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Rozenn N. Lemaitre is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with substantial contributions in molecular biology, nutrition and dietetics, genetics, biochemistry, and cardiology and cardiovascular medicine.

Their work includes investigation into fatty acid research and health, sphingolipid metabolism and signaling, eicosanoids and hypertension pharmacology, nutritional studies and diet, genetic associations and epidemiology, diet and metabolism studies, and the role of gut microbiota and health.

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Lemaitre include:

  • Blood n-3 fatty acid levels and total and cause-specific mortality from 17 prospective studies (2021, Nature Communications)
  • Very long-chain saturated fatty acids and diabetes and cardiovascular disease (2021, Current Opinion in Lipidology)
  • Longitudinal Plasma Measures of Trimethylamine N-Oxide and Risk of Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease Events in Community-Based Older Adults (2021, Journal of the American Heart Association)
  • n-3 Fatty Acid Biomarkers and Incident Type 2 Diabetes: An Individual Participant-Level Pooling Project of 20 Prospective Cohort Studies (2021, Diabetes Care)
  • Admission respiratory status predicts mortality in COVID-19 (2021, Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses)

The scientist frequently collaborates with notable researchers including David S. Siscovick, Amanda M. Fretts, Bruce M. Psaty, Dariush Mozaffarian, and Nona Sotoodehnia. These collaborations reflect sustained partnerships across multiple studies.

Lemaitre's publications often appear in well-recognized venues such as:

  • Circulation
  • UNC Libraries
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
  • Journal of the American Heart Association

Their research encompasses a broad array of interconnected topics, focusing extensively on fatty acids and their implications for health outcomes, lipid metabolism pathways, pharmacological effects on hypertension, and genetic factors influencing diet-related diseases. This multidisciplinary approach underlines their contributions to understanding complex biochemical and clinical phenomena.

Best Publications

  • The Risk of Myocardial Infarction Associated With Antihypertensive Drug Therapies

    Bruce M. Psaty;Susan R. Heckbert;Thomas D. Koepsell;David S. Siscovick

  • Dietary Intake and Cell Membrane Levels of Long-Chain n-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids and the Risk of Primary Cardiac Arrest

    David S. Siscovick;T. E. Raghunathan;Irena King;Sheila Weinmann

  • Health Outcomes Associated with Antihypertensive Therapies Used as First-Line Agents: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

    Bruce M. Psaty;Nicholas L. Smith;David S. Siscovick;Thomas D. Koepsell

  • Relationship of C-Reactive Protein to Risk of Cardiovascular Disease in the Elderly Results From the Cardiovascular Health Study and the Rural Health Promotion Project

    Russell P. Tracy;Rozenn N. Lemaitre;Bruce M. Psaty;Diane G. Ives

  • The trans-ancestral genomic architecture of glycemic traits

    Ji Chen;Ji Chen;Cassandra N. Spracklen;Cassandra N. Spracklen;Gaëlle Marenne;Gaëlle Marenne;Arushi Varshney

  • Multi-Ethnic Genome-wide Association Study for Atrial Fibrillation

    Carolina Roselli;Mark D. Chaffin;Lu Chen Weng;Lu Chen Weng;Stefanie Aeschbacher

  • Fish Intake and Risk of Incident Atrial Fibrillation

    Dariush Mozaffarian;Bruce M. Psaty;Eric B. Rimm;Rozenn N. Lemaitre

  • n−3 Polyunsaturated fatty acids, fatal ischemic heart disease, and nonfatal myocardial infarction in older adults: the Cardiovascular Health Study

    Rozenn N Lemaitre;Irena B King;Dariush Mozaffarian;Lewis H Kuller

  • Cardiac Benefits of Fish Consumption May Depend on the Type of Fish Meal Consumed The Cardiovascular Health Study

    Dariush Mozaffarian;Rozenn N. Lemaitre;Lewis H. Kuller;Gregory L. Burke

  • Family History as a Risk Factor for Primary Cardiac Arrest

    Yechiel Friedlander;David S. Siscovick;Sheila Weinmann;Melissa A. Austin

  • Genetic loci associated with plasma phospholipid n-3 fatty acids: a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies from the CHARGE Consortium.

    Rozenn N. Lemaitre;Toshiko Tanaka;Weihong Tang;Ani Manichaikul

  • Trans-palmitoleic acid, metabolic risk factors, and new-onset diabetes in U.S. adults: a cohort study

    Dariush Mozaffarian;Haiming Cao;Irena B King;Rozenn N Lemaitre

  • Plasma Phospholipid Long-Chain ω-3 Fatty Acids and Total and Cause-Specific Mortality in Older Adults: A Cohort Study

    Dariush Mozaffarian;Rozenn N. Lemaitre;Irena B. King;Xiaoling Song

  • Association of cholesterol with stroke risk varies in stroke subtypes and patient subgroups

    D. L. Tirschwell;N. L. Smith;S. R. Heckbert;R. N. Lemaitre

  • ω-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid Biomarkers and Coronary Heart Disease: Pooling Project of 19 Cohort Studies

    Liana C. Del Gobbo;Fumiaki Imamura;Stella Aslibekyan;Matti Marklund

  • The Risk of Myocardial Infarction Associated With the Combined Use of Estrogens and Progestins in Postmenopausal Women

    Bruce M. Psaty;Susan R. Heckbert;David Atkins;Rozenn Lemaitre

  • Cereal, Fruit, and Vegetable Fiber Intake and the Risk of Cardiovascular Disease in Elderly Individuals

    Dariush Mozaffarian;Shiriki K. Kumanyika;Rozenn N. Lemaitre;Jean L. Olson

  • Fish intake and risk of incident heart failure.

    Dariush Mozaffarian;Chris L. Bryson;Rozenn N. Lemaitre;Gregory L. Burke

  • Fibrinolytic Activation Markers Predict Myocardial Infarction in the Elderly: The Cardiovascular Health Study

    Mary Cushman;Rozenn N. Lemaitre;Lewis H. Kuller;Bruce M. Psaty

  • Diabetes, glucose level, and risk of sudden cardiac death.

    Xavier Jouven;Rozenn N. Lemaître;Thomas D. Rea;Nona Sotoodehnia

Frequent Co-Authors

Bruce M. Psaty
Bruce M. Psaty University of Washington
Dariush Mozaffarian
Dariush Mozaffarian Tufts University
David S. Siscovick
David S. Siscovick University of Washington
Nona Sotoodehnia
Nona Sotoodehnia University of Washington
Barbara McKnight
Barbara McKnight University of Washington
Susan R. Heckbert
Susan R. Heckbert University of Washington
Olli T. Raitakari
Olli T. Raitakari Turku University Hospital
Luc Djoussé
Luc Djoussé Harvard Medical School
Nicholas L. Smith
Nicholas L. Smith University of Washington
Ani Manichaikul
Ani Manichaikul University of Virginia

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