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Scott M. Grundy

Researcher at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Publications -  849
Citations -  246629

Scott M. Grundy is an academic researcher from University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cholesterol & Lipoprotein. The author has an hindex of 187, co-authored 841 publications receiving 231821 citations. Previous affiliations of Scott M. Grundy include University of California, San Francisco & University of California, Davis.

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Meta-analysis and imputation refines the association of 15q25 with smoking quantity

Jason Z. Liu, +107 more
- 01 May 2010 - 
TL;DR: The Oxford-GlaxoSmithKline study (Ox-GSK) as discussed by the authors performed a genome-wide meta-analysis of SNP association with smoking-related behavioral traits and found an effect on smoking quantity at a locus on 15q25 (P = 9.45 x 10(-19) that includes CHRNA5, CHRNA3 and CHRNB4.
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Improving Coronary Heart Disease Risk Assessment in Asymptomatic People Role of Traditional Risk Factors and Noninvasive Cardiovascular Tests

TL;DR: Key findings and recommendations of the AHA Prevention V conference are amplified, new research since the conference is highlighted, and an approach to the use of office-based testing and additional noninvasive procedures in selected patients to better define their coronary event risk is proposed.
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Pre-diabetes, metabolic syndrome, and cardiovascular risk.

TL;DR: Pre-diabetes represents an elevation of plasma glucose above the normal range but below that of clinical diabetes, which can be identified as either impaired fasting glucose (IFG) or impaired glucose tolerance (IGT), which is detected by oral glucose tolerance testing.