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Overview

Mark Woodward is affiliated with Imperial College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine, with a focus on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Nephrology, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, and Epidemiology.

The main topics covered in Woodward's research include:

  • Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies
  • Dialysis and Renal Disease Management
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • Nutritional Studies and Diet
  • Sex and Gender in Healthcare
  • Lipoproteins and Cardiovascular Health
  • Chronic Kidney Disease and Diabetes

Woodward has published extensively in a number of venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • Journal of Hypertension
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • European Heart Journal
  • Heart Lung and Circulation
  • Diabetes Obesity and Metabolism

Key recent publications by Mark Woodward include:

  • Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: a pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants, 2021, The Lancet
  • 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
  • Effect of dose and duration of reduction in dietary sodium on blood pressure levels: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised trials, 2020, BMJ
  • Prevalence of chronic kidney disease in Asia: a systematic review and analysis, 2022, BMJ Global Health
  • Age-stratified and blood-pressure-stratified effects of blood-pressure-lowering pharmacotherapy for the prevention of cardiovascular disease and death: an individual participant-level data meta-analysis, 2021, The Lancet

Frequent co-authors who collaborate with Woodward include:

  • John Chalmers
  • Katie Harris
  • Sanne A. E. Peters
  • Cheryl Carcel
  • Craig S. Anderson

Best Publications

  • Intensive blood glucose control and vascular outcomes in patients with type 2 diabetes.

    Anushka Patel;Stephen MacMahon;John Chalmers

  • Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults

    Leandra Abarca-Gómez;Ziad A Abdeen;Zargar Abdul Hamid;Niveen M Abu-Rmeileh

  • Global, regional, and national burden of stroke and its risk factors, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    Valery L Feigin;Benjamin A Stark;Catherine Owens Johnson;Gregory A Roth

  • Trends in adult body-mass index in 200 countries from 1975 to 2014: A pooled analysis of 1698 population-based measurement studies with 19.2 million participants

    Mariachiara Di Cesare;Mariachiara Di Cesare;James Bentham;Gretchen A Stevens;Bin Zhou

  • Association of estimated glomerular filtration rate and albuminuria with all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in general population cohorts: a collaborative meta-analysis.

    Kunihiro Matsushita;Marije van der Velde;Brad C. Astor;Mark Woodward

  • Randomised trial of a perindopril-based blood-pressure-lowering regimen among 6105 individuals with previous stroke or transient ischaemic attack

    S. MacMahon;B. Neal;C. Tzourio;A. Rodgers

  • Worldwide trends in diabetes since 1980: a pooled analysis of 751 population-based studies with 4.4 million participants

    Bin Zhou;Yuan Lu;Kaveh Hajifathalian;James Bentham

  • Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: a pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants

    Bin Zhou;Rodrigo M Carrillo-Larco;Goodarz Danaei;Leanne M Riley

  • Body-mass index and all-cause mortality: individual-participant-data meta-analysis of 239 prospective studies in four continents

    Emanuele Di Angelantonio;Shilpa N Bhupathiraju;David Wormser;Pei Gao;Pei Gao

  • Worldwide trends in blood pressure from 1975 to 2015: a pooled analysis of 1479 population-based measurement studies with 19·1 million participants

    Bin Zhou;James Bentham;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Honor Bixby

  • Excess risk of fatal coronary heart disease associated with diabetes in men and women: meta-analysis of 37 prospective cohort studies

    Rachel R. Huxley;Federica Barzi;Mark Woodward

  • Severe Hypoglycemia and Risks of Vascular Events and Death

    Sophia Zoungas;Sophia Zoungas;Anushka Patel;John Chalmers;Bastiaan E. de Galan;Bastiaan E. de Galan

  • Plasma fibrinogen level and the risk of major cardiovascular diseases and nonvascular mortality: an individual participant meta-analysis.

    J Danesh;S Lewington;S G Thompson;Lowe Gdo.

  • Indices of abdominal obesity are better discriminators of cardiovascular risk factors than BMI: a meta-analysis

    Crystal Man Ying Lee;Rachel R. Huxley;Rachel P. Wildman;Mark Woodward

  • A century of trends in adult human height

    James Bentham;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Gretchen A. Stevens;Bin Zhou

  • Separate and combined associations of body-mass index and abdominal adiposity with cardiovascular disease: collaborative analysis of 58 prospective studies

    D Wormser;S Kaptoge;E Di Angelantonio

  • Intensive glucose control and macrovascular outcomes in type 2 diabetes

    Fiona Turnbull;C. Abraira;R. J. Anderson;R. J. Anderson;R. P. Byington

  • C-Reactive Protein, Fibrinogen, and Cardiovascular Disease Prediction

    Stephen Kaptoge;Emanuele Di Angelantonio;Lisa Pennells;Angela M. Wood

  • Associations of kidney disease measures with mortality and end-stage renal disease in individuals with and without diabetes: a meta-analysis

    Caroline S. Fox;Kunihiro Matsushita;Mark Woodward;Mark Woodward;Henk J.G. Bilo

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

John Chalmers
John Chalmers University of New South Wales
Bruce Neal
Bruce Neal George Institute for Global Health
Rachel R. Huxley
Rachel R. Huxley Deakin University
Sophia Zoungas
Sophia Zoungas Monash University
Anushka Patel
Anushka Patel University of New South Wales
Stephen MacMahon
Stephen MacMahon University of Oxford
Craig S. Anderson
Craig S. Anderson George Institute for Global Health
Tai Hing Lam
Tai Hing Lam University of Hong Kong
Michel Marre
Michel Marre Université Paris Cité
Pavel Hamet
Pavel Hamet University of Montreal

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