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Gerardo Heiss was affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. Their research centered primarily in the field of medicine, with a particular focus on cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, surgery, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, and public health, environmental and occupational health.

The scientist's work spanned several interconnected topics, including cardiovascular health and risk factors, peripheral artery disease management, cardiovascular health and disease prevention, health disparities and outcomes, blood pressure and hypertension studies, cerebrovascular and carotid artery diseases, as well as cardiovascular disease and adiposity.

Heiss's recent publications reflect these research interests and include:

  • The ARIC (Atherosclerosis Risk In Communities) Study, 2021, Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  • Variation in Population Attributable Fraction of Dementia Associated With Potentially Modifiable Risk Factors by Race and Ethnicity in the US, 2022, JAMA Network Open
  • Life-Course Individual and Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status and Risk of Dementia in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Neurocognitive Study, 2020, American Journal of Epidemiology
  • Insulin resistance and reduced cardiac autonomic function in older adults: the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities study, 2020, BMC Cardiovascular Disorders
  • Association of insulin resistance, from mid-life to late-life, with aortic stiffness in late-life: the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study, 2020, Cardiovascular Diabetology

His frequent co-authors were:

  • Kunihiro Matsushita
  • Josef Coresh
  • Priya Palta
  • Hirofumi Tanaka
  • Elizabeth Selvin

Heiss published extensively at several venues, with notable frequent publication records at UNC Libraries, Circulation, Atherosclerosis, American Journal of Epidemiology, and Arteriosclerosis Thrombosis and Vascular Biology.

Best Publications

  • Effects of conjugated equine estrogen in postmenopausal women with hysterectomy: the Women's Health Initiative randomized controlled trial

    Garnet L. Anderson;Marian C. Limacher;Annlouise R. Assaf;Tamsen Bassford

  • Association of Coronary Heart Disease Incidence with Carotid Arterial Wall Thickness and Major Risk Factors: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study, 1987–1993

    Lloyd E. Chambless;Gerardo Heiss;Aaron R. Folsom;Wayne D Rosamond

  • Calcium plus vitamin D supplementation and the risk of fractures.

    Rebecca D. Jackson;Andrea Z. LaCroix;Margery Gass;Robert B. Wallace

  • Periodontal Disease and Cardiovascular Disease

    James D Beck;Raul Garcia;Gerardo Heiss;Pantel S. Vokonas

  • Genome-wide association study of blood pressure and hypertension

    Daniel Levy;Georg B. Ehret;Georg B. Ehret;Kenneth Rice;Germaine C. Verwoert

  • Low-fat dietary pattern and risk of cardiovascular disease : The women's health initiative randomized controlled dietary modification trial

    Barbara V. Howard;Barbara V. Howard;Linda Van Horn;Judith Hsia;JoAnn E. Manson

  • The Metabolic Syndrome and 11-Year Risk of Incident Cardiovascular Disease in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study

    Ann Marie McNeill;Wayne D. Rosamond;Cynthia J. Girman;Cynthia J. Girman;Sherita Hill Golden

  • Effect of estrogen plus progestin on stroke in postmenopausal women: the Women's Health Initiative: a randomized trial.

    Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller;Susan Hendrix;Marian Limacher;Gerardo Heiss

  • Markers of inflammation and prediction of diabetes mellitus in adults (Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities study): a cohort study

    Maria Inês Schmidt;Maria Inês Schmidt;Bruce B Duncan;Bruce B Duncan;A Richey Sharrett;Gunnar Lindberg

  • Coronary Heart Disease Prediction From Lipoprotein Cholesterol Levels, Triglycerides, Lipoprotein(a), Apolipoproteins A-I and B, and HDL Density Subfractions The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study

    A.R. Sharrett;C.M. Ballantyne;S.A. Coady;G. Heiss

  • Calcium plus Vitamin D Supplementation and the Risk of Colorectal Cancer

    Jean Wactawski-Wende;Jane Morley Kotchen;Garnet L. Anderson;Annlouise R. Assaf;Annlouise R. Assaf

  • Association of Hormone-Replacement Therapy with Various Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Postmenopausal Women

    Azmi A. Nabulsi;Aaron R. Folsom;Alice White;Wolfgang Patsch

  • Low-grade systemic inflammation and the development of type 2 diabetes: the atherosclerosis risk in communities study.

    Bruce B. Duncan;Bruce B. Duncan;Maria Inês Schmidt;Maria Inês Schmidt;James S. Pankow;Christie M. Ballantyne

  • Arterial Wall Thickness Is Associated With Prevalent Cardiovascular Disease in Middle-Aged Adults The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study

    Gregory L. Burke;Gregory W. Evans;Ward A. Riley;A. Richey Sharrett

  • Carotid Atherosclerosis Measured by B-Mode Ultrasound in Populations: Associations with Cardiovascular Risk Factors in the ARIC Study

    Gerardo Heiss;A. Richey Sharrett;Ralph Barnes;L. E. Chambless

  • 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

  • Trends in the incidence of myocardial infarction and in mortality due to coronary heart disease 1987 to 1994.

    Wayne D. Rosamond;Lloyd E. Chambless;Aaron R. Folsom;Lawton S. Cooper

  • Low-Fat dietary pattern and risk of invasive breast cancer: The women's health initiative randomized controlled dietary modification trial

    Ross L. Prentice;Bette Caan;Rowan T. Chlebowski;Ruth Patterson

  • Carotid artery intimal-medial thickness distribution in general populations as evaluated by B-mode ultrasound. ARIC Investigators.

    G Howard;A R Sharrett;G Heiss;G W Evans

  • Calcium/Vitamin D Supplementation and Cardiovascular Events

    Judith Hsia;Gerardo Heiss;Hong Ren;Matthew Allison

Frequent Co-Authors

Aaron R. Folsom
Aaron R. Folsom University of Minnesota
Eric Boerwinkle
Eric Boerwinkle The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Thomas H. Mosley
Thomas H. Mosley University of Mississippi Medical Center
Lloyd E. Chambless
Lloyd E. Chambless University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Kunihiro Matsushita
Kunihiro Matsushita Johns Hopkins University
Josef Coresh
Josef Coresh New York University
Christie M. Ballantyne
Christie M. Ballantyne Baylor College of Medicine
Elizabeth Selvin
Elizabeth Selvin Johns Hopkins University
Bruce M. Psaty
Bruce M. Psaty University of Washington
Herman A. Tyroler
Herman A. Tyroler University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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