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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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Comparison of hospital and neighborhood controls in a study of coronary artery disease
Grethe S. Tell,J E Ryu,Corleen J. Thompson,Frederic R. Kahl,Timothy E. Craven,Mark A. Espeland,Amy P. Hagaman,Gerardo Heiss,John R. Crouse +8 more
TL;DR: Risk factors in 342 hospital controls free of angiographic evidence for CAD, 168 neighborhood controls without symptoms of CAD, and 450 CAD patients were compared, finding that among women, the hospital control group had significantly lower LDL cholesterol and fewer pack-years of smoking, and a greater prevalence of hypertension than the neighborhood group.
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Reliability of cause of death coding: an international comparison
Carmen Antini,Danuta Rajs,María Teresa Muñoz-Quezada,Boris Andrés Lucero Mondaca,Gerardo Heiss +4 more
TL;DR: In conclusion, causes of death coding and inter-coder agreement for cardiovascular diseases in two regions of Chile are comparable to an external benchmark and with reports from other countries.
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Simplified blood pressure measurement approaches and implications for hypertension screening: the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities study.
Yifei Lu,Olive Tang,Tammy M. Brady,Edgar R. Miller,Gerardo Heiss,Lawrence J. Appel,Kunihiro Matsushita +6 more
TL;DR: In those without diagnosed HTN, a simplified BP measurement approach using the 2nd BP only when the 1st BP is at least 130/80 could reduce the total number of BP measurements by more than 50, identify HTN with limited misclassification (2–8%), and predict CVD risks reasonably well.
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Glutamic acid decarboxylase antibodies are indicators of the course, but not of the onset, of diabetes in middle-aged adults: the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study.
Álvaro Vigo,Bruce Bartholow Duncan,Bruce Bartholow Duncan,Maria Inês Schmidt,Maria Inês Schmidt,David Couper,Gerardo Heiss,James S. Pankow,Christie M. Ballantyne +8 more
TL;DR: In initially non-diabetic middle-aged adults, GADA positivity did not increase diabetes risk, and the overall baseline profile of risk factors was similar for positive and negative individuals.
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Family follow-up study of serum cholesterol in Evans County, Georgia
TL;DR: The observations are consistent with shared behavioral and environmental familial determinants of serum cholesterol selectively transmitted to offspring in different social and occupational strata of Evans County.