Professor Sarah Parish
Sarah Parish
BSc, MSc, DPhil
Emeritus Professor of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology
Sarah Parish studied Mathematics at Bristol and Oxford Universities and in 1978 joined the unit which became the Clinical Trial Service Unit & Epidemiological Studies Unit (CTSU).
She has played a major role as a statistician in the establishment, conduct and interpretation of CTSU’s series of ground-breaking large-scale randomised trials in the treatment and prevention of cardiovascular disease.
Sarah was also active in developing large-scale blood-based observational studies with extensive biomarker panels and genotyping.
As the Director of Statistics in Vascular Trials and Genetic Epidemiology, she leads statistical teams engaged in a spectrum of complimentary research.
Sarah's particular interests include: identifying genetic risk factors for the side-effects of common cardiovascular treatments; investigating causality in relation to factors such as adiposity and dementia that are responsible for major burdens of disease, using the large UK and China Kadoorie biobanks.
Recent publications
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Balancing the risk of major bleeding against vascular disease risk in people without atherosclerotic disease.
Journal article
Hammami I. et al, (2025), Heart
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Effects of aspirin and omega-3 fatty acids on age-related macular degeneration in ASCEND-Eye: a randomised placebo-controlled trial in a population with diabetes.
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Sammons E. et al, (2025), BMJ Open, 15
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Role of primary and secondary care data in atrial fibrillation ascertainment: impact on risk factor associations, patient management, and mortality in UK Biobank.
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Camm CF. et al, (2025), Europace, 27
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Effects of aspirin and omega-3 fatty acids on composite and subdomain scores from the NEI-VFQ-25 questionnaire: the ASCEND-Eye randomized controlled trial.
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Sammons EL. et al, (2024), BMC Ophthalmol, 24
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Conventional and genetic associations of BMI with major vascular and non-vascular disease incidence and mortality in a relatively lean Chinese population: U-shaped relationship revisited.
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Iona A. et al, (2024), Int J Epidemiol, 53