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Sonia S. Anand
Researcher at Population Health Research Institute
Publications - 516
Citations - 57254
Sonia S. Anand is an academic researcher from Population Health Research Institute. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Population. The author has an hindex of 93, co-authored 446 publications receiving 50100 citations. Previous affiliations of Sonia S. Anand include Dalhousie University & Hamilton Health Sciences.
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Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases Part I: General Considerations, the Epidemiologic Transition, Risk Factors, and Impact of Urbanization
TL;DR: An overview of the global burden of atherothrombotic cardiovascular disease is provided and overarching factors influencing variations in CVD by ethnicity and region and the influence of urbanization are described.
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Obesity and the risk of myocardial infarction in 27,000 participants from 52 countries: a case-control study.
Salim Yusuf,Steven Hawken,Stephanie Ôunpuu,Leonelo E. Bautista,Maria Grazia Franzosi,Patrick J. Commerford,Chim C. Lang,Zvonko Rumboldt,Churchill L. Onen,Liu Lisheng,Supachai Tanomsup,Paul Wangai,Fahad Razak,Arya M. Sharma,Sonia S. Anand +14 more
TL;DR: Redefinition of obesity based on waist-to-hip ratio instead of BMI increases the estimate of myocardial infarction attributable to obesity in most ethnic groups.
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Plasma HDL cholesterol and risk of myocardial infarction: A mendelian randomisation study
Benjamin F. Voight,Benjamin F. Voight,Benjamin F. Voight,Gina M. Peloso,Gina M. Peloso,Marju Orho-Melander,Ruth Frikke-Schmidt,Maja Barbalić,Majken K. Jensen,George Hindy,Hilma Holm,Eric L. Ding,Toby Johnson,Heribert Schunkert,Nilesh J. Samani,Nilesh J. Samani,Robert Clarke,Jemma C. Hopewell,John F. Thompson,Mingyao Li,Gudmar Thorleifsson,Christopher Newton-Cheh,Kiran Musunuru,Kiran Musunuru,James P. Pirruccello,James P. Pirruccello,Danish Saleheen,Li Chen,Alexandre F.R. Stewart,Arne Schillert,Unnur Thorsteinsdottir,Unnur Thorsteinsdottir,Gudmundur Thorgeirsson,Sonia S. Anand,James C. Engert,Thomas M. Morgan,John A. Spertus,Monika Stoll,Klaus Berger,Nicola Martinelli,Domenico Girelli,Pascal P. McKeown,Christopher Patterson,Stephen E. Epstein,Joseph M. Devaney,Mary Susan Burnett,Vincent Mooser,Samuli Ripatti,Ida Surakka,Markku S. Nieminen,Juha Sinisalo,Marja-Liisa Lokki,Markus Perola,Aki S. Havulinna,Ulf de Faire,Bruna Gigante,Erik Ingelsson,Tanja Zeller,Philipp S. Wild,Paul I.W. de Bakker,Olaf H. Klungel,Anke-Hilse Maitland-van der Zee,Bas J M Peters,Anthonius de Boer,Diederick E. Grobbee,Pieter Willem Kamphuisen,Vera H.M. Deneer,Clara C. Elbers,N. Charlotte Onland-Moret,Marten H. Hofker,Cisca Wijmenga,W. M. Monique Verschuren,Jolanda M. A. Boer,Yvonne T. van der Schouw,Asif Rasheed,Philippe M. Frossard,Serkalem Demissie,Serkalem Demissie,Cristen J. Willer,Ron Do,Jose M. Ordovas,Jose M. Ordovas,Gonçalo R. Abecasis,Michael Boehnke,Karen L. Mohlke,Mark J. Daly,Mark J. Daly,Candace Guiducci,Noël P. Burtt,Aarti Surti,Elena Gonzalez,Shaun Purcell,Shaun Purcell,Stacey Gabriel,Jaume Marrugat,John F. Peden,Jeanette Erdmann,Patrick Diemert,Christina Willenborg,Inke R. König,Marcus Fischer,Christian Hengstenberg,Andreas Ziegler,Ian Buysschaert,Diether Lambrechts,Frans Van de Werf,Keith A.A. Fox,Nour Eddine El Mokhtari,Diana Rubin,Jürgen Schrezenmeir,Stefan Schreiber,Arne Schäfer,John Danesh,Stefan Blankenberg,Robert Roberts,Ruth McPherson,Hugh Watkins,Alistair S. Hall,Kim Overvad,Eric B. Rimm,Eric Boerwinkle,Anne Tybjærg-Hansen,L. Adrienne Cupples,L. Adrienne Cupples,Muredach P. Reilly,Olle Melander,Pier Mannuccio Mannucci,Diego Ardissino,David S. Siscovick,Roberto Elosua,Kari Stefansson,Kari Stefansson,Christopher J. O'Donnell,Christopher J. O'Donnell,Veikko Salomaa,Daniel J. Rader,Leena Peltonen,Leena Peltonen,Stephen M. Schwartz,David Altshuler,Sekar Kathiresan +140 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a Mendelian randomisation analysis was performed to compare the effect of HDL cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, and genetic score on risk of myocardial infarction.
