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Overview

Douglas S. Lee is affiliated with the University Health Network in Canada and has contributed extensively to research in the field of medicine, particularly in cardiology and cardiovascular medicine. Their work spans various subfields including pulmonary and respiratory medicine, surgery, epidemiology, and oncology.

Their research topics cover a diverse range of clinical and medical concerns, such as:

  • Cardiac, anesthesia and surgical outcomes
  • Heart failure treatment and management
  • COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
  • Peripheral artery disease management
  • Cerebrovascular and carotid artery diseases
  • Cardiovascular function and risk factors
  • Cardiac imaging and diagnostics

Douglas S. Lee has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Peter C. Austin
  • Husam Abdel-Qadir
  • Dennis T. Ko
  • Charles de Mestral
  • Jiming Fang

They have published their research in leading academic journals. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Vascular Surgery
  • Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  • Canadian Journal of Cardiology
  • Circulation
  • Journal of the American Heart Association

Notable recent papers by Douglas S. Lee encompass a range of topics within clinical research and cardiology:

  • "Missing Data in Clinical Research: A Tutorial on Multiple Imputation," 2020, Canadian Journal of Cardiology
  • "CCS/CHFS Heart Failure Guidelines Update: Defining a New Pharmacologic Standard of Care for Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction," 2021, Canadian Journal of Cardiology
  • "Age dependent associations of risk factors with heart failure: pooled population based cohort study," 2021, BMJ
  • "Machine learning vs. conventional statistical models for predicting heart failure readmission and mortality," 2020, ESC Heart Failure
  • "Association of Influenza Vaccination With Cardiovascular Risk," 2022, JAMA Network Open

Best Publications

  • Outcome of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction in a population-based study.

    R. Sacha Bhatia;Jack V. Tu;Jack V. Tu;Douglas S. Lee;Peter C. Austin

  • Rates of Hyperkalemia after Publication of the Randomized Aldactone Evaluation Study

    David N. Juurlink;Muhammad M. Mamdani;Douglas S. Lee;Alexander Kopp

  • Introduction to the Analysis of Survival Data in the Presence of Competing Risks.

    Peter C. Austin;Douglas S. Lee;Jason P. Fine

  • Predicting mortality among patients hospitalized for heart failure. Derivation and validation of a clinical model

    D.S. Lee;P.C. Austin;J.L. Rouleau;P.P. Liu

  • Relation of Disease Pathogenesis and Risk Factors to Heart Failure With Preserved or Reduced Ejection Fraction: Insights From the Framingham Heart Study of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

    Douglas S. Lee;Philimon Gona;Philimon Gona;Ramachandran S. Vasan;Ramachandran S. Vasan;Martin G. Larson;Martin G. Larson

  • Atrial Fibrillation Begets Heart Failure and Vice Versa: Temporal Associations and Differences in Preserved Versus Reduced Ejection Fraction.

    Rajalakshmi Santhanakrishnan;Na Wang;Martin G. Larson;Jared W. Magnani

  • Gamma glutamyl transferase and metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular disease, and mortality risk: the Framingham Heart Study.

    Douglas S. Lee;Jane C. Evans;Sander J. Robins;Peter W. Wilson

  • Cyclo-oxygenase-2 inhibitors versus non-selective non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and congestive heart failure outcomes in elderly patients: a population-based cohort study.

    Muhammad Mamdani;David N Juurlink;David N Juurlink;Douglas S Lee;Paula A Rochon

  • Missing Data in Clinical Research: A Tutorial on Multiple Imputation

    Peter C. Austin;Peter C. Austin;Peter C. Austin;Ian R. White;Douglas S. Lee;Stef van Buuren;Stef van Buuren

  • Comparison of coding of heart failure and comorbidities in administrative and clinical data for use in outcomes research.

    Douglas S Lee;Linda Donovan;Peter C Austin;Yanyan Gong

  • Association of temporal trends in risk factors and treatment uptake with coronary heart disease mortality, 1994-2005.

    Harindra C. Wijeysundera;Márcio Machado;Farah Farahati;Xuesong Wang

  • Predictors of New-Onset Heart Failure: Differences in Preserved Versus Reduced Ejection Fraction

    Jennifer E. Ho;Asya Lyass;Douglas S. Lee;Ramachandran S. Vasan

  • Using methods from the data-mining and machine-learning literature for disease classification and prediction: a case study examining classification of heart failure subtypes.

    Peter C. Austin;Jack V. Tu;Jennifer E. Ho;Daniel Levy

  • High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol and Cause-Specific Mortality in Individuals Without Previous Cardiovascular Conditions: The CANHEART Study.

    Dennis T. Ko;David A. Alter;Helen Guo;Maria Koh

  • Left Ventricular Remodeling and Ventricular Arrhythmias After Myocardial Infarction

    Martin St John Sutton;Douglas Lee;Jean Lucien Rouleau;Steven Goldman

  • The Association of Obesity and Cardiometabolic Traits With Incident HFpEF and HFrEF.

    Nazir Savji;Wouter C. Meijers;Traci M. Bartz;Vijeta Bhambhani

  • Cardiac Dysfunction and Noncardiac Dysfunction as Precursors of Heart Failure With Reduced and Preserved Ejection Fraction in the Community

    Carolyn S.P. Lam;Asya Lyass;Asya Lyass;Elisabeth Kraigher-Krainer;Joseph M. Massaro

  • Lifetime Analysis of Hospitalizations and Survival of Patients Newly-Admitted with Heart Failure

    Soohun Chun;Jack V. Tu;Harindra C. Wijeysundera;Peter C. Austin

  • A systematic review and meta-analysis of studies comparing readmission rates and mortality rates in patients with heart failure.

    Femida H. Gwadry-Sridhar;Virginia Flintoft;Douglas S. Lee;Hui Lee

  • Predicting Heart Failure With Preserved and Reduced Ejection Fraction The International Collaboration on Heart Failure Subtypes

    Jennifer E. Ho;Jennifer E. Ho;Danielle Enserro;Frank P. Brouwers;Jorge R. Kizer

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter C. Austin
Peter C. Austin University of Toronto
Jack V. Tu
Jack V. Tu University of Toronto
Ramachandran S. Vasan
Ramachandran S. Vasan The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Therese A. Stukel
Therese A. Stukel University of Toronto
Daniel Levy
Daniel Levy National Institutes of Health
Emelia J. Benjamin
Emelia J. Benjamin Boston University
Paul Dorian
Paul Dorian University of Toronto
Jeff S. Healey
Jeff S. Healey Population Health Research Institute
Thomas J. Wang
Thomas J. Wang Vanderbilt University
Andrew D. Krahn
Andrew D. Krahn University of British Columbia

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