Louisa Gnatiuc

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 improving health at population level.

After graduating with an MSc in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, she completed courses in epidemiology with Harvard and Johns Hopkins, and co-ordinated British, European and Global epidemiological studies with Imperial College London and the Medical Research Council. Her role involved design, conduct and analysis of large multi-centre standardised surveys, cohort studies and biobanks, follow-up through surveillance and vital registries, advisory for the Department of Health and Pharma, and reviewing for scientific journals.

The current work focuses on the effects of adiposity and related preventable risk factors for premature mortality, such as diabetes and hypertension in the Mexico City Prospective Study and the Prospective Studies Collaboration .As she is particularly interested in producing evidence from countries where the burden of vasculo-metabolic risk is increasing, she continues to collaborate in several multi-national surveys and cohorts, including 40 world-wide sites from the BOLD study. Other interests include novel vasculo-metabolic risk factors and disease models, translation of research findings into public health policy, and teaching.

Outside work, she likes arts, photography and world cuisines.

Key publications

Sex-specific relevance of diabetes to occlusive vascular and other mortality: a collaborative meta-analysis of individual data from 980 793 adults from 68 prospective studies.
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Prospective Studies Collaboration and Asia Pacific Cohort Studies Collaboration None., (2018), Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol, 6, 538 - 546
Diabetes and Cause-Specific Mortality in Mexico City.
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Alegre-Díaz J. et al, (2016), N Engl J Med, 375, 1961 - 1971
General and Abdominal Adiposity and Mortality in Mexico City: A Prospective Study of 150 000 Adults.
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Gnatiuc L. et al, (2019), Ann Intern Med, 171, 397 - 405
Effect of diabetes duration and glycaemic control on 14-year cause-specific mortality in Mexican adults: a blood-based prospective cohort study.
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Herrington WG. et al, (2018), Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol, 6, 455 - 463
Changes in the Diagnosis and Management of Diabetes in Mexico City Between 1998-2004 and 2015-2019.
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Aguilar-Ramirez D. et al, (2021), Diabetes Care
Association of Blood Pressure With Cause-Specific Mortality in Mexican Adults.
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Tapia-Conyer R. et al, (2020), JAMA Netw Open, 3
Low-intensity daily smoking and cause-specific mortality in Mexico: prospective study of 150 000 adults.
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Thomson B. et al, (2021), Int J Epidemiol

Recent publications

Association of kidney function with NMR-quantified lipids, lipoproteins, and metabolic measures in Mexican adults.
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Aguilar-Ramirez D. et al, (2021), J Clin Endocrinol Metab
Chronic airflow obstruction and ambient particulate air pollution
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Amaral AFS. et al, (2021), Thorax
Abdominal and gluteo-femoral markers of adiposity and risk of vascular-metabolic mortality in a prospective study of 150 000 Mexican adults.
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Gnatiuc L. et al, (2021), Eur J Prev Cardiol
Low-intensity daily smoking and cause-specific mortality in Mexico: prospective study of 150 000 adults.
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Thomson B. et al, (2021), Int J Epidemiol
Changes in the Diagnosis and Management of Diabetes in Mexico City Between 1998-2004 and 2015-2019.
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Aguilar-Ramirez D. et al, (2021), Diabetes Care

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