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Overview

Shah Ebrahim is affiliated with the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the field of Medicine, with a focus on subfields such as Genetics, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, General Health Professions, and Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management.

Their scholarly output covers several main topics, including Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology, Global Health Care Issues, Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet, Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment, Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies, and Cardiovascular Health and Risk Factors.

Shah Ebrahim has contributed to multiple research papers, among which recent notable publications include:

  • Bearing the brunt of covid-19: older people in low and middle income countries, 2020, BMJ
  • Mendel's laws, Mendelian randomization and causal inference in observational data: substantive and nomenclatural issues, 2020, European Journal of Epidemiology
  • A Community-Based Intervention for Managing Hypertension in Rural South Asia, 2020, New England Journal of Medicine
  • Trends in premature avertable mortality from non-communicable diseases for 195 countries and territories, 1990-2017: a population-based study, 2020, The Lancet Global Health
  • Yoga-Based Cardiac Rehabilitation After Acute Myocardial Infarction, 2020, Journal of the American College of Cardiology

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers. Their main co-authors include George Davey Smith, Dorairaj Prabhakaran, Sanjay Kinra, Peter Lloyd-Sherlock, and Martin McKee.

Shah Ebrahim's research has been published in a number of venues, with frequent appearances in:

  • UNC Libraries
  • PLoS Medicine
  • BMJ
  • The Lancet Global Health
  • Nature Medicine

Best Publications

  • A common variant in the FTO gene is associated with body mass index and predisposes to childhood and adult obesity

    Timothy M. Frayling;Nicholas J. Timpson;Michael N. Weedon;Eleftheria Zeggini;Eleftheria Zeggini;Eleftheria Zeggini

  • European guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice (version 2012) : the fifth joint task force of the European society of cardiology and other societies on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice (constituted by representatives of nine societies and by invited experts).

    J Perk;G De Backer;H Gohlke;I Graham

  • ‘Mendelian randomization’: can genetic epidemiology contribute to understanding environmental determinants of disease?

    George Davey Smith;Shah Ebrahim

  • European guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice. Third Joint Task Force of European and other Societies on Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Clinical Practice (constituted by representatives of eight societies and by invited experts).

    Guy De Backer;Ettore Ambrosioni;Knut Borch-Johnsen;Carlos Brotons

  • Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index

    Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Cristen J. Willer;Sonja I. Berndt;Keri L. Monda

  • European guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice. Third Joint Task Force of European and Other Societies on Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Clinical Practice.

    Guy De Backer;Ettore Ambrosioni;Knut Borch-Johnsen;Carlos Brotons

  • Exercise-based rehabilitation for patients with coronary heart disease: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.

    Rod S Taylor;Allan Brown;Shah Ebrahim;Judith Jolliffe

  • Homocysteine and risk of ischemic heart disease and stroke: A meta-analysis

    R. Clarke;R. Collins;S. Lewington;A. Donald

  • New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk

    Josée Dupuis;Josée Dupuis;Claudia Langenberg;Inga Prokopenko;Richa Saxena;Richa Saxena

  • Statins for the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease.

    Fiona Taylor;Mark D Huffman;Ana Filipa Macedo;Theresa H M Moore

  • European guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice: full text. Fourth Joint Task Force of the European Society of Cardiology and other societies on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice (constituted by representatives of nine societies and by invited experts).

    Ian Graham;Dan Atar;Knut Borch-Johnsen;Knut Borch-Johnsen;Gudrun Boysen

  • Priority actions for the non-communicable disease crisis

    Robert Beaglehole;Ruth Bonita;Richard Horton;Cary Adams

  • Mannheim carotid intima-media thickness consensus (2004-2006). An update on behalf of the Advisory Board of the 3rd and 4th Watching the Risk Symposium, 13th and 15th European Stroke Conferences, Mannheim, Germany, 2004, and Brussels, Belgium, 2006.

    P.-J. Touboul;M.G. Hennerici;S. Meairs;H. Adams

  • EUROPEAN GUIDELINES ON CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE PREVENTION IN CLINICAL PRACTICE

    G. De Backer;E. Ambrosioni;K. Borch-Johnsen;C. Brotons

  • Newly identified loci that influence lipid concentrations and risk of coronary artery disease

    Cristen J. Willer;Serena Sanna;Anne U. Jackson;Angelo Scuteri

  • Mannheim Carotid Intima-Media Thickness and Plaque Consensus (2004-2006-2011). An Update on Behalf of the Advisory Board of the 3rd, 4th and 5th Watching the Risk Symposia, at the 13th, 15th and 20th European Stroke Conferences, Mannheim, Germany, 2004, Brussels, Belgium, 2006, and Hamburg, Germany, 2011.

    P.-J. Touboul;M.G. Hennerici;S. Meairs;H. Adams

  • A genome-wide association search for type 2 diabetes genes in African Americans.

    N D Palmer;C W McDonough;P J Hicks;B H Roh

  • European Guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice (version 2012): the Fifth Joint Task Force of the European Society of Cardiology and Other Societies on Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Clinical Practice (constituted by representatives of nine societies and by invited experts).

    Joep Perk;Guy De Backer;Helmut Gohlke;Ian Graham

  • Exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation for coronary heart disease (Review)

    Balraj S. Heran;Jenny M.H. Chen;Shah Ebrahim;Tiffany Moxham

  • Erratum: New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk (Nature Genetics (2010) 42 (105-116))

    Josée Dupuis;Claudia Langenberg;Inga Prokopenko;Richa Saxena

Frequent Co-Authors

George Davey Smith
George Davey Smith University of Bristol
Debbie A. Lawlor
Debbie A. Lawlor University of Bristol
Yoav Ben-Shlomo
Yoav Ben-Shlomo University of Bristol
Juan P. Casas
Juan P. Casas Boston University
Peter H. Whincup
Peter H. Whincup St George's, University of London
Dorairaj Prabhakaran
Dorairaj Prabhakaran Centre for Chronic Disease Control
Nicholas J. Timpson
Nicholas J. Timpson University of Bristol
Nicholas J. Wareham
Nicholas J. Wareham University of Cambridge
David Stuckler
David Stuckler Bocconi University
Philippe Froguel
Philippe Froguel Imperial College London

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