Louisa Gnatiuc

BA, DLSHTM, MSc

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

Diabetes and Cause-Specific Mortality in Mexico City.
Journal article

Alegre-Díaz J. et al, (2016), N Engl J Med, 375, 1961 - 1971
Diabetes and cause-specific mortality: evidence from 55 000 deaths in 700 000 adults in 44 studies from the Prospective Studies Collaboration
Conference paper

Gnatiuc L. et al, (2015), Diabetologia (2015) 58: 1., 58, S4 - S4
Adiposity and Blood Pressure in 110 000 Mexican Adults.
Journal article

Gnatiuc L. et al, (2017), Hypertension, 69, 608 - 614
Prevalence, treatment and control of hypertension in middle-aged Mexican adults
Conference paper

Gnatiuc L. et al, (2016), Eur Heart J (2015) 36 (suppl 1): 1229-1310, 36, 1185 - 1185
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease mortality and prevalence: the associations with smoking and poverty--a BOLD analysis.
Journal article

Burney P. et al, (2014), Thorax, 69, 465 - 473
Association of pulse wave velocity with total lung capacity: A cross-sectional analysis of the BOLD London study.
Journal article

Amaral AFS. et al, (2015), Respir Med, 109, 1569 - 1575

Recent publications

Association of blood pressure with cause-specific mortality in Mexican adults
Journal article

GNATIUC L. et al, (2020), JAMA Network Open
Body composition and mortality from vascular or metabolic causes among 150,000 participants in the Mexico City Prospective Study
Conference paper

Gnatiuc L. et al, (2019), EUROPEAN HEART JOURNAL, 40, 2412 - 2412
General and Abdominal Adiposity and Mortality in Mexico City: A Prospective Study of 150 000 Adults.
Journal article

Gnatiuc L. et al, (2019), Ann Intern Med, 171, 397 - 405
Bronchodilator reversibility in asthma and COPD: Findings from three large population studies.
Journal article

Janson C. et al, (2019), Eur Respir J
Overdiagnosis of COPD in subjects with unobstructed spirometry: a BOLD analysis
Journal article

Benedikdtsdottir B. et al, (2019), Chest, 156, 277–288 - 277–288

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