User profiles for Simon G Anderson

Simon George ANDERSON

The University of the West Indies
Verified email at manchester.ac.uk
Cited by 17759

Blood pressure lowering for prevention of cardiovascular disease and death: a systematic review and meta-analysis

D Ettehad, CA Emdin, A Kiran, SG Anderson… - The Lancet, 2016 - thelancet.com
Background The benefits of blood pressure lowering treatment for prevention of cardiovascular
disease are well established. However, the extent to which these effects differ by …

Aortic pulse-wave velocity and its relationship to mortality in diabetes and glucose intolerance: an integrated index of vascular function?

…, L Riste, SG Anderson, JS Wright, G Dunn… - Circulation, 2002 - Am Heart Assoc
Background— Arterial distensibility measures, generally from pulse-wave velocity (PWV),
are widely used with little knowledge of relationships to patient outcome. We tested whether …

Aortic pulse wave velocity improves cardiovascular event prediction: an individual participant meta-analysis of prospective observational data from 17,635 subjects

…, M Spears, C Boustred, M May, SG Anderson… - Journal of the American …, 2014 - jacc.org
Objectives : The goal of this study was to determine whether aortic pulse wave velocity (aPWV)
improves prediction of cardiovascular disease (CVD) events beyond conventional risk …

[HTML][HTML] Genome-wide association study identifies genetic loci for self-reported habitual sleep duration supported by accelerometer-derived estimates

…, JA Rhodes, Y Song, K Patel, SG Anderson… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Sleep is an essential state of decreased activity and alertness but molecular factors regulating
sleep duration remain unknown. Through genome-wide association analysis in 446,118 …

Genome-wide association analyses of sleep disturbance traits identify new loci and highlight shared genetics with neuropsychiatric and metabolic traits

JM Lane, J Liang, I Vlasac, SG Anderson… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Chronic sleep disturbances, associated with cardiometabolic diseases, psychiatric disorders
and all-cause mortality 1 , 2 , affect 25–30% of adults worldwide 3 . Although environmental …

[HTML][HTML] Genome-wide association analysis identifies novel loci for chronotype in 100,420 individuals from the UK Biobank

JM Lane, I Vlasac, SG Anderson, SD Kyle… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Our sleep timing preference, or chronotype, is a manifestation of our internal biological clock.
Variation in chronotype has been linked to sleep disorders, cognitive and physical …

Biological and clinical insights from genetics of insomnia symptoms

…, H Wang, J Bowden, Y Song, K Patel, SG Anderson… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Insomnia is a common disorder linked with adverse long-term medical and psychiatric
outcomes. The underlying pathophysiological processes and causal relationships of insomnia …

Bariatric surgery and its impact on cardiovascular disease and mortality: a systematic review and meta-analysis

CS Kwok, A Pradhan, MA Khan, SG Anderson… - International journal of …, 2014 - Elsevier
Background Bariatric surgery has been shown to improve cardiovascular risk factors but
long term benefits for survival and cardiovascular events are still uncertain. Methods We …

Night shift work, genetic risk, and type 2 diabetes in the UK biobank

C Vetter, HS Dashti, JM Lane, SG Anderson… - Diabetes …, 2018 - Am Diabetes Assoc
OBJECTIVE To examine the effects of past and current night shift work and genetic type 2
diabetes vulnerability on type 2 diabetes odds. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS In the …

Long-term durability of transcatheter aortic valve prostheses

…, S Saraf, PA MacCarthy, A Myat, SG Anderson… - Journal of the American …, 2019 - jacc.org
Background : Very little is known about long-term valve durability after transcatheter aortic
valve replacement (TAVR). Objectives : This study sought to evaluate the incidence of …