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2023

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Medicine

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137
Citations
92217
World Ranking
1868
National Ranking
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  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Canada Leader Award

Overview

Koon K. Teo is affiliated with McMaster University in Canada, focusing on medical research within the field of medicine with a strong emphasis on cardiology and cardiovascular medicine.

Their work spans multiple subfields including cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, public health, environmental and occupational health, endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, molecular biology, and pediatrics, perinatology and child health.

The main topics addressed in their research cover a range of areas such as nutritional studies and diet, blood pressure and hypertension studies, birth, development, and health, obesity, physical activity, diet, diet and metabolism studies, global public health policies and epidemiology, and hormonal regulation and hypertension.

Frequent publication venues for Koon K. Teo include:

  • Journal of Hypertension
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The Lancet
  • European Heart Journal
  • BMJ Global Health

They have collaborated with several co-authors notably:

  • Salim Yusuf
  • Sonia S. Anand
  • Scott A. Lear
  • Russell J. de Souza
  • Sumathy Rangarajan

Key recent publications authored or co-authored by Koon K. Teo include:

  • Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Prevention: A Perspective From Developing Countries, 2021, Canadian Journal of Cardiology
  • Pharmacological blood pressure lowering for primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease across different levels of blood pressure: an individual participant-level data meta-analysis, 2021, The Lancet
  • Variations between women and men in risk factors, treatments, cardiovascular disease incidence, and death in 27 high-income, middle-income, and low-income countries (PURE): a prospective cohort study, 2020, The Lancet
  • 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
  • Polypill with or without Aspirin in Persons without Cardiovascular Disease, 2020, New England Journal of Medicine

Best Publications

  • Optimal Medical Therapy with or without PCI for Stable Coronary Disease

    William E. Boden;Koon K. Teo;Pamela M. Hartigan;David J. Maron

  • Telmisartan, Ramipril, or Both in Patients at High Risk for Vascular Events

    Koon K. Teo;Janice Pogue;Leanne Dyal;Ingrid Copland

  • Niacin in Patients with Low HDL Cholesterol Levels Receiving Intensive Statin Therapy

    Patrice Desvignes-Nickens;Kent Koprowicz;Ruth McBride;Koon Teo

  • Prevalence, Awareness, Treatment, and Control of Hypertension in Rural and Urban Communities in High-, Middle-, and Low-Income Countries

    Clara K. Chow;Clara K. Chow;Koon K. Teo;Sumathy Rangarajan;Shofiqul Islam

  • Optimal Medical Therapy With or Without Percutaneous Coronary Intervention to Reduce Ischemic Burden Results From the Clinical Outcomes Utilizing Revascularization and Aggressive Drug Evaluation (COURAGE) Trial Nuclear Substudy

    Leslee J. Shaw;Daniel S. Berman;David J. Maron;G. B. John Mancini

  • Renal outcomes with telmisartan, ramipril, or both, in people at high vascular risk (the ONTARGET study): a multicentre, randomised, double-blind, controlled trial

    Johannes F. E. Mann;Roland E Schmieder;Matthew McQueen;Leanne Dyal

  • Modifiable risk factors, cardiovascular disease, and mortality in 155 722 individuals from 21 high-income, middle-income, and low-income countries (PURE): a prospective cohort study

    Salim Yusuf;Philip Joseph;Sumathy Rangarajan;Shofiqul Islam

  • Prognostic value of grip strength: findings from the Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiology (PURE) study

    Darryl P Leong;Darryl P Leong;Koon K Teo;Koon K Teo;Sumathy Rangarajan;Patricio Lopez-Jaramillo

  • Tobacco use and risk of myocardial infarction in 52 countries in the INTERHEART study: a case-control study

    Koon K Teo;Stephanie Ounpuu;Steven Hawken;Pandey

  • Differences in risk factors, atherosclerosis, and cardiovascular disease between ethnic groups in Canada: the Study of Health Assessment and Risk in Ethnic groups (SHARE)

    Sonia S Anand;Salim Yusuf;Vladmir Vuksan;Sudarshan Devanesen

  • Effects of the angiotensin-receptor blocker telmisartan on cardiovascular events in high-risk patients intolerant to angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors: a randomised controlled trial.

    S Yusuf;K Teo;C Anderson

  • Associations of fats and carbohydrate intake with cardiovascular disease and mortality in 18 countries from five continents (PURE): a prospective cohort study

    Mahshid Dehghan;Andrew Mente;Andrew Mente;Xiaohe Zhang;Sumathi Swaminathan

  • Lower estimated glomerular filtration rate and higher albuminuria are associated with all-cause and cardiovascular mortality.: A collaborative meta-analysis of high-risk population cohorts

    Marije van der Velde;Kunihiro Matsushita;Josef Coresh;Brad C. Astor

  • The effect of physical activity on mortality and cardiovascular disease in 130 000 people from 17 high-income, middle-income, and low-income countries: the PURE study

    Scott A Lear;Weihong Hu;Sumathy Rangarajan;Danijela Gasevic

  • Use of secondary prevention drugs for cardiovascular disease in the community in high-income, middle-income, and low-income countries (the PURE Study): a prospective epidemiological survey

    Salim Yusuf;Shofiqul Islam;Clara K Chow;Sumathy Rangarajan

  • Cardiovascular Risk and Events in 17 Low-, Middle-, and High-Income Countries

    Salim Yusuf;Sumathy Rangarajan;Koon Teo;Shofiqul Islam

  • Effects of ramipril and vitamin E on atherosclerosis: the study to evaluate carotid ultrasound changes in patients treated with ramipril and vitamin E (SECURE).

    Eva M. Lonn;Salim Yusuf;Vladimir Dzavik;C. Ian Doris

  • Urinary Sodium and Potassium Excretion, Mortality, and Cardiovascular Events

    Andrew Mente;Sumathy Rangarajan;Matthew J. McQueen;Xingyu Wang

  • Effect of Lipid Lowering With Rosuvastatin on Progression of Aortic Stenosis Results of the Aortic Stenosis Progression Observation: Measuring Effects of Rosuvastatin (ASTRONOMER) Trial

    Kwan Leung Chan;Koon Teo;Jean G. Dumesnil;Andy Ni

  • Association of Urinary Sodium and Potassium Excretion with Blood Pressure

    Andrew Mente;Sumathy Rangarajan;Matthew J. McQueen;Paul Poirier

Frequent Co-Authors

Salim Yusuf
Salim Yusuf McMaster University
Sonia S. Anand
Sonia S. Anand McMaster University
Alvaro Avezum
Alvaro Avezum Population Health Research Institute
Patricio López-Jaramillo
Patricio López-Jaramillo University of Santander
Sumathy Rangarajan
Sumathy Rangarajan Population Health Research Institute
William S. Weintraub
William S. Weintraub Georgetown University
Annika Rosengren
Annika Rosengren Sahlgrenska University Hospital
Gilles R. Dagenais
Gilles R. Dagenais Université Laval
John A. Spertus
John A. Spertus University of Missouri–Kansas City
Rafael Diaz
Rafael Diaz University of Alberta

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