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Kiang Liu is affiliated with Northwestern University in the United States. Their research primarily centers on the field of Medicine, with a significant focus on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine as well as related subfields such as Surgery, Nutrition and Dietetics, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging.

Within these domains, Kiang Liu has addressed several key topics, including:

  • Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies
  • Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors
  • Cardiovascular Health and Risk Factors
  • Lipoproteins and Cardiovascular Health
  • Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins
  • Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics
  • Sodium Intake and Health

Their recent papers demonstrate ongoing contributions to cardiovascular research. Notable publications include:

  • "Time Course of LDL Cholesterol Exposure and Cardiovascular Disease Event Risk" (2020), published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  • "Epigenetic Age Acceleration Reflects Long-Term Cardiovascular Health" (2021), published in Circulation Research
  • "Assessment of Coronary Artery Calcium Scoring to Guide Statin Therapy Allocation According to Risk-Enhancing Factors" (2021), published in JAMA Cardiology
  • "Age and sex disparities in hypertension control: The multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis (MESA)" (2021), published in American Journal of Preventive Cardiology
  • "An Electrocardiographic System With Anthropometrics via Machine Learning to Screen Left Ventricular Hypertrophy among Young Adults" (2020), published in IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine

Kiang Liu frequently collaborates with several researchers, including Donald M. Lloyd-Jones, João A.C. Lima, Erin D. Michos, Ka He, and Norrina B. Allen.

Their work has appeared in various publication venues with multiple articles published in UNC Libraries, Circulation, Journal of the American Heart Association, American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and The American Journal of Cardiology.

Best Publications

  • Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis: Objectives and Design

    Diane E. Bild;David A. Bluemke;Gregory L. Burke;Robert Detrano

  • Coronary calcium as a predictor of coronary events in four racial or ethnic groups.

    Robert Detrano;Alan D. Guerci;J. Jeffrey Carr;Diane E. Bild

  • Cardia: study design, recruitment, and some characteristics of the examined subjects

    Gary D. Friedman;Gary R. Cutter;Richard P. Donahue;Glenn H. Hughes

  • Self-reported and measured sleep duration: how similar are they?

    Diane S. Lauderdale;Kristen L. Knutson;Lijing L. Yan;Lijing L. Yan;Kiang Liu

  • Decline in physical activity in black girls and white girls during adolescence.

    Sue Y.S. Kimm;Nancy W. Glynn;Andrea M. Kriska;Bruce A. Barton

  • Electron-beam tomography coronary artery calcium and cardiac events: a 37-month follow-up of 5635 initially asymptomatic low- to intermediate-risk adults.

    George T. Kondos;Julie Anne Hoff;Alexander Sevrukov;Martha L. Daviglus

  • Low risk-factor profile and long-term cardiovascular and noncardiovascular mortality and life expectancy: findings for 5 large cohorts of young adult and middle-aged men and women.

    Jeremiah Stamler;Rose Stamler;James D. Neaton;Deborah Wentworth

  • Accumulated evidence on fish consumption and coronary heart disease mortality: a meta-analysis of cohort studies.

    Ka He;Yiqing Song;Martha L. Daviglus;Kiang Liu

  • Genome-wide association analyses identify 18 new loci associated with serum urate concentrations

    Anna Köttgen;Anna Köttgen;Eva Albrecht;Alexander Teumer;Veronique Vitart

  • Leg symptoms in peripheral arterial disease: associated clinical characteristics and functional impairment.

    Mary Mc Grae McDermott;Philip Greenland;Kiang Liu;Jack M. Guralnik

  • Cardiorespiratory fitness in young adulthood and the development of cardiovascular disease risk factors.

    Mercedes R. Carnethon;Samuel S. Gidding;Rodrigo Nehgme;Stephen Sidney

  • Ethnic differences in coronary calcification: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA).

    Diane E. Bild;Robert Detrano;Do Peterson;Alan Guerci

  • Coronary Artery Calcification Compared With Carotid Intima-Media Thickness in the Prediction of Cardiovascular Disease Incidence : The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA)

    Aaron R. Folsom;Richard A. Kronmal;Robert C. Detrano;Daniel H. O’Leary

  • The relationship of left ventricular mass and geometry to incident cardiovascular events: the MESA (Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis) study.

    David A. Bluemke;Richard A. Kronmal;João A.C. Lima;Kiang Liu

  • Statistical methods to assess and minimize the role of intra-individual variability in obscuring the relationship between dietary lipids and serum cholesterol.

    Kiang Liu;Jeremiah Stamler;Alan Dyer;Jeffrey McKeever

  • Functional decline in peripheral arterial disease: associations with the ankle brachial index and leg symptoms.

    Mary Mc Grae McDermott;Kiang Liu;Philip Greenland;Jack M. Guralnik

  • Differences in the Incidence of Congestive Heart Failure by Ethnicity: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis

    Hossein Bahrami;Richard Kronmal;David A. Bluemke;Jean Olson

  • Sample design and cohort selection in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos.

    Lisa M. LaVange;William D. Kalsbeek;Paul D. Sorlie;Larissa M. Avilés-Santa

  • 10-Year Coronary Heart Disease Risk Prediction Using Coronary Artery Calcium and Traditional Risk Factors: Derivation in the MESA (Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis) With Validation in the HNR (Heinz Nixdorf Recall) Study and the DHS (Dallas Heart Study)

    Robyn L. McClelland;Neal W. Jorgensen;Matthew Budoff;Michael J. Blaha

  • Cardiovascular imaging for assessing cardiovascular risk in asymptomatic men versus women the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA)

    Aditya Jain;Robyn L. McClelland;Joseph F. Polak;Steven Shea

Frequent Co-Authors

Donald M. Lloyd-Jones
Donald M. Lloyd-Jones Northwestern University
David R. Jacobs
David R. Jacobs University of Minnesota
Mary M. McDermott
Mary M. McDermott Northwestern University
Philip Greenland
Philip Greenland Northwestern University
Martha L. Daviglus
Martha L. Daviglus University of Illinois at Chicago
Michael H. Criqui
Michael H. Criqui University of California, San Diego
Jack M. Guralnik
Jack M. Guralnik University of Maryland, Baltimore
Jeremiah Stamler
Jeremiah Stamler Northwestern University
Joao A.C. Lima
Joao A.C. Lima Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Luigi Ferrucci
Luigi Ferrucci National Institutes of Health

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