Dr Louisa Gnatiuc
Contact information
AWARDS
The World Heart Federation Salim Yusuf Emerging Leaders Programme 2020
The European Society of Cardiology Educational Grant 2017
Research groups
- Causal associations of body composition and disease-specific mortality in contrasting populations
 - A GWAS atlas of adiposity traits in Mexicans
 - Polygenic risk scores for prediction of cause-specific disease and mortality risk in Mexicans
 - Metabolic rate and risk of diabetes, cardiovascular and other diseases in different populations
 - An atlas of metabolomic risk factors for specific diseases and mortality in Mexicans
 - Risk scores for prediction of diabetes and its complications
 - Novel biomarkers and risk for co-mordbidities of adiposity and diabetes in the UK Biobank
 - Adiposity and risk of respiratory diseases
 - The relationship between COVID-19 and cardio-metabolic health risks
 - Biomarker signatures of lifestyle determinants for preventable cardio-metabolic diseases
 
Websites
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                            Mexico City Prospective Study
                        
                        
Cohort Study
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                            International Advisory Board
                        
                        
The Lancet Global Health
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                            Nucleus Member, Deputy Prevention Implementation Committee
                        
                        
European Society of Preventive Cardiology
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                            Module Lead and Lecturer in Epidemiology
                        
                        
University of Oxford
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                            Associate Editor
                        
                        
Global Heart Journal
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                            External Lecturer in Chronic Disease Epidemiology
                        
                        
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
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                            Honorary Research Associate
                        
                        
Imperial College London, NHLI
 
Louisa Gnatiuc Friedrichs
BA, DLSHTM, MSc, DPhil
Senior Epidemiologist
With experience in acute medicine, epidemiology and public health in Europe, Africa, Asia and South America, Louisa is passionate about population health. Trained in epidemiology and population health at the University of Oxford and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, her primary interests include conventional and genetic determinants of vasculo-metabolic diseases, and novel disease models. Her work focuses on the effects of adiposity, diabetes and hypertension on premature cardiometabolic mortality in the Mexico City Prospective Study, the Prospective Studies Collaboration and the UK Biobank.
Louisa is a member of the International Advisory Board for Lancet Global Health, a Nucleus Member of the European Society for Preventive Cardiology and an editor for the Global Heart Journal. She preserves a keen interest in teaching, research of under-studied populations where the burden of preventable vasculo-metabolic risk is increasing,and collaboration with multi-national research programs.
Her expertise comprises design, conduct and analysis of large multi-centric surveys, cohort studies, biobanks, and follow-up through surveillance and vital registries. Previous roles involved coordination of British, European and global epidemiological studies with Imperial College London and the Medical Research Council, advisory for the Department of Health and Pharma.
Outside work, she likes arts, photography and world cuisines.
Recent publications
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                A Mendelian randomization study of the effect of body mass index on 52 causes of death among 125 000 Mexican adults with admixed ancestry.
Journal article
Gnatiuc Friedrichs L. et al, (2025), Int J Epidemiol, 54
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                Prediabetes and risk of all-cause and cause-specific mortality: a prospective study of 114,062 adults in Mexico City.
Journal article
Fermín-Martínez CA. et al, (2025), J Clin Endocrinol Metab
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                Cognitive impairment at older ages among 8000 men and women living in Mexico City: a cross-sectional analyses of a prospective study.
Journal article
González-Carballo C. et al, (2024), BMC Public Health, 24
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                Alcohol and mortality in Mexico: prospective study of 150 000 adults.
Journal article
Trichia E. et al, (2024), Lancet Public Health, 9, e907 - e915
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                Blood Pressure, eGFR, and Kidney Mortality in Mexico: A Prospective Study of 150,000 Adults
Conference paper
Zhu D., (2024)
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                Author Correction: Genotyping, sequencing and analysis of 140,000 adults from Mexico City.
Journal article
Ziyatdinov A. et al, (2024), Nature, 626
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                Blood Pressure, eGFR, and Kidney Mortality in Mexico: A Prospective Study of 150,000 Adults
Journal article
Zhu D. et al, (2024), JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF NEPHROLOGY, 35
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                Polygenic prediction of coronary heart disease among 130,000 Mexican adults
Preprint
Liu T. et al, (2024)
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                Genotyping, sequencing and analysis of 140,000 adults from Mexico City
Journal article
TORRES J. et al, (2023), Nature
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                Genotyping, sequencing and analysis of 140,000 adults from Mexico City.
Journal article
Ziyatdinov A. et al, (2023), Nature, 622, 784 - 793
 
