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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1995 - Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA)

Overview

Chirayath M. Suchindran was affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. Their research output primarily focused on the field of Medicine, with a significant number of publications clustered in General Health Professions, Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science, Epidemiology, and Safety Research.

The scientist's work addressed several key topics, including HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions, Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare, HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses, Sex work and related issues, HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk, Health disparities and outcomes, and Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health.

Suchindran collaborated frequently with a group of co-authors, notably including Kathryn M. Rose, Wayne D. Rosamond, Vangie A. Foshee, Susan T. Ennett, and Keturah R. Faurot. These collaborative efforts spanned multiple publications and research projects.

The venues where Suchindran published most frequently included UNC Libraries, BMJ, BMC Pediatrics, Cephalalgia, and Contemporary Clinical Trials. UNC Libraries housed the majority of their publications, with a total of 55 papers.

Recent published papers covered a range of subjects and venues:

  • Dietary alteration of n-3 and n-6 fatty acids for headache reduction in adults with migraine: randomized controlled trial, 2021, BMJ
  • Association of Adolescent Obesity With Risk of Severe Obesity in Adulthood, 2020, UNC Libraries
  • Comparing prospective headache diary and retrospective four-week headache questionnaire over 20 weeks: Secondary data analysis from a randomized controlled trial, 2020, Cephalalgia
  • Home-based intervention for non-Hispanic black families finds no significant difference in infant size or growth: results from the Mothers & Others randomized controlled trial, 2020, BMC Pediatrics
  • Forest Clearing in the Ecuadorian Amazon: A Study of Patterns Over Space and Time, 2020, UNC Libraries

Suchindran's work contributed to a variety of areas within medicine, focusing on both population health and specific public health challenges, often through the use of randomized controlled trials and epidemiological methods.

In recognition of their contributions to the field of statistics and related areas, Suchindran was awarded the title of Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1995.

Best Publications

  • Cardiovascular mortality and noncontraceptive use of estrogen in women: Results from the lipid research clinics program follow-up study

    Trudy L. Bush;Elizabeth Barrett-Connor;Linda D. Cowan;Michael H. Criqui

  • Ten-Year Mortality from Cardiovascular Disease in Relation to Cholesterol Level among Men with and without Preexisting Cardiovascular Disease

    Juha Pekkanen;Shai Linn;Gerardo Heiss;Chirayath M. Suchindran

  • Use of dietary linoleic acid for secondary prevention of coronary heart disease and death: evaluation of recovered data from the Sydney Diet Heart Study and updated meta-analysis.

    Christopher E Ramsden;Christopher E Ramsden;Daisy Zamora;Boonseng Leelarthaepin;Sharon F Majchrzak-Hong

  • Assessing the Long-Term Effects of the Safe Dates Program and a Booster in Preventing and Reducing Adolescent Dating Violence Victimization and Perpetration

    Vangie A. Foshee;Karl E. Bauman;Susan T. Ennett;G. Fletcher Linder

  • The Public Health Impact of Alzheimer's Disease, 2000–2050: Potential Implication of Treatment Advances

    Philip D. Sloane;Sheryl Zimmerman;Chirayath Suchindran;Peter Reed

  • Plasma Triglyceride Level and Mortality from Coronary Heart Disease

    Michael H. Criqui;Gerardo Heiss;Richard Cohn;Linda D. Cowan

  • Epidermolysis bullosa and the risk of life-threatening cancers: the National EB Registry experience, 1986-2006.

    Jo David Fine;Lorraine B. Johnson;Madeline Weiner;Kuo Ping Li

  • Assessing the effects of the dating violence prevention program "safe dates" using random coefficient regression modeling.

    Vangie A Foshee;Karl E. Bauman;Susan T Ennett;Chirayath M Suchindran

  • Re-evaluation of the traditional diet-heart hypothesis: analysis of recovered data from Minnesota Coronary Experiment (1968-73)

    Christopher E Ramsden;Christopher E Ramsden;Daisy Zamora;Sharon Majchrzak-Hong;Keturah R Faurot

  • Longitudinal predictors of serious physical and sexual dating violence victimization during adolescence.

    Vangie Ann Foshee;Thad Steven Benefield;Susan T. Ennett;Karl E. Bauman

  • Association of adolescent obesity with risk of severe obesity in adulthood

    Chirayath Suchindran;Kari E. North;Barry M. Popkin

  • Smart teens don't have sex (or kiss much either).

    Carolyn Tucker Halpern;Kara Joyner;J.Richard Udry;Chirayath Suchindran

  • Life table techniques and their applications

    N. Krishnan Namboodiri;C. M. Suchindran

  • Maternal autonomy is inversely related to child stunting in Andhra Pradesh, India.

    Monal Shroff;Paula Griffiths;Linda S. Adair;Chirayath Suchindran

  • The effect of a conditional cash transfer on HIV incidence in young women in rural South Africa (HPTN 068): a phase 3, randomised controlled trial

    Audrey Pettifor;Catherine MacPhail;Catherine MacPhail;James P Hughes;James P Hughes;Amanda Selin

  • Does maternal autonomy influence feeding practices and infant growth in rural India

    Monal R. Shroff;Paula L. Griffiths;Chirayath Suchindran;Balakrishna Nagalla

  • Risk and protective factors distinguishing profiles of adolescent peer and dating violence perpetration

    Vangie A. Foshee;Heath Luz McNaughton Reyes;Susan T. Ennett;Chirayath Suchindran

  • The Development of Four Types of Adolescent Dating Abuse and Selected Demographic Correlates

    Vangie A Foshee;Thad Benefield;Chirayath M Suchindran;Susan T Ennett

  • The Development of Aggression During Adolescence: Sex Differences in Trajectories of Physical and Social Aggression Among Youth in Rural Areas

    Katherine J. Karriker-Jaffe;Vangie A. Foshee;Susan T. Ennett;Chirayath Suchindran

  • Targeted alteration of dietary n-3 and n-6 fatty acids for the treatment of chronic headaches: a randomized trial.

    Christopher E. Ramsden;Christopher E. Ramsden;Keturah R. Faurot;Daisy Zamora;Chirayath M. Suchindran

  • Testosterone and pubertal development as predictors of sexual activity: a panel analysis of adolescent males.

    C T Halpern;J R Udry;B Campbell;C Suchindran

Frequent Co-Authors

Carolyn Tucker Halpern
Carolyn Tucker Halpern University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Vangie A. Foshee
Vangie A. Foshee University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Susan T. Ennett
Susan T. Ennett University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Karl E. Bauman
Karl E. Bauman University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Audrey Pettifor
Audrey Pettifor University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Catherine MacPhail
Catherine MacPhail University of Wollongong
Linda S. Adair
Linda S. Adair University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Kathleen Mullan Harris
Kathleen Mullan Harris University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Kathleen Kahn
Kathleen Kahn University of the Witwatersrand

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