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Karen Yeates

Researcher at Queen's University

Publications -  142
Citations -  8302

Karen Yeates is an academic researcher from Queen's University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 37, co-authored 122 publications receiving 5145 citations.

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Modifiable risk factors, cardiovascular disease, and mortality in 155 722 individuals from 21 high-income, middle-income, and low-income countries (PURE): a prospective cohort study

TL;DR: The prevalence, hazard ratios, and population-attributable fractions (PAFs) for cardiovascular disease and mortality associated with a cluster of behavioural factors, metabolic factors, socioeconomic and psychosocial factors, and household and ambient pollution are described.
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Variations in common diseases, hospital admissions, and deaths in middle-aged adults in 21 countries from five continents (PURE): a prospective cohort study.

TL;DR: This analysis assesses the incidence of events in 162 534 participants who were enrolled in the first two phases of the PURE core study, finding a pattern of the highest mortality in LICs and the lowest in HICs was observed for all causes of death except cancer, where mortality was similar across country income levels.
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Socioeconomic status and risk of cardiovascular disease in 20 low-income, middle-income, and high-income countries: the Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiologic (PURE) study

TL;DR: Major cardiovascular events were more common among those with low levels of education in all types of country studied, but much more so in low-income countries, and differences in outcomes between educational groups were not explained by differences in risk factors.
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Association of dairy intake with cardiovascular disease and mortality in 21 countries from five continents (PURE): a prospective cohort study.

TL;DR: Dairy consumption was associated with lower risk of mortality and major cardiovascular disease events in a diverse multinational cohort study of individuals aged 35-70 years.