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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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Alterations of plasma lipid and lipoprotein levels associated with benzodiazepine use--the LRC Program Prevalence Study.
Donald B. Hunninghake,Robert B. Wallace,Susan Reiland,Elizabeth Barrett-Connor,Patricia W. Wahl,J. Joanne Hoover,Gerardo Heiss +6 more
TL;DR: In a study of white adults from 10 North American Lipid Research Clinics populations, plasma lipid and lipoprotein levels in benzodiazepine users were compared to both the entire population of non- users and matched control non-users.
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Do all components of the metabolic syndrome cluster together in U.S. Hispanics/Latinos? Results from the Hispanic Community Health study/Study of Latinos
Maria M. Llabre,William Arguelles,Neil Schneiderman,Linda C. Gallo,Martha L. Daviglus,Earle C. Chambers,Daniela Sotres-Alvarez,Diana A. Chirinos,Gregory A. Talavera,Sheila F. Castañeda,Scott C. Roesch,Gerardo Heiss +11 more
TL;DR: The results indicate that similar criteria for MetS may be applied across Hispanic/Latino ancestry groups but call into question the role of HDL-C in classifying the MetS in Hispanics/Latinos.
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Comparison of plasma lipids, lipoproteins and dyslipoproteinemia in Israel and the United States. The Lipid Research Clinics Program Prevalence Study.
Shlomo Eisenberg,Gerardo Heiss,Yechiel Friedlander,Basil M. Rifkind,Pesach Segal,O. D. Williams,Yechezkiel Stein +6 more
TL;DR: Using common cutpoints to define dyslipoproteinemia (DLP) observed differences in plasma lipid/lipoprotein distributions determined differences in the frequency of DLP categories between the U.S. and the Jerusalem samples.
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Plasma lipids, lipoproteins, and blood pressure in female adolescents using oral contraceptives
Robert B. Wallace,Israel Tamir,Gerardo Heiss,Basil M. Rifkind,Bobbe L. Christensen,Charles J. Glueck +5 more
TL;DR: Comparative profiles are reported for plasma lipids and lipoproteins, blood pressure, smoking, and selected socioeconomic variables for females less than 20 years of age using oral contraceptives and for pair-matched non-users from the Lipid Research Clinics Prevalence Study.
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Ascertaining Framingham heart failure phenotype from inpatient electronic health record data using natural language processing: a multicentre Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) validation study.
Carlton Moore,Saumya Jain,Stephanie W. Haas,Harish Yadav,Eric A. Whitsel,Wayne Rosamand,Gerardo Heiss,Anna Kucharska-Newton +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the use of NLP on free-text clinical notes and reports from hospitalised patients, determine the performance of natural language processing (NLP) ascertainment of Framingham heart failure (HF) criteria and phenotype.