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A comprehensive 1000 Genomes–based genome-wide association meta-analysis of coronary artery disease
Majid Nikpay,Anuj Goel,Won H-H.,Leanne M. Hall,Christina Willenborg,Stavroula Kanoni,Danish Saleheen,Theodosios Kyriakou,Christopher P. Nelson,Christopher P. Nelson,Jemma C. Hopewell,Tom R. Webb,Tom R. Webb,Lingyao Zeng,Abbas Dehghan,Maris Alver,Sebastian M. Armasu,Kirsi Auro,Kirsi Auro,Andrew Bjonnes,Daniel I. Chasman,Shufeng Chen,Ian Ford,Nora Franceschini,Christian Gieger,Christopher Grace,Stefan Gustafsson,Jie Huang,Hwang S-J.,Yun Kyoung Kim,Marcus E. Kleber,King Wai Lau,Xiangfeng Lu,Yingchang Lu,Lyytikäinen L-P.,Evelin Mihailov,Alanna C. Morrison,Natalia Pervjakova,Natalia Pervjakova,Natalia Pervjakova,Liming Qu,Lynda M. Rose,Elias Salfati,Richa Saxena,Markus Scholz,Albert V. Smith,Emmi Tikkanen,André G. Uitterlinden,Xueli Yang,Weihua Zhang,Wei Zhao,M. De Andrade,P. De Vries,N. R. van Zuydam,N. R. van Zuydam,Sonia S. Anand,Lars Bertram,Frank Beutner,George Dedoussis,Philippe M. Frossard,Dominique Gauguier,Alison H. Goodall,Omri Gottesman,Marc Haber,Han B-G.,Shapour Jalilzadeh,Thorsten Kessler,Inke R. König,Lars Lannfelt,Wolfgang Lieb,Lars Lind,Cecilia M. Lindgren,Lokki M-L.,Lokki M-L.,Patrik K. E. Magnusson,Nadeem Hayyat Mallick,Narinder K. Mehra,Thomas Meitinger,Memon F-U-R.,Andrew P. Morris,Andrew P. Morris,Markku S. Nieminen,Nancy L. Pedersen,Annette Peters,Loukianos S. Rallidis,Adil Rasheed,M Samuel,Svati H. Shah,Juha Sinisalo,Kathleen Stirrups,Stella Trompet,Ligui Wang,Ligui Wang,Khan Shah Zaman,Diego Ardissino,Eric Boerwinkle,Ingrid B. Borecki,Erwin P. Bottinger,Julie E. Buring,John C. Chambers,Rory Collins,L. A. Cupples,L. A. Cupples,John Danesh,Ilja Demuth,Roberto Elosua,Stephen E. Epstein,Tõnu Esko,Mary F. Feitosa,Oscar H. Franco,MariaGrazia Franzosi,Christopher B. Granger,Dongfeng Gu,Vilmundur Gudnason,Alistair S. Hall,Anders Hamsten,Tamara B. Harris,Stanley L. Hazen,Christian Hengstenberg,Albert Hofman,Erik Ingelsson,Carlos Iribarren,J W Jukema,Pekka J. Karhunen,Kim B-J.,Jaspal S. Kooner,Iftikhar J. Kullo,Terho Lehtimäki,Loos Rjf.,Olle Melander,Andres Metspalu,Winfried März,Winfried März,Winfried März,Colin N. A. Palmer,Markus Perola,Markus Perola,Markus Perola,Thomas Quertermous,Daniel J. Rader,Paul M. Ridker,Samuli Ripatti,Samuli Ripatti,Robert Roberts,Veikko Salomaa,Dharambir K. Sanghera,Stephen M. Schwartz,Udo Seedorf,Alexandre F.R. Stewart,David J. Stott,Joachim Thiery,Pierre Zalloua,Christopher J. O'Donnell,Christopher J. O'Donnell,Muredach P. Reilly,Themistocles L. Assimes,John R. Thompson,Jeanette Erdmann,Robert Clarke,Hugh Watkins,Sekar Kathiresan,Ruth McPherson,Panos Deloukas,Panos Deloukas,Heribert Schunkert,Nilesh J. Samani,Nilesh J. Samani,Martin Farrall +167 more
TL;DR: This article conducted a meta-analysis of coronary artery disease (CAD) cases and controls, interrogating 6.7 million common (minor allele frequency (MAF) > 0.05) and 2.7 millions low-frequency (0.005 < MAF < 0.5) variants.
