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Overview

Susan Redline is a researcher primarily affiliated with Brigham and Women's Hospital in the United States. Their work focuses extensively on medicine, with a significant number of publications in physiology, experimental and cognitive psychology, endocrine and autonomic systems, cognitive neuroscience, and genetics. Their main research topics include obstructive sleep apnea, sleep and related disorders, the neuroscience of respiration and sleep, sleep and wakefulness research, genetic associations and epidemiology, sleep and work-related fatigue, and obesity, physical activity, and diet.

Frequent publication venues for Susan Redline include:

  • SLEEP
  • UNC Libraries
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Circulation
  • Alzheimer s & Dementia

Collaborative work is notable in their career, with frequent co-authors such as Tamar Sofer, Stephen S. Rich, Jerome I. Rotter, Brian E. Cade, and Bruce M. Psaty.

Some of Susan Redline's recent papers are:

  • Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Cardiovascular Disease: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association (2021, Circulation)
  • Inherited causes of clonal haematopoiesis in 97,691 whole genomes (2020, Nature)
  • Tirzepatide for the Treatment of Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Obesity (2024, New England Journal of Medicine)
  • Sleep Irregularity and Risk of Cardiovascular Events (2020, Journal of the American College of Cardiology)
  • Dynamic incorporation of multiple in silico functional annotations empowers rare variant association analysis of large whole-genome sequencing studies at scale (2020, Nature Genetics)

Awards associated with Susan Redline include membership in the Association of American Physicians.

Best Publications

  • Sleep-related breathing disorders in adults: Recommendations for syndrome definition and measurement techniques in clinical research

    W. W. Flemons;D. Buysse;Susan Redline;A. Oack

  • Association of Sleep-Disordered Breathing, Sleep Apnea, and Hypertension in a Large Community-Based Study

    F. Javier Nieto;Terry B. Young;Bonnie K. Lind;Eyal Shahar

  • Rules for Scoring Respiratory Events in Sleep: Update of the 2007 AASM Manual for the Scoring of Sleep and Associated Events

    Richard B. Berry;Rohit Budhiraja;Daniel J. Gottlieb;David Gozal

  • Sleep-disordered breathing and cardiovascular disease: cross-sectional results of the Sleep Heart Health Study.

    Shahar E;Whitney Cw;Redline S;Lee Et

  • Effects of Smoking Intervention and the Use of an Inhaled Anticholinergic Bronchodilator on the Rate of Decline of FEV1: The Lung Health Study

    Nicholas R. Anthonisen;John E. Connett;James P. Kiley;Murray D Altose

  • Sequencing of 53,831 diverse genomes from the NHLBI TOPMed Program.

    Daniel Taliun;Daniel N. Harris;Michael D. Kessler;Jedidiah Carlson;Jedidiah Carlson

  • CPAP for Prevention of Cardiovascular Events in Obstructive Sleep Apnea

    R. D. McEvoy;N. A. Antic;E. Heeley;Y. Luo

  • Predictors of sleep-disordered breathing in community-dwelling adults: the Sleep Heart Health Study.

    Terry Young;Eyal Shahar;F. Javier Nieto;Susan Redline

  • Prospective study of obstructive sleep apnea and incident coronary heart disease and heart failure: The sleep heart health study

    Daniel J. Gottlieb;Gayane Yenokyan;Anne B. Newman;George T. O'Connor

  • Objective Measurement of Patterns of Nasal CPAP Use by Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea

    Nancy Barone Kribbs;Allan I. Pack;Lewis R. Kline;Philip L. Smith

  • Sleep-disordered breathing and mortality: A prospective cohort study

    Naresh M. Punjabi;Brian S. Caffo;James L. Goodwin;Daniel J. Gottlieb

  • Association of nocturnal arrhythmias with sleep-disordered breathing: The sleep heart health study

    Reena Mehra;Emelia J. Benjamin;Eyal Shahar;Daniel J. Gottlieb

  • Obstructive Sleep Apnea–Hypopnea and Incident Stroke: the Sleep Heart Health Study

    Susan Redline;Gayane Yenokyan;Daniel J. Gottlieb;Daniel J. Gottlieb;Eyal Shahar

  • Risk factors for sleep-disordered breathing in children. Associations with obesity, race, and respiratory problems.

    Susan Redline;Peter V. Tishler;Mark Schluchter;Joan Aylor

  • Sleep-Disordered Breathing, Glucose Intolerance, and Insulin Resistance The Sleep Heart Health Study

    Naresh M. Punjabi;Eyal Shahar;Susan Redline;Daniel J. Gottlieb

  • A Randomized Trial of Adenotonsillectomy for Childhood Sleep Apnea

    Carole L. Marcus;Reneé H. Moore;Reneé H. Moore;Carol L. Rosen;Bruno Giordani

  • Sleep-disordered breathing, hypoxia, and risk of mild cognitive impairment and dementia in older women

    Kristine Yaffe;Kristine Yaffe;Alison M. Laffan;Stephanie Litwack Harrison;Susan Redline

  • The Sleep Heart Health Study: design, rationale, and methods.

    Stuart F. Quan;Barbara V. Howard;Conrad Iber;Conrad Iber;James P. Kiley

  • Association of sleep time with diabetes mellitus and impaired glucose tolerance.

    Daniel J. Gottlieb;Naresh M. Punjabi;Ann B. Newman;Helaine E. Resnick

  • Sequencing of 53,831 diverse genomes from the NHLBI TOPMed Program

    Daniel Taliun;Daniel N. Harris;Michael D. Kessler;Jedidiah Carlson;Jedidiah Carlson

Frequent Co-Authors

Katie L. Stone
Katie L. Stone University of California, San Francisco
Daniel J. Gottlieb
Daniel J. Gottlieb Brigham and Women's Hospital
Sanjay R. Patel
Sanjay R. Patel University of Pittsburgh
Sonia Ancoli-Israel
Sonia Ancoli-Israel University of California, San Diego
Bruce M. Psaty
Bruce M. Psaty University of Washington
Eric Boerwinkle
Eric Boerwinkle The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Jerome I. Rotter
Jerome I. Rotter UCLA Medical Center
Phyllis C. Zee
Phyllis C. Zee Northwestern University
Kristine E. Ensrud
Kristine E. Ensrud University of Minnesota
Richa Saxena
Richa Saxena Harvard University

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