Research groups
Colleges
Websites
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Mexico City Prospective Study
Cohort Study
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External Lecturer
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
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Honorary Research Associate
Imperial College London, NHLI
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European Association for the Study of Diabetes
Member
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European Society of Cardiology
Member
Louisa Gnatiuc
BA, DLSHTM, MSc
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.
After graduating with an MSc in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, she completed courses in epidemiology with Harvard and Johns Hopkins, and co-ordinated British, European and Global epidemiological studies with Imperial College London and the Medical Research Council. Her role involved design, conduct and analysis of large multi-centre standardised surveys, cohort studies and biobanks, follow-up through surveillance and vital registries, advisory for the Department of Health and Pharma, and reviewing for scientific journals.
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 and the Prospective Studies Collaboration .As she is particularly interested in producing evidence from countries where the burden of vasculo-metabolic risk is increasing, she continues to collaborate in several multi-national surveys and cohorts, 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.
Outside work, she likes arts, photography and world cuisines.
Key publications
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Diabetes and Cause-Specific Mortality in Mexico City.
Journal article
Alegre-Díaz J. et al, (2016), N Engl J Med, 375, 1961 - 1971
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Diabetes and cause-specific mortality: evidence from 55 000 deaths in 700 000 adults in 44 studies from the Prospective Studies Collaboration
Conference paper
Gnatiuc L. et al, (2015), Diabetologia (2015) 58: 1., 58, S4 - S4
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Adiposity and Blood Pressure in 110 000 Mexican Adults.
Journal article
Gnatiuc L. et al, (2017), Hypertension, 69, 608 - 614
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Prevalence, treatment and control of hypertension in middle-aged Mexican adults
Conference paper
Gnatiuc L. et al, (2016), Eur Heart J (2015) 36 (suppl 1): 1229-1310, 36, 1185 - 1185
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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease mortality and prevalence: the associations with smoking and poverty--a BOLD analysis.
Journal article
Burney P. et al, (2014), Thorax, 69, 465 - 473
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Association of pulse wave velocity with total lung capacity: A cross-sectional analysis of the BOLD London study.
Journal article
Amaral AFS. et al, (2015), Respir Med, 109, 1569 - 1575
Recent publications
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Association of blood pressure with cause-specific mortality in Mexican adults
Journal article
GNATIUC L. et al, (2020), JAMA Network Open
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Body composition and mortality from vascular or metabolic causes among 150,000 participants in the Mexico City Prospective Study
Conference paper
Gnatiuc L. et al, (2019), EUROPEAN HEART JOURNAL, 40, 2412 - 2412
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General and Abdominal Adiposity and Mortality in Mexico City: A Prospective Study of 150 000 Adults.
Journal article
Gnatiuc L. et al, (2019), Ann Intern Med, 171, 397 - 405
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Bronchodilator reversibility in asthma and COPD: Findings from three large population studies.
Journal article
Janson C. et al, (2019), Eur Respir J
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Overdiagnosis of COPD in Subjects With Unobstructed Spirometry
Journal article
Sator L. et al, (2019), Chest