Yuan Lu, ScD

• Erica Spatz
• Gail D'Onofrio
• Harlan Krumholz
• Hongyu Zhao
• Judith Lichtman
• Mary Geda
• Rachel Dreyer

Cardiovascular Diseases; Chronic Disease

Epidemiology Methods; Global Health; Nutrition; Obesity; Implementation Science

• Prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control of hypertension in China: data from 1·7 million adults in a population-based screening study (China PEACE Million Persons Project).Lu J, Lu Y, Wang X, Li X, Linderman GC, Wu C, Cheng X, Mu L, Zhang H, Liu J, Su M, Zhao H, Spatz ES, Spertus JA, Masoudi FA, Krumholz HM, Jiang L. Prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control of hypertension in China: data from 1·7 million adults in a population-based screening study (China PEACE Million Persons Project). Lancet 2017, 390: 2549-2558. PMID: 29102084, DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(17)32478-9.
• Sex Differences in Inflammatory Markers and Health Status Among Young Adults With Acute Myocardial Infarction: Results From the VIRGO (Variation in Recovery: Role of Gender on Outcomes of Young Acute Myocardial Infarction Patients) Study.Lu Y, Zhou S, Dreyer RP, Spatz ES, Geda M, Lorenze NP, D'Onofrio G, Lichtman JH, Spertus JA, Ridker PM, Krumholz HM. Sex Differences in Inflammatory Markers and Health Status Among Young Adults With Acute Myocardial Infarction: Results From the VIRGO (Variation in Recovery: Role of Gender on Outcomes of Young Acute Myocardial Infarction Patients) Study. Circulation. Cardiovascular Quality And Outcomes 2017, 10: e003470. PMID: 28228461, PMCID: PMC5459381, DOI: 10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.116.003470.
• Sex differences in lipid profiles and treatment utilization among young adults with acute myocardial infarction: Results from the VIRGO study.Lu Y, Zhou S, Dreyer RP, Caulfield M, Spatz ES, Geda M, Lorenze NP, Herbert P, D'Onofrio G, Jackson EA, Lichtman JH, Bueno H, Spertus JA, Krumholz HM. Sex differences in lipid profiles and treatment utilization among young adults with acute myocardial infarction: Results from the VIRGO study. American Heart Journal 2017, 183: 74-84. PMID: 27979045, PMCID: PMC5459396, DOI: 10.1016/j.ahj.2016.09.012.
• Sick Populations and Sick Subpopulations: Reducing Disparities in Cardiovascular Disease Between Blacks and Whites in the United States.Lu Y, Ezzati M, Rimm EB, Hajifathalian K, Ueda P, Danaei G. Sick Populations and Sick Subpopulations: Reducing Disparities in Cardiovascular Disease Between Blacks and Whites in the United States. Circulation 2016, 134: 472-85. PMID: 27324491, PMCID: PMC5001154, DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.115.018102.
• Impact of diabetes definition on global surveillance of diabetes prevalence and diagnosis: pooled analysis of 96 population-based studies with 330,000 participants.Danaei G*, Fahimi S*, Lu Y*, Zhou B*, Hajifathalian K, Di Cesare M, Lo WC, Cowan MJ, Shaw JE, Bentham J, Lin JK, Bixby H, Magliano D, Bovet P, Miranda J, Khang YH, Stevens GA, Riley LM, Ali MK, Ezzati M and NCD Risk Factor Collaboration. Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology. 2015 Jun 19. pii: S2213-8587(15)00129-1. (* equal contribution; listed alphabetically).
• Metabolic mediators of the effects of body-mass index, overweight, and obesity on coronary heart disease and stroke: a pooled analysis of 97 prospective cohorts with 1·8 million participants.Lu Y, Hajifathalian K, Ezzati M, Woodward M, Rimm EB, Danaei G. Metabolic mediators of the effects of body-mass index, overweight, and obesity on coronary heart disease and stroke: a pooled analysis of 97 prospective cohorts with 1·8 million participants. Lancet 2014, 383: 970-83. PMID: 24269108, PMCID: PMC3959199, DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(13)61836-X.
• Mediators of the effect of body mass index on coronary heart disease: decomposing direct and indirect effects.Lu Y, Hajifathalian K, Rimm EB, Ezzati M, Danaei G. Mediators of the effect of body mass index on coronary heart disease: decomposing direct and indirect effects. Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) 2015, 26: 153-62. PMID: 25643095, DOI: 10.1097/EDE.0000000000000234.
• A novel risk score to predict cardiovascular disease risk in national populations (Globorisk): a pooled analysis of prospective cohorts and health examination surveys.Hajifathalian K, Ueda P, Lu Y, Woodward M, Ahmadvand A, Aguilar-Salinas CA, Azizi F, Cifkova R, Di Cesare M, Eriksen L, Farzadfar F, Ikeda N, Khalili D, Khang YH, Lanska V, León-Muñoz L, Magliano D, Msyamboza KP, Oh K, Rodríguez-Artalejo F, Rojas-Martinez R, Shaw JE, Stevens GA, Tolstrup J, Zhou B, Salomon JA, Ezzati M, Danaei G. A novel risk score to predict cardiovascular disease risk in national populations (Globorisk): a pooled analysis of prospective cohorts and health examination surveys. The Lancet. Diabetes & Endocrinology 2015, 3: 339-55. PMID: 25819778, DOI: 10.1016/S2213-8587(15)00081-9.
• Cardiovascular disease, chronic kidney disease, and diabetes mortality burden of cardiometabolic risk factors from 1980 to 2010: a comparative risk assessment.Danaei G, Lu Y, Singh GM, Carnahan E, Stevens GA, Cowan MJ, Farzadfar F, Lin JK, Finucane MM, Rao M, Khang YH, Riley LM, Mozaffarian D, Lim SS, Ezzati M and the Global Burden of Metabolic Risk Factors of Chronic Diseases Collaborating Group. Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology. 2014; 2(8): 634-647
• National, regional, and global trends in fasting plasma glucose and diabetes prevalence since 1980: systematic analysis of health examination surveys and epidemiological studies with 370 country-years and 2·7 million participants.Danaei G, Finucane MM, Lu Y, Singh GM, Cowan MJ, Paciorek CJ, Lin JK, Farzadfar F, Khang YH, Stevens GA, Rao M, Ali MK, Riley LM, Robinson CA, Ezzati M. National, regional, and global trends in fasting plasma glucose and diabetes prevalence since 1980: systematic analysis of health examination surveys and epidemiological studies with 370 country-years and 2·7 million participants. Lancet 2011, 378: 31-40. PMID: 21705069, DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(11)60679-X.
• National, regional, and global trends in body-mass index since 1980: systematic analysis of health examination surveys and epidemiological studies with 960 country-years and 9·1 million participants.Finucane MM, Stevens GA, Cowan MJ, Danaei G, Lin JK, Paciorek CJ, Singh GM, Gutierrez HR, Lu Y, Bahalim AN, Farzadfar F, Riley LM, Ezzati M. National, regional, and global trends in body-mass index since 1980: systematic analysis of health examination surveys and epidemiological studies with 960 country-years and 9·1 million participants. Lancet 2011, 377: 557-67. PMID: 21295846, PMCID: PMC4472365, DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(10)62037-5.