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Anushka Patel is affiliated with the University of New South Wales in Australia and specializes primarily in the field of Medicine. Their research focuses extensively on cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, with significant work also conducted in economics and econometrics, obstetrics and gynecology, endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, as well as public health, environmental and occupational health.

Their scholarly output includes studies on several key topics within medicine and public health. These topics are:

  • Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies
  • Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy
  • Gestational Diabetes Research and Management
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • Medication Adherence and Compliance
  • Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
  • Acute Myocardial Infarction Research

Anushka Patel is frequently published in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), BMJ Open, The Lancet, Annals of Surgical Oncology, and The Medical Journal of Australia. Their prolific contributions to these journals highlight an active role in disseminating research findings within both general medical and specialized cardiovascular fields.

Notable recent papers include:

  • Pharmacological blood pressure lowering for primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease across different levels of blood pressure, 2021, The Lancet
  • Age-stratified and blood-pressure-stratified effects of blood-pressure-lowering pharmacotherapy for the prevention of cardiovascular disease and death: an individual participant-level data meta-analysis, 2021, The Lancet
  • COVID-19 and risks to the supply and quality of tests, drugs, and vaccines, 2020, The Lancet Global Health
  • Initial treatment with a single pill containing quadruple combination of quarter doses of blood pressure medicines versus standard dose monotherapy in patients with hypertension (QUARTET): a phase 3, randomised, double-blind, active-controlled trial, 2021, The Lancet
  • Antihypertensive treatment and risk of cancer: an individual participant data meta-analysis, 2021, The Lancet Oncology

The scientist collaborates regularly with a group of coauthors, indicating a strong network in their research community. Frequent collaborators include Anthony Rodgers, Devarsetty Praveen, Ruth Webster, Laurent Billot, and David Peiris. This collaboration suggests a multidisciplinary approach spanning epidemiology, clinical trials, and health policy.

Best Publications

  • Intensive blood glucose control and vascular outcomes in patients with type 2 diabetes.

    Anushka Patel;Stephen MacMahon;John Chalmers

  • Effects of a fixed combination of perindopril and indapamide on macrovascular and microvascular outcomes in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (the ADVANCE trial): a randomised controlled trial

    Anushka Patel

  • Severe Hypoglycemia and Risks of Vascular Events and Death

    Sophia Zoungas;Sophia Zoungas;Anushka Patel;John Chalmers;Bastiaan E. de Galan;Bastiaan E. de Galan

  • Intensive glucose control and macrovascular outcomes in type 2 diabetes

    Fiona Turnbull;C. Abraira;R. J. Anderson;R. J. Anderson;R. P. Byington

  • Effects of fibrates on cardiovascular outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Min Jun;Celine Foote;Jicheng Lv;Jicheng Lv;Bruce Neal

  • World Health Organization cardiovascular disease risk charts: revised models to estimate risk in 21 global regions

    Stephen Kaptoge;Lisa Pennells;Dirk De Bacquer;Marie Therese Cooney

  • Albuminuria and Kidney Function Independently Predict Cardiovascular and Renal Outcomes in Diabetes

    Toshiharu Ninomiya;Vlado Perkovic;Bastiaan E de Galan;Bastiaan E de Galan;Sophia Zoungas

  • Blood Pressure Lowering in Type 2 Diabetes: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

    Connor A. Emdin;Kazem Rahimi;Bruce Neal;Thomas Callender

  • Follow-up of Blood-Pressure Lowering and Glucose Control in Type 2 Diabetes

    Sophia Zoungas;John Chalmers;Bruce Neal;Laurent Billot

  • Blood pressure-lowering treatment based on cardiovascular risk: a meta-analysis of individual patient data

    Johan Sundström;Johan Sundström;Hisatomi Arima;Mark Woodward;Mark Woodward;Rod Jackson

  • Task Shifting for Non-Communicable Disease Management in Low and Middle Income Countries – A Systematic Review

    Rohina Joshi;Mohammed Alim;Andre Pascal Kengne;Stephen Jan

  • Pharmacological blood pressure lowering for primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease across different levels of blood pressure: an individual participant-level data meta-analysis

    Kazem Rahimi;Zeinab Bidel;Milad Nazarzadeh;Emma Copland

  • Impact of age, age at diagnosis and duration of diabetes on the risk of macrovascular and microvascular complications and death in type 2 diabetes

    Sophia Zoungas;Sophia Zoungas;Mark Woodward;Mark Woodward;Qiang Li;Mark Emmanuel Cooper

  • Cholesterol, coronary heart disease, and stroke in the Asia Pacific region.

    X Zhang;A Patel;H Horibe;Z Wu

  • Serum triglycerides as a risk factor for cardiovascular diseases in the Asia-Pacific region.

    A. Patel;F. Barzi;K. Jamrozik;T. H. Lam

  • Risk prediction in patients with heart failure: a systematic review and analysis.

    Kazem Rahimi;Derrick A. Bennett;Nathalie Conrad;Timothy M. Williams

  • Effects of a Fixed-Dose Combination Strategy on Adherence and Risk Factors in Patients With or at High Risk of CVD: The UMPIRE Randomized Clinical Trial

    Simon Thom;Neil Poulter;Jane Field;Anushka Patel

  • Association of HbA1c levels with vascular complications and death in patients with type 2 diabetes: evidence of glycaemic thresholds

    Sophia Zoungas;Sophia Zoungas;J Chalmers;Toshiharu Ninomiya;Qiang Li

  • Clinical characteristics and outcome of patients with early ( 4 h) presentation treated by primary coronary angioplasty or thrombolytic therapy for acute myocardial infarction.

    Felix Zijlstra;A. Patel;M. Jones;C. L. Grines

  • Intensive glucose control improves kidney outcomes in patients with type 2 diabetes

    Vlado Perkovic;Hiddo Lambers Heerspink;John P Chalmers;Mark Woodward;Mark Woodward

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark Woodward
Mark Woodward Imperial College London
John Chalmers
John Chalmers University of New South Wales
Bruce Neal
Bruce Neal George Institute for Global Health
Sophia Zoungas
Sophia Zoungas Monash University
Stephen MacMahon
Stephen MacMahon University of Oxford
Anthony Rodgers
Anthony Rodgers University of New South Wales
Alan Cass
Alan Cass Charles Darwin University
Stephen Jan
Stephen Jan George Institute for Global Health
Vlado Perkovic
Vlado Perkovic George Institute for Global Health
Michel Marre
Michel Marre Université Paris Cité

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