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  • 2006 - Distinguished Scientist Award, American Heart Association

Overview

Philip A. Wolf is affiliated with Boston University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with specific contributions in critical care and intensive care medicine, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, and anesthesiology and pain medicine.

Wolf has produced work addressing intensive care unit cognitive disorders, cardiac, anesthesia and surgical outcomes, and the effects of anesthesia and sedative agents. These topics represent significant areas of their scientific investigation.

One of the recent papers authored by Wolf is titled "SURGE-ahead postoperative delirium prediction: external validation and open-source library," published in 2025 in the journal European Geriatric Medicine.

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  • European Geriatric Medicine

In 2006 Wolf received the Distinguished Scientist Award from the American Heart Association.

Best Publications

  • Atrial fibrillation as an independent risk factor for stroke: the Framingham Study.

    Philip A. Wolf;Robert D. Abbott;William B. Kannel

  • General Cardiovascular Risk Profile for Use in Primary Care The Framingham Heart Study

    Ralph B. D’Agostino;Ramachandran S. Vasan;Michael J. Pencina;Philip A. Wolf

  • Vascular dementia Diagnostic criteria for research studies: Report of the NINDS‐AIREN International Workshop*

    Gustavo C. Roman;T. K. Tatemichi;T. Erkinjuntti;J. L. Cummings

  • Impact of Atrial Fibrillation on the Risk of Death The Framingham Heart Study

    Emelia J. Benjamin;Philip A. Wolf;Ralph B. D’Agostino;Halit Silbershatz

  • Independent risk factors for atrial fibrillation in a population-based cohort. The Framingham Heart Study.

    Emelia J. Benjamin;Daniel Levy;Sonya M. Vaziri;Ralph B. D'Agostino

  • Plasma Homocysteine as a Risk Factor for Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease

    Sudha Seshadri;Alexa Beiser;Jacob Selhub;Paul F Jacques

  • Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics—2006 Update A Report From the American Heart Association Statistics Committee and Stroke Statistics Subcommittee

    Thomas Thom;Nancy Haase;Wayne Rosamond

  • Prevalence, incidence, prognosis, and predisposing conditions for atrial fibrillation : population-based estimates

    W.B Kannel;P.A Wolf;E.J Benjamin;D Levy

  • Lifetime risk for development of atrial fibrillation: the Framingham Heart Study.

    Donald M. Lloyd-Jones;Thomas J. Wang;Thomas J. Wang;Eric P. Leip;Eric P. Leip;Martin G. Larson;Martin G. Larson

  • Probability of stroke: a risk profile from the Framingham Study.

    P A Wolf;R B D'Agostino;A J Belanger;W B Kannel

  • Temporal relations of atrial fibrillation and congestive heart failure and their joint influence on mortality: the Framingham Heart Study.

    Thomas J. Wang;Martin G. Larson;Martin G. Larson;Daniel Levy;Daniel Levy;Ramachandran S. Vasan;Ramachandran S. Vasan

  • The effects of specific medical conditions on the functional limitations of elders in the Framingham Study.

    A. A. Guccione;D. T. Felson;J. J. Anderson;J. M. Anthony

  • Epidemiologic assessment of chronic atrial fibrillation and risk of stroke: The Framingham Study

    P. A. Wolf;T. R. Dawber;H. E. Thomas;W. B. Kannel

  • Atrial Fibrillation: A Major Contributor to Stroke in the Elderly. The Framingham Study

    Philip A. Wolf;Robert D. Abbott;William B. Kannel

  • Fibrinogen and risk of cardiovascular disease. The Framingham Study.

    William B. Kannel;Philip A. Wolf;William P. Castelli;Ralph B. D'Agostino

  • Plasma Natriuretic Peptide Levels and the Risk of Cardiovascular Events and Death

    Thomas J. Wang;Martin G. Larson;Daniel Levy;Daniel Levy;Emelia J. Benjamin;Emelia J. Benjamin

  • Stroke Severity in Atrial Fibrillation The Framingham Study

    Huey-Juan Lin;Philip A. Wolf;Margaret Kelly-Hayes;Alexa S. Beiser

  • Association between Plasma Homocysteine Concentrations and Extracranial Carotid-Artery Stenosis

    Jacob Selhub;Paul F. Jacques;Andrew G. Bostom;Ralph B. D'Agostino

  • Obesity and the Risk of New-Onset Atrial Fibrillation

    Thomas J. Wang;Helen Parise;Helen Parise;Daniel Levy;Daniel Levy;Ralph B. D'agostino;Ralph B. D'agostino

  • Low Serum Thyrotropin Concentrations as a Risk Factor for Atrial Fibrillation in Older Persons

    Clark T. Sawin;Andrew Geller;Philip A. Wolf;Albert J. Belanger

Frequent Co-Authors

Sudha Seshadri
Sudha Seshadri The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Alexa Beiser
Alexa Beiser Boston University
Ralph B. D'Agostino
Ralph B. D'Agostino Wake Forest University
Rhoda Au
Rhoda Au Boston University
Charles DeCarli
Charles DeCarli University of California, Davis
Ramachandran S. Vasan
Ramachandran S. Vasan The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Emelia J. Benjamin
Emelia J. Benjamin Boston University
Carlos S. Kase
Carlos S. Kase Boston University
William B. Kannel
William B. Kannel Boston University
Daniel Levy
Daniel Levy National Institutes of Health

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