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, (2015), 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), Respiratory Medicine, 109, 1569 - 1575

Recent publications

Effect of diabetes duration and glycaemic control on 14-year cause-specific mortality in Mexican adults: a blood-based prospective cohort study.
Journal article

Herrington WG. et al, (2018), Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol, 6, 455 - 463
Sex-specific relevance of diabetes to occlusive vascular and other mortality: Meta-analysis of individual data from 68 prospective studies with 77,000 deaths among 1 million adults
Journal article

Lewington S. et al, (2018), The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology
Prevalence and burden of chronic bronchitis symptoms: results from the BOLD study
Journal article

Meja F. et al, (2017), European Respiratory Journal
Altitude and COPD prevalence: analysis of the PREPOCOL-PLATINO-BOLD-EPI-SCAN study
Journal article

Horner A. et al, (2017), Respir Res
Diabetes and premature mortality in Mexico City: Blood-based prospective study of 15,000 Mexican adults with 12 years’ mortality follow-up
Conference paper

Herrington W. et al, (2017), None

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