Louisa Gnatiuc Friedrichs

BA, DLSHTM, MSc, DPhil

Senior Epidemiologist

With experience in acute medicine, epidemiology and public health in Europe, Africa, Asia and South America, Louisa is passionate about improving health at population level. Trained in epidemiology and population health at the University of Oxford and in public health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, she co-ordinated British, European and Global epidemiological studies with Imperial College London and the Medical Research Council.

The current work focuses on the effects of adiposity and related preventable risk factors for premature mortality, such as diabetes and hypertension in the Mexico City Prospective Study, the Prospective Studies Collaboration and the UK Biobank. As she is particularly interested in producing evidence from countries where the burden of vasculo-metabolic risk is increasing, she collaborates with multi-national research programs, including 40 world-wide sites from the BOLD study. Other interests include novel vasculo-metabolic risk factors and disease models, translation of research findings into public health policy, and teaching.

Expertise includes design, conduct and analysis of large multi-centric surveys, cohort studies, biobanks, and follow-up through surveillance and vital registries. Previous roles involves advisory for the Department of Health, Pharma, and the Lancet Global Health..

Outside work, she likes arts, photography and world cuisines.

Key publications

Diabetes and Cause-Specific Mortality in Mexico City.
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Alegre-Díaz J. et al, (2016), N Engl J Med, 375, 1961 - 1971
General and Abdominal Adiposity and Mortality in Mexico City: A Prospective Study of 150 000 Adults.
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Gnatiuc L. et al, (2019), Ann Intern Med, 171, 397 - 405
Sex-specific relevance of diabetes to occlusive vascular and other mortality: a collaborative meta-analysis of individual data from 980 793 adults from 68 prospective studies.
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Prospective Studies Collaboration and Asia Pacific Cohort Studies Collaboration None., (2018), Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol, 6, 538 - 546
Abdominal and gluteo-femoral markers of adiposity and risk of vascular-metabolic mortality in a prospective study of 150 000 Mexican adults.
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Gnatiuc L. et al, (2021), Eur J Prev Cardiol
Effect of diabetes duration and glycaemic control on 14-year cause-specific mortality in Mexican adults: a blood-based prospective cohort study.
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Herrington WG. et al, (2018), Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol, 6, 455 - 463
Association of Blood Pressure With Cause-Specific Mortality in Mexican Adults.
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Tapia-Conyer R. et al, (2020), JAMA Netw Open, 3
Changes in the Diagnosis and Management of Diabetes in Mexico City Between 1998-2004 and 2015-2019.
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Aguilar-Ramirez D. et al, (2021), Diabetes Care, 44, 944 - 951

Recent publications

Low-intensity daily smoking and cause-specific mortality in Mexico: prospective study of 150 000 adults.
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Thomson B. et al, (2021), Int J Epidemiol, 50, 955 - 964
Association of kidney function with NMR-quantified lipids, lipoproteins, and metabolic measures in Mexican adults.
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Aguilar-Ramirez D. et al, (2021), J Clin Endocrinol Metab
Chronic airflow obstruction and ambient particulate air pollution
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Amaral AFS. et al, (2021), Thorax
Changes in the Diagnosis and Management of Diabetes in Mexico City Between 1998-2004 and 2015-2019.
Journal article

Aguilar-Ramirez D. et al, (2021), Diabetes Care, 44, 944 - 951
Abdominal and gluteo-femoral markers of adiposity and risk of vascular-metabolic mortality in a prospective study of 150 000 Mexican adults.
Journal article

Gnatiuc L. et al, (2021), Eur J Prev Cardiol

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