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  • 2012 - Distinguished Fellowship Award, American College of Cardiology (ACC)
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
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  • Member of the Association of American Physicians

Overview

C. Noel Bairey Merz is affiliated with Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in the United States. Their research concentrates primarily on cardiovascular medicine, with a substantial focus on cardiology and cardiovascular disease, as well as related interdisciplinary areas such as radiology, nuclear medicine, imaging, surgery, public health, environmental and occupational health, and obstetrics and gynecology.

The scientist's body of work encompasses several major topics including cardiac imaging and diagnostics, acute myocardial infarction research, cardiovascular function and risk factors, cardiovascular disease and adiposity, cardiovascular issues in pregnancy, coronary interventions and diagnostics, and birth, development, and health. These areas collectively represent the core of their research interests.

C. Noel Bairey Merz has published extensively, with frequent contributions to leading journals such as:

  • Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  • Circulation
  • European Heart Journal
  • American Heart Journal Plus Cardiology Research and Practice
  • Journal of the American Heart Association

Among their recent publications are:

  • Sex and gender: modifiers of health, disease, and medicine (2020, The Lancet)
  • The Lancet women and cardiovascular disease Commission: reducing the global burden by 2030 (2021, The Lancet)
  • Sex Differences in Blood Pressure Trajectories Over the Life Course (2020, JAMA Cardiology)
  • Coronary Optical Coherence Tomography and Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging to Determine Underlying Causes of Myocardial Infarction With Nonobstructive Coronary Arteries in Women (2020, Circulation)
  • Sex Differences in Blood Pressure Associations With Cardiovascular Outcomes (2021, Circulation)

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Janet Wei
  • Carl J. Pepine
  • Chrisandra Shufelt
  • Eileen Handberg
  • Galen Cook-Wiens

C. Noel Bairey Merz has been recognized with the Distinguished Fellowship Award from the American College of Cardiology in 2012 and is a member of the Association of American Physicians.

Best Publications

  • Implications of Recent Clinical Trials for the National Cholesterol Education Program Adult Treatment Panel III Guidelines

    Scott M. Grundy;James I. Cleeman;C. Noel Bairey Merz;H. Bryan Brewer

  • 2013 ACC/AHA Guideline on the Treatment of Blood Cholesterol to Reduce Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Risk in Adults A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines

    Neil J Stone;Jennifer G Robinson;Alice H. Lichtenstein;C Noel Bairey Merz

  • Sex and gender: modifiers of health, disease, and medicine.

    Franck Mauvais-Jarvis;Noel Bairey Merz;Peter J. Barnes;Roberta D. Brinton

  • ACC/AHA/NHLBI Clinical Advisory on the Use and Safety of Statins

    Richard C. Pasternak;Sidney C. Smith;C. Noel Bairey-Merz;Scott M. Grundy

  • Insights from the NHLBI-Sponsored Women's Ischemia Syndrome Evaluation (WISE) Study: Part II: gender differences in presentation, diagnosis, and outcome with regard to gender-based pathophysiology of atherosclerosis and macrovascular and microvascular coronary disease.

    C. Noel Bairey Merz;Leslee J. Shaw;Steven E. Reis;Vera Bittner

  • Cardiovascular Disease in Women: Clinical Perspectives

    Mariana Garcia;Sharon Lee Mulvagh;C. Noel Bairey Merz;Julie E. Buring

  • Insights from the NHLBI-Sponsored Women's Ischemia Syndrome Evaluation (WISE) Study: Part I: gender differences in traditional and novel risk factors, symptom evaluation, and gender-optimized diagnostic strategies.

    Leslee J. Shaw;C. Noel Bairey Merz;Carl J. Pepine;Steven E. Reis

  • Coronary microvascular reactivity to adenosine predicts adverse outcome in women evaluated for suspected ischemia results from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute WISE (Women's Ischemia Syndrome Evaluation) study.

    Carl J. Pepine;R. David Anderson;Barry L. Sharaf;Steven E. Reis

  • Women and ischemic heart disease: evolving knowledge.

    Leslee J. Shaw;Raffaelle Bugiardini;C. Noel Bairey Merz

  • The Lancet women and cardiovascular disease Commission: reducing the global burden by 2030.

    Birgit Vogel;Monica Acevedo;Yolande Appelman;C Noel Bairey Merz

  • Angina With “Normal” Coronary Arteries: A Changing Philosophy

    Raffaele Bugiardini;C. Noel Bairey Merz

  • Coronary microvascular dysfunction is highly prevalent in women with chest pain in the absence of coronary artery disease: Results from the NHLBI WISE study

    Steven E. Reis;Richard Holubkov;A.J.Conrad Smith;Sheryl F. Kelsey

  • Ischemia and No Obstructive Coronary Artery Disease (INOCA): Developing Evidence-Based Therapies and Research Agenda for the Next Decade.

    C. Noel Bairey Merz;Carl J. Pepine;Mary Norine Walsh;Jerome L. Fleg

  • International standardization of diagnostic criteria for microvascular angina.

    Peter Ong;Paolo G. Camici;John F. Beltrame;Filippo Crea

  • Serum Amyloid A as a Predictor of Coronary Artery Disease and Cardiovascular Outcome in Women: The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute–Sponsored Women’s Ischemia Syndrome Evaluation (WISE)

    B. Delia Johnson;Kevin E. Kip;Oscar C. Marroquin;Paul M Ridker

  • Impact of Ethnicity and Gender Differences on Angiographic Coronary Artery Disease Prevalence and In-Hospital Mortality in the American College of Cardiology-National Cardiovascular Data Registry

    Leslee J. Shaw;Richard E. Shaw;C. Noel Bairey Merz;Ralph G. Brindis

  • Prognosis in Women With Myocardial Ischemia in the Absence of Obstructive Coronary Disease Results From the National Institutes of Health–National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute–Sponsored Women’s Ischemia Syndrome Evaluation (WISE)

    B. Delia Johnson;Leslee J. Shaw;Steven D. Buchthal;C. Noel Bairey Merz

  • Relationship of physical fitness vs body mass Index with coronary artery disease and cardiovascular events in women

    Timothy R. Wessel;Christopher B. Arant;Marian B. Olson;B. Delia Johnson

  • Adverse cardiovascular outcomes in women with nonobstructive coronary artery disease: a report from the Women's Ischemia Syndrome Evaluation study and the St James Women Take Heart Project.

    Martha Gulati;Rhonda M. Cooper-DeHoff;Candace McClure;B. Delia Johnson

  • ACC/AHA/NHLBI Clinical Advisory on the Use and Safety of Statins

    Richard C. Pasternak;Sidney C. Smith;C. Noel Bairey-Merz

Frequent Co-Authors

Carl J. Pepine
Carl J. Pepine University of Florida
George Sopko
George Sopko National Institutes of Health
Leslee J. Shaw
Leslee J. Shaw Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Sheryl F. Kelsey
Sheryl F. Kelsey University of Pittsburgh
Daniel S. Berman
Daniel S. Berman Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Vera Bittner
Vera Bittner University of Alabama at Birmingham
William J. Rogers
William J. Rogers University of Alabama at Birmingham
Thomas Rutledge
Thomas Rutledge University of California, San Diego
David S. Krantz
David S. Krantz Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Sarah L. Berga
Sarah L. Berga University at Buffalo, State University of New York

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