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2026

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Medicine in South Africa Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Medicine in South Africa Leader Award

Overview

Karen Sliwa is affiliated with the University of Cape Town in South Africa and has a significant body of research in the field of medicine, with a focused expertise in cardiology and cardiovascular medicine. Their work spans various subfields including surgery, epidemiology, infectious diseases, and public health related to environmental and occupational health.

The research topics frequently covered by Karen Sliwa include:

  • Cardiovascular Issues in Pregnancy
  • Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair
  • Heart Failure Treatment and Management
  • Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors
  • Cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies
  • Cardiomyopathy and Myosin Studies
  • Cardiac Arrhythmias and Treatments

Karen Sliwa has co-authored numerous papers with a number of frequent collaborators, including:

  • Charle Viljoen
  • Alexandre Mebazaa
  • Ovidiu Chioncel
  • Julian Hoevelmann
  • Marco Metra

The primary venues for their publications are:

  • European Heart Journal
  • European Journal of Heart Failure
  • Global Heart
  • ESC Heart Failure
  • Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Significant recent papers authored or co-authored by Karen Sliwa include:

  • Safety, tolerability and efficacy of up-titration of guideline-directed medical therapies for acute heart failure (STRONG-HF): a multinational, open-label, randomised, trial, 2022, The Lancet
  • Cardiac Myosin Activation with Omecamtiv Mecarbil in Systolic Heart Failure, 2020, New England Journal of Medicine
  • Acute heart failure, 2020, Nature Reviews Disease Primers
  • Cardiovascular Diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa Compared to High-Income Countries: An Epidemiological Perspective, 2020, Global Heart
  • Health-Related Quality of Life and Mortality in Heart Failure: The Global Congestive Heart Failure Study of 23 000 Patients From 40 Countries, 2021, Circulation

Best Publications

  • Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

    Rafael Lozano;Mohsen Naghavi;Kyle Foreman;Stephen Lim

  • Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 291 diseases and injuries in 21 regions, 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

    Christopher J.L. Murray;Theo Vos;Rafael Lozano;Mohsen Naghavi

  • Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    Gregory A Roth;Gregory A Roth;Degu Abate;Kalkidan Hassen Abate;Solomon M Abay

  • Years lived with disability (YLDs) for 1160 sequelae of 289 diseases and injuries 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

    Theo Vos;Abraham D. Flaxman;Mohsen Naghavi;Rafael Lozano

  • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990-2013: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Mohammad H Forouzanfar;Lily Alexander;H Ross Anderson;Victoria F Bachman

  • Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 301 acute and chronic diseases and injuries in 188 countries, 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Theo Vos;Ryan M. Barber;Brad Bell;Amelia Bertozzi-Villa

  • Global, regional, and national age-sex specific all-cause and cause-specific mortality for 240 causes of death, 1990-2013: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Mohsen Naghavi;Haidong Wang;Rafael Lozano;Adrian Davis

  • Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) for 333 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    Simon I Hay;Amanuel Alemu Abajobir;Kalkidan Hassen Abate;Cristiana Abbafati

  • Association of psychosocial risk factors with risk of acute myocardial infarction in 11 119 cases and 13 648 controls from 52 countries (the INTERHEART study): case-control study

    Annika Rosengren;Steven Hawken;Stephanie Ôunpuu;Karen Sliwa

  • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990-2013

    Mohammad H. Forouzanfar;Lily Alexander;H. Ross Anderson;Victoria F. Bachman

  • Global, regional, and national levels and causes of maternal mortality during 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Nicholas J. Kassebaum;Amelia Bertozzi-Villa;Megan S. Coggeshall;Katya A. Shackelford

  • Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 306 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 188 countries, 1990-2013 : quantifying the epidemiological transition

    Christopher J. L. Murray;Ryan M. Barber;Kyle J. Foreman;Ayse Abbasoglu Ozgoren

  • Common values in assessing health outcomes from disease and injury: disability weights measurement study for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010.

    Joshua A. Salomon;Theo Vos;Daniel R. Hogan;Michael Gagnon

  • Heart failure: preventing disease and death worldwide.

    Piotr P. Ponikowski;Stefan D. Anker;Khalid F. AlHabib;Martin R. Cowie

  • Global, regional, and national levels of maternal mortality, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015

    Nicholas J. Kassebaum;Ryan M. Barber;Zulfiqar A. Bhutta;Zulfiqar A. Bhutta;Lalit Dandona;Lalit Dandona

  • Global, regional, and national incidence and mortality for HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria during 1990???2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Christopher J.L. Murray;Katrina F. Ortblad;Caterina Guinovart;Stephen S. Lim

  • Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality and life expectancy, 1950-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    Daniel Dicker;Grant Nguyen;Degu Abate;Kalkidan Hassen Abate

  • A Cathepsin D-Cleaved 16 kDa Form of Prolactin Mediates Postpartum Cardiomyopathy

    Denise Hilfiker-Kleiner;Karol Kaminski;Edith Podewski;Tomasz Bonda

  • Global, regional, and national levels of neonatal, infant, and under-5 mortality during 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Haidong Wang;Chelsea A. Liddell;Matthew M. Coates;Meghan D. Mooney

  • Common values in assessing health outcomes from disease and injury: Disability weights measurement study for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

    J.A. Salomon;T. Vos;D.R. Hogan;M. Gagnon

Frequent Co-Authors

Simon Stewart
Simon Stewart Torrens University Australia
Bongani M. Mayosi
Bongani M. Mayosi University of Cape Town
Denise Hilfiker-Kleiner
Denise Hilfiker-Kleiner Hannover Medical School
Salim Yusuf
Salim Yusuf McMaster University
Alan D. Lopez
Alan D. Lopez University of Melbourne
Robert G. Weintraub
Robert G. Weintraub Royal Children's Hospital
Maziar Moradi-Lakeh
Maziar Moradi-Lakeh Iran University of Medical Sciences
Stein Emil Vollset
Stein Emil Vollset University of Washington
Ted R. Miller
Ted R. Miller Pacific Institute
Christopher J L Murray
Christopher J L Murray University of Washington

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