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Samia Mora is a medical researcher affiliated with Brigham and Women's Hospital in the United States. Their research mainly focuses on medicine, with a significant number of publications in cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, surgery, endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, public health, environmental and occupational health, and nutrition and dietetics.

The scientist's primary topics of work include:

  • Lipoproteins and Cardiovascular Health
  • Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins
  • Nutritional Studies and Diet
  • Diet and Metabolism Studies
  • Fatty Acid Research and Health
  • Vitamin D Research Studies
  • Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies

Samia Mora has published research in several prominent venues, frequently appearing in:

  • Circulation
  • Atherosclerosis
  • Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  • Clinical Chemistry
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Frequent co-authors contributing to collaborative research include:

  • JoAnn E. Manson
  • Olga Demler
  • Nancy R. Cook
  • Julie E. Buring
  • Paul M. Ridker

Notable recent papers by Samia Mora include:

  • Lipoprotein(a) in atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease and aortic stenosis: a European Atherosclerosis Society consensus statement (2022), published in European Heart Journal
  • Quantifying atherogenic lipoproteins for lipid-lowering strategies: Consensus-based recommendations from EAS and EFLM (2020), published in Atherosclerosis
  • Association of Body Weight With Response to Vitamin D Supplementation and Metabolism (2023), published in JAMA Network Open
  • Managing Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Risk in Young Adults (2022), published in Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  • Association of Lipid, Inflammatory, and Metabolic Biomarkers With Age at Onset for Incident Coronary Heart Disease in Women (2021), published in JAMA Cardiology

Best Publications

  • Discovery and refinement of loci associated with lipid levels

    Cristen J. Willer;Ellen M. Schmidt;Sebanti Sengupta;Gina M. Peloso;Gina M. Peloso;Gina M. Peloso

  • Fasting compared with nonfasting triglycerides and risk of cardiovascular events in women.

    Sandeep Bansal;Julie E. Buring;Nader Rifai;Samia Mora

  • Vitamin D Supplements and Prevention of Cancer and Cardiovascular Disease

    Manson Je;Cook Nr;Lee Im;Christen W

  • Physical Activity and Reduced Risk of Cardiovascular Events: Potential Mediating Mechanisms

    Samia Mora;Nancy Cook;Julie E. Buring;Paul M Ridker

  • Common variants associated with plasma triglycerides and risk for coronary artery disease

    Ron Do;Cristen J. Willer;Ellen M. Schmidt;Sebanti Sengupta

  • Association of LDL Cholesterol, Non–HDL Cholesterol, and Apolipoprotein B Levels With Risk of Cardiovascular Events Among Patients Treated With Statins: A Meta-analysis

    S. Matthijs Boekholdt;Benoit J. Arsenault;Samia Mora;Terje R. Pedersen

  • Marine n−3 Fatty Acids and Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease and Cancer

    Manson Je;Cook Nr;Lee Im;Christen W

  • Fasting is not routinely required for determination of a lipid profile: Clinical and laboratory implications including flagging at desirable concentration cut-points - A joint consensus statement from the European Atherosclerosis Society and European Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

    Børge G. Nordestgaard;Anne Langsted;Samia Mora;Genovefa Kolovou

  • Very low levels of atherogenic lipoproteins and the risk for cardiovascular events: A meta-analysis of statin trials

    S. Matthijs Boekholdt;G. Kees Hovingh;Samia Mora;Benoit J. Arsenault

  • Ability of exercise testing to predict cardiovascular and all-cause death in asymptomatic women: a 20-year follow-up of the lipid research clinics prevalence study.

    Samia Mora;Rita F. Redberg;Yadong Cui;Yadong Cui;Maura K. Whiteman

  • Physical activity attenuates the influence of FTO variants on obesity risk: A meta-analysis of 218,166 adults and 19,268 children

    Tuomas O. Kilpeläinen;Lu Qi;Soren Brage;Stephen J. Sharp

  • LDL particle subclasses, LDL particle size, and carotid atherosclerosis in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA).

    Samia Mora;Moyses Szklo;James D. Otvos;Philip Greenland

  • Association of Physical Activity and Body Mass Index With Novel and Traditional Cardiovascular Biomarkers in Women

    Samia Mora;I-Min Lee;Julie E. Buring;Paul M Ridker

  • Fasting Compared With Nonfasting Lipids and Apolipoproteins for Predicting Incident Cardiovascular Events

    Samia Mora;Nader Rifai;Julie E. Buring;Paul M Ridker

  • Lipoprotein Particle Profiles by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Compared With Standard Lipids and Apolipoproteins in Predicting Incident Cardiovascular Disease in Women

    Samia Mora;James D. Otvos;Nader Rifai;Robert S. Rosenson

  • Baseline and on-statin treatment lipoprotein(a) levels for prediction of cardiovascular events: individual patient-data meta-analysis of statin outcome trials

    Peter Willeit;Peter Willeit;Paul M Ridker;Paul J Nestel;John Simes

  • Lipoprotein(a) concentrations, rosuvastatin therapy, and residual vascular risk: An analysis from the JUPITER trial (justification for the use of statins in prevention: An intervention trial evaluating rosuvastatin)

    Amit V. Khera;Brendan M. Everett;Michael P. Caulfield;Feras M. Hantash

  • A Multivariate Genome-Wide Association Analysis of 10 LDL Subfractions, and Their Response to Statin Treatment, in 1868 Caucasians

    Heejung Shim;Daniel I. Chasman;Joshua D. Smith;Samia Mora

  • Marine n-3 fatty acids and prevention of cardiovascular disease and cancer

    Manson Je;Cook Nr;Lee Im;Christen W

  • Vitamin D supplements and prevention of cancer and cardiovascular disease

    Manson Je;Cook Nr;Lee Im;Christen W

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul M. Ridker
Paul M. Ridker Brigham and Women's Hospital
Julie E. Buring
Julie E. Buring Brigham and Women's Hospital
JoAnn E. Manson
JoAnn E. Manson Harvard Medical School
Nancy R. Cook
Nancy R. Cook Brigham and Women's Hospital
Robert J. Glynn
Robert J. Glynn Harvard Medical School
Daniel I. Chasman
Daniel I. Chasman Brigham and Women's Hospital
I-Min Lee
I-Min Lee Harvard University
Roger S. Blumenthal
Roger S. Blumenthal Johns Hopkins University
James D. Otvos
James D. Otvos North Carolina State University
Nader Rifai
Nader Rifai Boston Children's Hospital

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