Professor Sarah Lewington
Research groups
- Accurately estimating the burden of vascular disease using electronic health records
- Accurately estimating the burden of vascular disease using electronic health records
- Adiposity, body fat distribution and risk of chronic disease in Asian and European populations
- Adiposity, body fat distribution and risk of chronic disease in Asian and European populations
- Adiposity, body fat distribution and risk of cancer in UK Biobank
- Analysing big data from electronic health records to understand the determinants of cardiovascular disease
- Analysing big data from electronic health records to understand the determinants of cardiovascular disease
- Deep phenotyping of vascular events in large-scale epidemiological studies using electronic health records
- Understanding and modelling the geographical variation in relative risks for smoking and other major risk factors for burden of disease analyses
Colleges
Websites
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MRC Population Health Research Unit
Programme Leader
Sarah Lewington
BSc, MSc, DPhil
Professor of Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, Director of Graduate Studies (Taught courses)
- Leader, Global Population Studies Group
- Research Fellow, Green Templeton College
Sarah Lewington is an epidemiologist and statistician. She graduated in Mathematics and Statistics from Leicester University in 1988 and spent 5 years working as a medical statistician in the pharmaceutical industry before returning to university to study for an MSc in Applied Statistics at Southampton University. She came to Oxford University to co-ordinate the Prospective Studies Collaboration in 1995 and gained her DPhil in Epidemiology in 1999.
Sarah's main research interest is in major risk factors for premature adult mortality (particularly tobacco, alcohol, blood pressure and obesity) in low- and middle- income countries. She is the Oxford-based lead for studies conducted in Russia, Cuba and India, and leads a team of epidemiologists, statisticians and statistical programmers that form the CTSU’s Diverse Population Studies Group.
Sarah is also Scientific Director for the MSc in Global Health Science and Epidemiology, with responsibility for the planning, development, delivery and management of all aspects of the MSc degree course.
In 2016, Sarah was elected as a Research Fellow at Green Templeton College.
Recent publications
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Association of childhood smoking and adult mortality: prospective study of 120 000 Cuban adults.
Journal article
Thomson B. et al, (2020), Lancet Glob Health, 8, e850 - e857
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Smoking and risk of Parkinson's disease: 65 year follow-up of the British Doctors study
Journal article
CLARKE R. et al, (2020), Neurology
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Publisher Correction: Systemic inflammation is associated with incident stroke and heart disease in East Asians.
Journal article
Karim MA. et al, (2020), Sci Rep, 10
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Childhood smoking and adult mortality: prospective study of 150 000 Cuban adults
Journal article
LEWINGTON S. et al, (2020), The Lancet Global Health
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Validation of Risk Prediction Models to Detect Asymptomatic Carotid Stenosis.
Journal article
Poorthuis MHF. et al, (2020), J Am Heart Assoc