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Lloyd E. Chambless is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Medicine, with a significant emphasis on cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, epidemiology, hematology, and genetics.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Medicine

Subfields of study encompass:

  • Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
  • Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
  • Epidemiology
  • Hematology
  • Genetics

Chambless's research covers several key topics such as cardiovascular health and disease prevention, cerebrovascular and carotid artery diseases, cardiovascular disease and adiposity, cardiac health and mental health, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, occupational and environmental lung diseases, and atherosclerosis and cardiovascular diseases.

The main topics of their work include:

  • Cardiovascular Health and Disease Prevention
  • Cerebrovascular and Carotid Artery Diseases
  • Cardiovascular Disease and Adiposity
  • Cardiac Health and Mental Health
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • Occupational and environmental lung diseases
  • Atherosclerosis and Cardiovascular Diseases

Chambless has contributed to research published largely in UNC Libraries, which hosts the majority of their 50 publications. Other venues include the Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences / Journal Canadien des Sciences Neurologiques and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

Frequent co-authors with whom they have collaborated multiple times include:

  • Aaron R. Folsom
  • Eric Boerwinkle
  • Christie M. Ballantyne
  • Gerardo Heiss
  • Wayne D. Rosamond

Examples of recent papers authored or co-authored by Chambless are:

  • Carotid Intima-Media Thickness and Presence or Absence of Plaque Improves Prediction of Coronary Heart Disease Risk. The ARIC (Atherosclerosis Risk In Communities) Study, 2020, UNC Libraries
  • Prediction of Incident Heart Failure in General Practice: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study, 2020, UNC Libraries
  • Classification of Heart Failure in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study: A Comparison of Diagnostic Criteria, 2020, UNC Libraries
  • Association of Multiple Anthropometrics of Overweight and Obesity With Incident Heart Failure: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study, 2020, UNC Libraries
  • Trends from 1987 to 2004 in sudden death due to coronary heart disease: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study, 2020, UNC Libraries

Best Publications

  • 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

  • Ankle brachial index combined with Framingham risk score to predict cardiovascular events and mortality: A meta-analysis

    F.G.R. Fowkes;G.D. Murray;I. Butcher;C.L. Heald

  • Neighborhood of residence and incidence of coronary heart disease.

    A V Diez Roux;S S Merkin;D Arnett;L Chambless

  • Lowering homocysteine in patients with ischemic stroke to prevent recurrent stroke, myocardial infarction, and death: the Vitamin Intervention for Stroke Prevention (VISP) randomized controlled trial.

    James F. Toole;M. René Malinow;Lloyd E. Chambless;J. David Spence

  • Carotid Intima-Media Thickness and Presence or Absence of Plaque Improves Prediction of Coronary Heart Disease Risk: The ARIC (Atherosclerosis Risk In Communities) Study

    Vijay Nambi;Vijay Nambi;Lloyd Chambless;Aaron R. Folsom;Max He

  • 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

  • Carotid Wall Thickness is Predictive of Incident Clinical Stroke: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study

    Lloyd E. Chambless;Aaron R. Folsom;Limin X. Clegg;A. Richey Sharrett

  • 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

  • Prospective study of hemostatic factors and incidence of coronary heart disease: the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study.

    Aaron R. Folsom;Kenneth K. Wu;Wayne D. Rosamond;A. Richey Sharrett

  • 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

  • Stroke Incidence and Survival Among Middle-Aged Adults: 9-Year Follow-Up of the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Cohort

    Wayne D. Rosamond;Aaron R. Folsom;Lloyd E. Chambless;Chin Hua Wang

  • Design and Implementation of the Hispanic Community Health Study / Study of Latinos

    Paul D. Sorlie;Larissa M. Avilés-Santa;Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller;Robert C. Kaplan

  • Cardiac Troponin T Measured by a Highly Sensitive Assay Predicts Coronary Heart Disease, Heart Failure, and Mortality in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study

    Justin T. Saunders;Justin T. Saunders;Vijay Nambi;James A. de Lemos;Lloyd E. Chambless

  • Heart failure incidence and survival (from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities study).

    Laura R. Loehr;Wayne D. Rosamond;Patricia P. Chang;Aaron R. Folsom

  • Community surveillance of coronary heart disease in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study: Methods and initial two years' experience

    A D White;A R Folsom;L E Chambless;A R Sharret

  • Arterial Stiffness and the Development of Hypertension: The ARIC Study

    Duanping Liao;Donna K. Arnett;Herman A. Tyroler;Ward A. Riley

  • Associations of ankle-brachial index with clinical coronary heart disease, stroke and preclinical carotid and popliteal atherosclerosis: the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study.

    Zhi Jie Zheng;A. Richey Sharrett;Lloyd E. Chambless;Wayne D. Rosamond

  • Carotid artery intimal-medial wall thickening and plasma homocyst(e)ine in asymptomatic adults. The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study.

    M R Malinow;F J Nieto;M Szklo;L E Chambless

  • Relation of carotid artery wall thickness to diabetes mellitus, fasting glucose and insulin, body size, and physical activity. Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study Investigators.

    Aaron R. Folsom;John H. Eckfeldt;Shimon Weitzman;Jing Ma

  • Identifying Individuals at High Risk for Diabetes The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities study

    Maria Inès Schmidt;Maria Inès Schmidt;Bruce B. Duncan;Bruce B. Duncan;Heejung Bang;James S. Pankow

Frequent Co-Authors

Aaron R. Folsom
Aaron R. Folsom University of Minnesota
Gerardo Heiss
Gerardo Heiss University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Wayne D. Rosamond
Wayne D. Rosamond University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Eric Boerwinkle
Eric Boerwinkle The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Christie M. Ballantyne
Christie M. Ballantyne Baylor College of Medicine
A. Richey Sharrett
A. Richey Sharrett Johns Hopkins University
Thomas H. Mosley
Thomas H. Mosley University of Mississippi Medical Center
Moyses Szklo
Moyses Szklo Johns Hopkins University
Eyal Shahar
Eyal Shahar University of Arizona
Josef Coresh
Josef Coresh New York University

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