of obesity on fatal coronary heart disease in adultsDevin M Mann
Weil College of Medicine of Cornell University, New York, NY 10021, USA
Prev Med 42:66-72. 2006..The PAR for CHD death in obese non-diabetics is significant. Obesity should be aggressively treated in those without traditional CHD risk factors... - Inverse relationship between lipid-lowering drugs and saturated fat intake in US adultsDevin M Mann
Division of General Internal Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 1470 Madison Ave, Box 1087, New York, NY 10029, USA
Cardiovasc Drugs Ther 21:109-15. 2007..The purpose of this analysis was to evaluate the association between taking lipid-lowering drugs and SF intake... - Hypertension, diabetes, hypercholesterolemia, and their combinations increased health care utilization and decreased health statusSundar Natarajan
Center for Health Care Research, Division of General Internal Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, 135 Cannon Street, Suite 403, P O Box 250837, Charleston, SC 29425 0837, USA
J Clin Epidemiol 57:954-61. 2004..We sought to determine the effect of hypertension, diabetes, hypercholesterolemia, and their combinations on health care utilization and health status through analysis of data from a large national survey... - Challenges and recommendations for blinding in behavioral interventions illustrated using a case study of a behavioral intervention to lower blood pressureJennifer P Friedberg
VA New York Harbor Healthcare System, New York, NY, United States
Patient Educ Couns 78:5-11. 2010.... - Self-report of high cholesterol: determinants of validity in U.S. adultsSundar Natarajan
Ralph H Johnson Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, USA
Am J Prev Med 23:13-21. 2002..We evaluated the validity of self-reported hypercholesterolemia and identified determinants of validity... - Logistic regression with incomplete covariate data in complex survey sampling: application of reweighted estimating equationsCharity G Moore
Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Epidemiology 20:382-90. 2009..Adjusting the sampling weights by the inverse probability of being completely observed appears to be effective in accounting for missing data and reducing the bias of the complete case estimate of the regression coefficients... - Usefulness of a run-in period to reduce drop-outs in a randomized controlled trial of a behavioral interventionMichelle Ulmer
VA New York Harbor Healthcare System, New York, NY, USA
Contemp Clin Trials 29:705-10. 2008..We evaluated the usefulness of a simple run-in period to reduce drop-outs in a behavioral intervention to improve blood pressure (BP). In a pilot study where a run-in period was not used, we had a 25% drop-out rate... - Association of exercise stages of change with glycemic control in individuals with type 2 diabetesSundar Natarajan
Ralph H. Johnson Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Charleston, South Carolina, USA
Am J Health Promot 17:72-5, ii. 2002..A study of 74 patients in a clinic serving indigent primarily African American people found that most were in early stages of readiness to start exercising, and that HbA1c levels were lower in the later stages... - Determinants of sustained uncontrolled blood pressure in a national cohort of persons with diabetesJeffrey D Greenberg
Department of Veterans Affairs-New Jersey Healthcare System, East Orange, New Jersey 07018, USA
Am J Hypertens 19:161-9. 2006..Our findings suggest important patient-level factors that can be targeted for quality improvement programs in diabetes...