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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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Peripheral Artery Disease and Subsequent Risk of Infectious Disease in Older Individuals: The ARIC Study.

TL;DR: Peripheral artery disease (PAD) was independently associated with the risk of overall infection (adjusted hazard ratio [HR], 1.66 [95% CI, 1.42 to 1.20], as was borderline low ABI of 0.7 as mentioned in this paper .
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Confiabilidade de codificação das causas de óbito: uma comparação internacional

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated the agreement of nosologic coding of cardiovascular causes of death between a Chilean coder and one in the United States, in a stratified random sample of death certificates of persons aged ≥ 60, issued in 2008 in the Valparaiso and Metropolitan regions, Chile.
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Life-Course Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status and Cardiovascular Events in Black and White Adults in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors examined neighborhood SES in childhood, and young, middle, and older adulthood in association with the risk for CVD in Black and White men and women in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study (1996-2019).
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Abstract P183: Repeatability of Pulse Wave Velocity: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study

TL;DR: Characterize the repeatability of PWV in a multi-center, population-based study of older adults and excluded participants with evidence of a major a...