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Overview

Nathan D. Wong is a researcher affiliated with the University of California, Irvine in the United States. Their research primarily resides within the field of Medicine, with a particular focus on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Surgery, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, as well as Economics and Econometrics.

The scientist's main topics of work include Lipoproteins and Cardiovascular Health, Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins, Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics, Cardiovascular Health and Risk Factors, Diabetes Treatment and Management, Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors, and Cardiovascular Disease and Adiposity.

Nathan D. Wong has contributed extensively to scientific literature, including multiple recent papers such as:

  • Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics-2023 Update: A Report From the American Heart Association (2023, Circulation)
  • 2024 Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics: A Report of US and Global Data From the American Heart Association (2024, Circulation)
  • 2025 Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics: A Report of US and Global Data From the American Heart Association (2025, Circulation)
  • Prevalence of statin intolerance: a meta-analysis (2022, European Heart Journal)
  • Cardiovascular risk in diabetes mellitus: epidemiology, assessment and prevention (2023, Nature Reviews Cardiology)

Among frequent collaborators, Nathan D. Wong works with several researchers including Matthew J. Budoff, Wenjun Fan, Erin D. Michos, Peter P. Tóth, and Anthony P. Reeves.

Publication venues where Wong has frequently published include the American Journal of Preventive Cardiology, Circulation, the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, the Journal of Clinical Lipidology, and The American Journal of Cardiology.

In addition to articles, Nathan D. Wong has contributed to book publications, notably one released by Humana Press entitled ASPC Manual of Preventive Cardiology in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics—2014 Update A Report From the American Heart Association

    Alan S. Go;Dariush Mozaffarian;Veronique Lee Roger;Emelia J. Benjamin

  • Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics—2012 Update A Report From the American Heart Association

    Véronique L. Roger;Alan S. Go;Donald M. Lloyd-Jones;Emelia J. Benjamin

  • Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics—2011 Update A Report From the American Heart Association

    Véronique L. Roger;Alan S. Go;Donald M. Lloyd-Jones;Robert J. Adams

  • Executive Summary: Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics—2013 Update A Report From the American Heart Association

    Alan S. Go;Dariush Mozaffarian;Véronique L. Roger;Emelia J. Benjamin

  • Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics—2013 Update A Report From the American Heart Association

    Alan S. Go;Dariush Mozaffarian;Véronique L. Roger;Emelia J. Benjamin

  • Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics—2010 Update A Report From the American Heart Association

    Donald Lloyd-Jones;Robert J. Adams;Todd M. Brown;Mercedes Carnethon

  • Executive summary: Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics - 2014 Update: A report from the American Heart Association

    Alan S. Go;Dariush Mozaffarian;Véronique L. Roger;Emelia J. Benjamin

  • Heart disease and stroke statistics--2009 update: a report from the American Heart Association Statistics Committee and Stroke Statistics Subcommittee.

    Donald Lloyd-Jones;Robert Adams;Mercedes Carnethon;Giovanni De Simone

  • Executive Summary: Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics—2010 Update

    Donald Lloyd-Jones;Robert J. Adams;Todd M. Brown

  • Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics—2009 Update

    Donald Lloyd-Jones;Robert Adams;Mercedes Carnethon

  • Is Pulse Pressure Useful in Predicting Risk for Coronary Heart Disease? The Framingham Heart Study

    Stanley S. Franklin;Shehzad A. Khan;Nathan D. Wong;Martin G. Larson

  • 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

  • Hemodynamic Patterns of Age-Related Changes in Blood Pressure: The Framingham Heart Study

    Stanley S. Franklin;William Gustin;Nathan D. Wong;Martin G. Larson

  • Estrogen plus progestin and the risk of coronary heart disease

    JoAnn A E Manson;Judith Hsia;Karen C. Johnson;Jacques E. Rossouw

  • Impact of the Metabolic Syndrome on Mortality From Coronary Heart Disease, Cardiovascular Disease, and All Causes in United States Adults

    Shaista Malik;Nathan D. Wong;Stanley S. Franklin;Tripthi V. Kamath

  • Does the Relation of Blood Pressure to Coronary Heart Disease Risk Change With Aging? The Framingham Heart Study

    Stanley S. Franklin;Martin G. Larson;Shehzad A. Khan;Nathan D. Wong

  • Computed tomographic angiography characteristics of atherosclerotic plaques subsequently resulting in acute coronary syndrome.

    Sadako Motoyama;Masayoshi Sarai;Hiroto Harigaya;Hirofumi Anno

  • Executive Summary: Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics—2012 Update A Report From the American Heart Association

    Véronique L. Roger;Alan S. Go;Donald M. Lloyd-Jones;Emelia J. Benjamin

  • Calcified Coronary Artery Plaque Measurement with Cardiac CT in Population-based Studies: Standardized Protocol of Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) and Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) Study

    J. Jeffrey Carr;Jennifer Clark Nelson;Nathan D. Wong;Michael McNitt-Gray

  • Myocardial Iodine-123 Meta-Iodobenzylguanidine Imaging and Cardiac Events in Heart Failure. Results of the Prospective ADMIRE-HF (AdreView Myocardial Imaging for Risk Evaluation in Heart Failure) Study

    Arnold F. Jacobson;Roxy Senior;Manuel D. Cerqueira;Nathan D. Wong

Frequent Co-Authors

Matthew J. Budoff
Matthew J. Budoff UCLA Medical Center
Daniel S. Berman
Daniel S. Berman Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Robert Detrano
Robert Detrano University of California, Irvine
Roger S. Blumenthal
Roger S. Blumenthal Johns Hopkins University
Khurram Nasir
Khurram Nasir Houston Methodist
John D. Friedman
John D. Friedman Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Sean W. Hayes
Sean W. Hayes Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Leslee J. Shaw
Leslee J. Shaw Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Julius M. Gardin
Julius M. Gardin Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Alain G. Bertoni
Alain G. Bertoni Wake Forest University

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