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Alastair Gray is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the field of Medicine, with a substantial focus on Surgery, Economics and Econometrics, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Epidemiology, and General Health Professions.

Their main topics of study include:

  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • Cardiac and Coronary Surgery Techniques
  • Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes
  • Lipoproteins and Cardiovascular Health
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum

Alastair Gray has published extensively in notable scientific venues. Frequent publication outlets for their work include:

  • European Heart Journal
  • Health Technology Assessment
  • Value in Health
  • BMJ Open
  • Veterinary Record

They have collaborated regularly with several co-authors, including:

  • Aldo P. Maggioni (19 collaborations)
  • David P. Taggart (18 collaborations)
  • Stephen Gerry (17 collaborations)
  • Borislava Mihaylova (17 collaborations)
  • Belinda Lees (16 collaborations)

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Alastair Gray include:

  • "Economic burden of cardiovascular diseases in the European Union: a population-based cost study," 2023, European Heart Journal
  • "Is Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment Admission Avoidance Hospital at Home an Alternative to Hospital Admission for Older Persons?," 2021, Annals of Internal Medicine
  • "Progressive exercise compared with best practice advice, with or without corticosteroid injection, for the treatment of patients with rotator cuff disorders (GRASP): a multicentre, pragmatic, 2×2 factorial, randomised controlled trial," 2021, The Lancet
  • "Postoperative Atrial Fibrillation and Long-Term Risk of Stroke After Isolated Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery," 2020, Circulation
  • "Health-related quality of life in people with predementia Alzheimer's disease, mild cognitive impairment or dementia measured with preference-based instruments: a systematic literature review," 2020, Alzheimer's Research & Therapy

Best Publications

  • The effects of lowering LDL cholesterol with statin therapy in people at low risk of vascular disease: Meta-analysis of individual data from 27 randomised trials

    B Mihaylova;J Emberson;L Blackwell

  • The economic burden of back pain in the UK

    Nikolaos Maniadakis;Alastair Gray

  • Economic burden of cancer across the European Union: a population-based cost analysis

    Ramon Luengo-Fernandez;Jose Leal;Alastair Gray;Richard Sullivan

  • European cardiovascular disease statistics

    Steven Allender;Peter Scarborough;Vito Peto;Mike Rayner

  • Economic burden of cardiovascular diseases in the enlarged European Union.

    José Leal;Ramón Luengo-Fernández;Alastair Gray;Sophie Petersen

  • European Cardiovascular Disease Statistics 2012

    Melanie Nichols;Nick Townsend;Ramon Luengo-Fernandez;Jose Leal

  • Radiotherapy plus cisplatin or cetuximab in low-risk human papillomavirus-positive oropharyngeal cancer (De-ESCALaTE HPV): an open-label randomised controlled phase 3 trial.

    H Mehanna;M Robinson;A Hartley;A Kong

  • Noninvasive Ventilation in Acute Cardiogenic Pulmonary Edema

    Alasdair Gray;Steve Goodacre;David E. Newby;Moyra Masson

  • A model to estimate the lifetime health outcomes of patients with Type 2 diabetes: the United Kingdom Prospective Diabetes Study (UKPDS) Outcomes Model (UKPDS no. 68)

    P M Clarke;A M Gray;A Briggs;A J Farmer

  • Applied Methods of Cost-effectiveness Analysis in Healthcare

    A M Gray;P M Clarke;J Wolstenholme;S Wordsworth

  • Estimating Utility Values for Health States of Type 2 Diabetic Patients Using the EQ-5D (UKPDS 62):

    Philip Clarke;Alastair Gray;Rury Holman

  • UKPDS Outcomes Model 2: a new version of a model to simulate lifetime health outcomes of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus using data from the 30 year United Kingdom Prospective Diabetes Study: UKPDS 82

    A J Hayes;J J Leal;A M Gray;R R Holman

  • High-sensitivity cardiac troponin I at presentation in patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome: a cohort study

    Anoop S V Shah;Atul Anand;Yader Sandoval;Kuan Ken Lee

  • Arthroscopic subacromial decompression for subacromial shoulder pain (CSAW): a multicentre, pragmatic, parallel group, placebo-controlled, three-group, randomised surgical trial

    David J Beard;Jonathan L Rees;Jonathan A Cook;Ines Rombach

  • Effect of 3 to 5 years of scheduled CEA and CT follow-up to detect recurrence of colorectal cancer: the FACS randomized clinical trial.

    John N. Primrose;Rafael Perera;Alastair Gray;Peter Rose

  • Handling uncertainty when performing economic evaluation of healthcare interventions.

    A H Briggs;A M Gray

  • High sensitivity cardiac troponin and the under-diagnosis of myocardial infarction in women: prospective cohort study

    Anoop S V Shah;Megan Griffiths;Kuan Ken Lee;David A McAllister

  • Mechanistic biomarkers provide early and sensitive detection of acetaminophen-induced acute liver injury at first presentation to hospital.

    Daniel J. Antoine;James W. Dear;Philip Starkey Lewis;Vivien Platt

  • Cost effectiveness of an intensive blood glucose control policy in patients with type 2 diabetes: economic analysis alongside randomised controlled trial (UKPDS 41). United Kingdom Prospective Diabetes Study Group.

    Alastair Gray;Maria Raikou;Alistair McGuire;Paul Fenn

  • Randomized trial to compare bilateral vs. single internal mammary coronary artery bypass grafting: 1-year results of the Arterial Revascularisation Trial (ART)

    D P Taggart;D G Altman;A M Gray;B Lees

Frequent Co-Authors

Rury R. Holman
Rury R. Holman University of Oxford
Melanie J. Davies
Melanie J. Davies University of Leicester
Philip Clarke
Philip Clarke University of Oxford
David P. Taggart
David P. Taggart University of Oxford
Marcus Flather
Marcus Flather University of East Anglia
Andrew Briggs
Andrew Briggs University of Glasgow
David J Beard
David J Beard University of Oxford
Andrew Judge
Andrew Judge University of Bristol
Ray Fitzpatrick
Ray Fitzpatrick University of Oxford
Apostolos Tsiachristas
Apostolos Tsiachristas University of Oxford

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