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Large-scale association analysis identifies 13 new susceptibility loci for coronary artery disease
Heribert Schunkert,Inke R. König,Sekar Kathiresan,Muredach P. Reilly,Themistocles L. Assimes,Hilma Holm,Michael Preuss,Alexandre F.R. Stewart,Maja Barbalić,Christian Gieger,Devin Absher,Zouhair Aherrahrou,Hooman Allayee,David Altshuler,Sonia S. Anand,Karl Andersen,Jeffrey L. Anderson,Diego Ardissino,Stephen G. Ball,Anthony J. Balmforth,Timothy A. Barnes,Diane M. Becker,Lewis C. Becker,Klaus Berger,Joshua C. Bis,S. Matthijs Boekholdt,Eric Boerwinkle,Peter S. Braund,Morris J. Brown,Mary Susan Burnett,Ian Buysschaert,John F. Carlquist,Li Chen,Sven Cichon,Veryan Codd,Robert W. Davies,George Dedoussis,Abbas Dehghan,Serkalem Demissie,Joseph M. Devaney,Patrick Diemert,Ron Do,Angela Doering,Sandra Eifert,Nour Eddine El Mokhtari,Stephen G. Ellis,Roberto Elosua,James C. Engert,Stephen E. Epstein,Ulf de Faire,Marcus Fischer,Aaron R. Folsom,Jennifer Freyer,Bruna Gigante,Domenico Girelli,Solveig Gretarsdottir,Vilmundur Gudnason,Jeffrey R. Gulcher,Eran Halperin,Naomi Hammond,Stanley L. Hazen,Albert Hofman,Benjamin D. Horne,Thomas Illig,Carlos Iribarren,Gregory T. Jones,J. Wouter Jukema,Michael A. Kaiser,Lee M. Kaplan,John J.P. Kastelein,Kay-Tee Khaw,Joshua W. Knowles,G. Kolovou,Augustine Kong,Reijo Laaksonen,Diether Lambrechts,Karin Leander,Guillaume Lettre,Mingyao Li,Wolfgang Lieb,Christina Loley,Andrew J. Lotery,Pier Mannuccio Mannucci,Seraya Maouche,Nicola Martinelli,Pascal P. McKeown,Christa Meisinger,Thomas Meitinger,Olle Melander,Pier Angelica Merlini,Vincent Mooser,Thomas M. Morgan,Thomas W. Mühleisen,Joseph B. Muhlestein,Thomas Münzel,Kiran Musunuru,Janja Nahrstaedt,Christopher P. Nelson,Markus M. Nöthen,Oliviero Olivieri,Riyaz S. Patel,Christopher Patterson,Annette Peters,Flora Peyvandi,Liming Qu,Arshed A. Quyyumi,Daniel J. Rader,Loukianos S. Rallidis,Catherine M. Rice,Frits R. Rosendaal,Diana Rubin,Veikko Salomaa,M. Lourdes Sampietro,M. S. Sandhu,Eric E. Schadt,Arne Scḧsignfer,Arne Schillert,Stefan Schreiber,Jürgen Schrezenmeir,Stephen M. Schwartz,David S. Siscovick,Mohan U. Sivananthan,Suthesh Sivapalaratnam,Albert V. Smith,Tamara B. Smith,Jaapjan D. Snoep,Nicole Soranzo,John A. Spertus,Klaus Stark,Kathy Stirrups,Monika Stoll,W.H. Wilson Tang,Stephanie Tennstedt,Gudmundur Thorgeirsson,Gudmar Thorleifsson,Maciej Tomaszewski,André G. Uitterlinden,Andre M. van Rij,Benjamin F. Voight,Nicholas J. Wareham,George A. Wells,H.-Erich Wichmann,Philipp S. Wild,Christina Willenborg,Jaqueline C M Witteman,Benjamin J. Wright,Shu Ye,Tanja Zeller,Andreas Ziegler,François Cambien,Alison H. Goodall,L. Adrienne Cupples,Thomas Quertermous,Winfried Mäsignrz,Christian Hengstenberg,Stefan Blankenberg,Willem H. Ouwehand,Alistair S. Hall,Panos Deloukas,John R. Thompson,Kari Stefansson,Robert Roberts,Unnur Thorsteinsdottir,Christopher J. O'Donnell,Ruth McPherson,Jeanette Erdmann,Nilesh J. Samani +166 more
TL;DR: This paper performed a meta-analysis of 14 genome-wide association studies of coronary artery disease (CAD) comprising 22,233 individuals with CAD (cases) and 64,762 controls of European descent followed by genotyping of top association signals in 56,682 additional individuals.