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Vera Bittner is affiliated with the University of Alabama at Birmingham in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within medicine, focusing extensively on cardiology and cardiovascular medicine as well as related subfields such as surgery, endocrinology, diabetes, metabolism, economics, and econometrics.

The scientist has contributed notably to topics including lipoproteins and cardiovascular health, health systems and economic evaluations, diabetes and cardiovascular risks, pharmaceutical economics and policy, acute myocardial infarction research, antiplatelet therapy, and the intersection of cardiac health and mental health.

Bittner's frequent publication venues are:

  • Circulation
  • Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  • European Heart Journal
  • Journal of Clinical Lipidology
  • European Journal of Preventive Cardiology

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Vera Bittner include:

  • 2023 AHA/ACC/ACCP/ASPC/NLA/PCNA Guideline for the Management of Patients With Chronic Coronary Disease: A Report of the American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology Joint Committee on Clinical Practice Guidelines (2023), published in Circulation
  • Effect of Alirocumab on Lipoprotein(a) and Cardiovascular Risk After Acute Coronary Syndrome (2020), published in Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  • 2023 AHA/ACC/ACCP/ASPC/NLA/PCNA Guideline for the Management of Patients With Chronic Coronary Disease (2023), published in Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  • Addressing Social Determinants of Health in the Care of Patients With Heart Failure: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association (2020), published in Circulation
  • Lipoprotein(a) lowering by alirocumab reduces the total burden of cardiovascular events independent of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol lowering: ODYSSEY OUTCOMES trial (2020), published in European Heart Journal

Vera Bittner has collaborated extensively with several researchers, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Michael Szarek
  • Deepak L. Bhatt
  • Philippe Gabríel Steg
  • J. Wouter Jukema
  • Gregory G. Schwartz

Their main field of study is medicine, with 274 publications overall, and prominent subfields include surgery with 99 publications, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine with 84, economics and econometrics with 54, endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism with 33, and cancer research with 14 publications.

Best Publications

  • Cardiovascular Disease Outcomes During 6.8 Years of Hormone Therapy: Heart and Estrogen/Progestin Replacement Study Follow-up (HERS II)

    Stephen Hulley;Curt Furberg;Elizabeth Barrett-Connor;Jane Cauley

  • Triglycerides and Cardiovascular Disease A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association

    Michael Miller;Neil J. Stone;Christie Ballantyne;Vera Bittner

  • HDL Cholesterol, Very Low Levels of LDL Cholesterol, and Cardiovascular Events

    Philip Barter;Antonio M. Gotto;John C. LaRosa;Jaman Maroni

  • Exercise Standards for Testing and Training A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association

    Gerald F. Fletcher;Philip A. Ades;Paul Kligfield;Ross A. Arena

  • Core components of cardiac rehabilitation/secondary prevention programs: 2007 update: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association Exercise, Cardiac Rehabilitation, and Prevention Committee, the Council on Clinical Cardiology; the Councils on Cardiovascular Nursing, Epidemiology and Prevention, and Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Metabolism; and the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation.

    Gary J. Balady;Mark A. Williams;Philip A. Ades;Vera Bittner

  • Resistance Exercise in Individuals With and Without Cardiovascular Disease: 2007 Update A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association Council on Clinical Cardiology and Council on Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Metabolism

    Mark A. Williams;William L. Haskell;Philip A. Ades;Ezra A. Amsterdam

  • Prediction of mortality and morbidity with a 6-minute walk test in patients with left ventricular dysfunction. SOLVD Investigators

    Vera Bittner;Debra H. Weiner;Salim Yusuf;William J. Rogers

  • Insights from the NHLBI-Sponsored Women's Ischemia Syndrome Evaluation (WISE) Study: Part II: gender differences in presentation, diagnosis, and outcome with regard to gender-based pathophysiology of atherosclerosis and macrovascular and microvascular coronary disease.

    C. Noel Bairey Merz;Leslee J. Shaw;Steven E. Reis;Vera Bittner

  • The 6-min Walk Test: A Quick Measure of Functional Status in Elderly Adults

    Paul L. Enright;Mary Ann McBurnie;Vera Bittner;Russell P. Tracy

  • Insights from the NHLBI-Sponsored Women's Ischemia Syndrome Evaluation (WISE) Study: Part I: gender differences in traditional and novel risk factors, symptom evaluation, and gender-optimized diagnostic strategies.

    Leslee J. Shaw;C. Noel Bairey Merz;Carl J. Pepine;Steven E. Reis

  • Effects of hormone replacement therapy and antioxidant Vitamin supplements on coronary atherosclerosis in postmenopausal women: A randomized controlled trial

    David D. Waters;Edwin L. Alderman;Judith Hsia;Barbara V. Howard

  • Referral, Enrollment, and Delivery of Cardiac Rehabilitation/Secondary Prevention Programs at Clinical Centers and Beyond A Presidential Advisory From the American Heart Association

    Gary J. Balady;Philip A. Ades;Vera A. Bittner;Barry A. Franklin

  • Cardiovascular Disease and Breast Cancer: Where These Entities Intersect: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association.

    Laxmi S. Mehta;Karol E. Watson;Ana Barac;Theresa M. Beckie

  • Population Approaches to Improve Diet, Physical Activity, and Smoking Habits: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association

    Dariush Mozaffarian;Ashkan Afshin;Neal L. Benowitz;Vera Bittner

  • Glycemic effects of postmenopausal hormone therapy: the Heart and Estrogen/progestin Replacement Study. A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial.

    Alka M. Kanaya;David Herrington;Eric Vittinghoff;Feng Lin

  • Effect of alirocumab, a monoclonal antibody to PCSK9, on long-term cardiovascular outcomes following acute coronary syndromes: Rationale and design of the ODYSSEY Outcomes trial

    Gregory G. Schwartz;Laurence Bessac;Lisa G. Berdan;Deepak L. Bhatt

  • Validity and reliability of the NYHA classes for measuring research outcomes in patients with cardiac disease.

    Jill A. Bennett;Barbara Riegel;Vera Bittner;Joyce Nichols

  • Postmenopausal Women with a History of Irregular Menses and Elevated Androgen Measurements at High Risk for Worsening Cardiovascular Event-Free Survival : Results from the National Institutes of Health-National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Sponsored Women's Ischemia Syndrome Evaluation

    Leslee J. Shaw;C. Noel Bairey Merz;Ricardo Azziz;Frank Z. Stanczyk

  • Glycemic effects of postmenopausal hormone therapy: the heart attack and estrogen/progestin replacement study. A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial☆

    A.M. Kanaya;D. Herrington;E. Vittinghoff

  • Exercise Standards for Testing and Training: A Scientific Statement From the American

    Jonathan Rhodes;Paul D. Thompson;Mark A. Williams;Lola A. Coke

Frequent Co-Authors

C. Noel Bairey Merz
C. Noel Bairey Merz Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Paul Muntner
Paul Muntner University of Alabama at Birmingham
Sheryl F. Kelsey
Sheryl F. Kelsey University of Pittsburgh
Shaun G. Goodman
Shaun G. Goodman University of Toronto
George Sopko
George Sopko National Institutes of Health
Carl J. Pepine
Carl J. Pepine University of Florida
Harvey D. White
Harvey D. White Auckland City Hospital
Deepak L. Bhatt
Deepak L. Bhatt Mount Sinai Hospital
Andreas M. Zeiher
Andreas M. Zeiher Goethe University Frankfurt
Rafael Diaz
Rafael Diaz University of Alberta

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