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Gerardo Heiss

Researcher at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Publications -  649
Citations -  75660

Gerardo Heiss is an academic researcher from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Risk factor. The author has an hindex of 128, co-authored 623 publications receiving 69393 citations. Previous affiliations of Gerardo Heiss include Bank of America & Brigham and Women's Hospital.

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Calcium plus vitamin D supplementation and the risk of fractures.

Rebecca D. Jackson, +46 more
TL;DR: Among healthy postmenopausal women, calcium with vitamin D supplementation resulted in a small but significant improvement in hip bone density, did not significantly reduce hip fracture, and increased the risk of kidney stones.
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Periodontal Disease and Cardiovascular Disease

TL;DR: It is suggested that periodontal disease, once established, provides a biological burden of endotoxin (lipopolysaccharide) and inflammatory cytokines (especially TxA2, IL-1β, PGE2, and TNF-α) which serve to initiate and exacerbate atherogenesis' and thromboembolic events.
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Genome-wide association study of blood pressure and hypertension

TL;DR: A genome-wide association study of systolic (SBP) and diastolic (DBP) blood pressure and hypertension in the CHARGE Consortium identifies 13 SNPs for SBP, 20 for DBP and 10 for hypertension at P < 4 × 10−7.