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Overview

Andrew Tonkin is affiliated with Monash University in Australia and has made substantial contributions in the field of Medicine, with a particular focus on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. Their research spans several subfields, including Surgery, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Economics and Econometrics, and Epidemiology.

Their work mainly addresses topics related to Lipoproteins and Cardiovascular Health, Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies, Health Systems and Economic Evaluations, Diabetes and Cardiovascular Risks, Antiplatelet Therapy, Frailty in Older Adults, and the intersection of Cardiac Health and Mental Health.

Frequent co-authors in their research collaborations include John J. McNeil, Robyn L. Woods, Christopher M. Reid, Mark Nelson, and Rory Wolfe.

Andrew Tonkin's research is often published in the following venues:

  • Heart Lung and Circulation
  • Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  • Circulation
  • Journal of the American Heart Association
  • Hypertension

Some of the recent publications associated with Andrew Tonkin include:

  • Effect of statin therapy on muscle symptoms: an individual participant data meta-analysis of large-scale, randomised, double-blind trials (2022), The Lancet
  • Social isolation, social support and loneliness as predictors of cardiovascular disease incidence and mortality (2021), BMC Geriatrics
  • Aspirin for Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Events in Relation to Lipoprotein(a) Genotypes (2022), Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  • Patterns of Association between Depressive Symptoms and Chronic Medical Morbidities in Older Adults (2020), Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
  • Integrated Guidance for Enhancing the Care of Familial Hypercholesterolaemia in Australia (2020), Heart Lung and Circulation

Best Publications

  • Prevention of cardiovascular events and death with pravastatin in patients with coronary heart disease and a broad range of initial cholesterol levels

    A. Tonkin;P. Alyward;D. Colquhoun;P. Glasziou

  • Rivaroxaban with or without Aspirin in Stable Cardiovascular Disease

    John W. Eikelboom;Stuart J. Connolly;Jackie Bosch;Gilles R. Dagenais

  • Efficacy and safety of LDL-lowering therapy among men and women: Meta-analysis of individual data from 174 000 participants in 27 randomised trials

    J Fulcher;R O'Connell;M Voysey

  • Association of LDL Cholesterol, Non–HDL Cholesterol, and Apolipoprotein B Levels With Risk of Cardiovascular Events Among Patients Treated With Statins: A Meta-analysis

    S. Matthijs Boekholdt;Benoit J. Arsenault;Samia Mora;Terje R. Pedersen

  • Risk of Cardiovascular and All-Cause Mortality in Individuals With Diabetes Mellitus, Impaired Fasting Glucose, and Impaired Glucose Tolerance The Australian Diabetes, Obesity, and Lifestyle Study (AusDiab)

    Elizabeth L M Barr;Paul Z Zimmet;T Welborn;Damien John Jolley

  • Effect of Aspirin on Cardiovascular Events and Bleeding in the Healthy Elderly

    John J. McNeil;Rory Wolfe;Robyn L. Woods;Andrew M. Tonkin

  • "Stress" and coronary heart disease: psychosocial risk factors.

    Stephen J Bunker;David M Colquhoun;Murray D Esler;Ian B Hickie

  • Efficacy and safety of statin therapy in older people: a meta-analysis of individual participant data from 28 randomised controlled trials

    Jane Armitage;Colin Baigent;Elizabeth Barnes;D John Betteridge

  • Effect of aspirin on all-cause mortality in the healthy elderly

    John J. McNeil;Mark R. Nelson;Robyn L. Woods;Jessica E. Lockery

  • Apo B versus cholesterol in estimating cardiovascular risk and in guiding therapy: report of the thirty-person/ten-country panel.

    P J Barter;C M Ballantyne;R Carmena;M Castro Cabezas

  • Effect of Pravastatin on Coronary Disease Events in Subgroups Defined by Coronary Risk Factors The Prospective Pravastatin Pooling Project

    Frank M. Sacks;Andrew M. Tonkin;James Shepherd;Eugene Braunwald

  • Poincaré plot of heart rate variability allows quantitative display of parasympathetic nervous activity in humans

    Peter Walter Kamen;Henry Krum;Andrew Maxwell Tonkin

  • Effect of Pravastatin on Cardiovascular Events in People With Chronic Kidney Disease

    Marcello Tonelli;Chris Isles;Gary C Curhan;Andrew Maxwell Tonkin

  • Atrial fibrillation after coronary artery bypass grafting is associated with sympathetic activation.

    Jonathan M. Kalman;Muhammad Munawar;Laurence G. Howes;William J. Louis

  • Effect of Aspirin on Disability-free Survival in the Healthy Elderly

    John J. McNeil;Robyn L. Woods;Mark R. Nelson;Christopher M. Reid

  • Baseline and on-statin treatment lipoprotein(a) levels for prediction of cardiovascular events: individual patient-data meta-analysis of statin outcome trials

    Peter Willeit;Peter Willeit;Paul M Ridker;Paul J Nestel;John Simes

  • Pravastatin Therapy and the Risk of Stroke

    H. D. White;R. J. Simes;N. E. Anderson;G. J. Hankey

  • Secondary prevention of cardiovascular events with long-term pravastatin in patients with diabetes or impaired fasting glucose: results from the LIPID trial.

    Anthony Keech;David Colquhoun;James D Best;Adrienne Kirby

  • Early and late benefits of high-dose atorvastatin in patients with acute coronary syndromes: results from the PROVE IT-TIMI 22 trial

    Kausik K Ray;Christopher P Cannon;Carol H McCabe;Richard Cairns

  • Safety of Proton Pump Inhibitors Based on a Large, Multi-Year, Randomized Trial of Patients Receiving Rivaroxaban or Aspirin

    Paul Moayyedi;John W. Eikelboom;Jackie Bosch;Stuart J. Connolly

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher M. Reid
Christopher M. Reid Monash University
John Simes
John Simes University of Sydney
John J McNeil
John J McNeil Monash University
Harvey D. White
Harvey D. White Auckland City Hospital
Henry Krum
Henry Krum Monash University
David Colquhoun
David Colquhoun University of Queensland
Paul J. Nestel
Paul J. Nestel Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute
Rory Wolfe
Rory Wolfe Monash University
Anthony C. Keech
Anthony C. Keech University of Sydney
Simon Stewart
Simon Stewart Torrens University Australia

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