Gordon D O Lowe

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1 C-reactive protein and other circulating markers of inflammation in the prediction of coronary heart disease. N Engl J Med 2004 15.30
2 C-reactive protein, fibrinogen, and cardiovascular disease prediction. N Engl J Med 2012 6.39
3 Plasma fibrinogen level and the risk of major cardiovascular diseases and nonvascular mortality: an individual participant meta-analysis. JAMA 2005 5.60
4 C-reactive protein and its role in metabolic syndrome: mendelian randomisation study. Lancet 2005 5.51
5 Aspirin for prevention of cardiovascular events in a general population screened for a low ankle brachial index: a randomized controlled trial. JAMA 2010 5.10
6 Long-term interleukin-6 levels and subsequent risk of coronary heart disease: two new prospective studies and a systematic review. PLoS Med 2008 4.34
7 C-reactive protein is an independent predictor of risk for the development of diabetes in the West of Scotland Coronary Prevention Study. Diabetes 2002 3.59
8 Physical activity and hemostatic and inflammatory variables in elderly men. Circulation 2002 2.75
9 Seven haemostatic gene polymorphisms in coronary disease: meta-analysis of 66,155 cases and 91,307 controls. Lancet 2006 2.72
10 C-reactive protein, interleukin-6, and soluble adhesion molecules as predictors of progressive peripheral atherosclerosis in the general population: Edinburgh Artery Study. Circulation 2005 2.53
11 Association of C-reactive protein with blood pressure and hypertension: life course confounding and mendelian randomization tests of causality. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol 2005 2.42
12 Associations of vitamin C status, fruit and vegetable intakes, and markers of inflammation and hemostasis. Am J Clin Nutr 2006 2.24
13 Associations between cigarette smoking, pipe/cigar smoking, and smoking cessation, and haemostatic and inflammatory markers for cardiovascular disease. Eur Heart J 2005 2.21
14 Lipoprotein(a) levels and risk of future coronary heart disease: large-scale prospective data. Arch Intern Med 2008 2.01
15 Inflammation, insulin resistance, and diabetes--Mendelian randomization using CRP haplotypes points upstream. PLoS Med 2008 1.95
16 Relative value of inflammatory, hemostatic, and rheological factors for incident myocardial infarction and stroke: the Edinburgh Artery Study. Circulation 2007 1.85
17 Hormone replacement therapy and risk of venous thromboembolism in postmenopausal women: systematic review and meta-analysis. BMJ 2008 1.78
18 Gender differences in the cross-sectional relationships between sleep duration and markers of inflammation: Whitehall II study. Sleep 2009 1.77
19 Adipokines and risk of type 2 diabetes in older men. Diabetes Care 2007 1.63
20 D-dimer predicts early clinical progression in ischemic stroke: confirmation using routine clinical assays. Stroke 2006 1.60
21 Adipocytokines and risk of stroke in older people: a nested case-control study. Int J Epidemiol 2008 1.59
22 Inflammatory cytokines and risk of coronary heart disease: new prospective study and updated meta-analysis. Eur Heart J 2013 1.53
23 Extent of regression dilution for established and novel coronary risk factors: results from the British Regional Heart Study. Eur J Cardiovasc Prev Rehabil 2004 1.47
24 Diurnal, seasonal, and blood-processing patterns in levels of circulating fibrinogen, fibrin D-dimer, C-reactive protein, tissue plasminogen activator, and von Willebrand factor in a 45-year-old population. Circulation 2007 1.47
25 Inflammatory, haemostatic, and rheological markers for incident peripheral arterial disease: Edinburgh Artery Study. Eur Heart J 2007 1.47
26 Cognitive decline and markers of inflammation and hemostasis: the Edinburgh Artery Study. J Am Geriatr Soc 2007 1.46
27 Association of novel genetic Loci with circulating fibrinogen levels: a genome-wide association study in 6 population-based cohorts. Circ Cardiovasc Genet 2009 1.41
28 Association between raised inflammatory markers and cognitive decline in elderly people with type 2 diabetes: the Edinburgh Type 2 Diabetes Study. Diabetes 2009 1.34
29 Plasma leptin: associations with metabolic, inflammatory and haemostatic risk factors for cardiovascular disease. Atherosclerosis 2006 1.29
30 Associations of fibrinogen and C-reactive protein with prevalent and incident coronary heart disease are attenuated by adjustment for confounding factors. British Women's Heart and Health Study. Thromb Haemost 2005 1.29
31 The association of C-reactive protein and CRP genotype with coronary heart disease: findings from five studies with 4,610 cases amongst 18,637 participants. PLoS One 2008 1.28
32 Guidelines on fibrinogen assays. Br J Haematol 2003 1.23
33 Associations of inflammatory and haemostatic biomarkers with poor outcome in acute ischaemic stroke. Cerebrovasc Dis 2009 1.21
34 Adult socioeconomic position, C-reactive protein and interleukin-6 in the Whitehall II prospective study. Eur J Epidemiol 2007 1.21
35 Associations of proinflammatory cytokines with the risk of recurrent stroke. Stroke 2008 1.17
36 Randomized controlled trial of homocysteine-lowering vitamin treatment in elderly patients with vascular disease. Am J Clin Nutr 2005 1.17
37 The metabolic syndrome and insulin resistance: relationship to haemostatic and inflammatory markers in older non-diabetic men. Atherosclerosis 2005 1.13
38 Interleukin-6 -174G>C polymorphism and risk of coronary heart disease in West of Scotland coronary prevention study (WOSCOPS). Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol 2002 1.12
39 Influence of socioeconomic status and job control on plasma fibrinogen responses to acute mental stress. Psychosom Med 2003 1.12
40 Endothelial dysfunction and inflammation in asymptomatic proteinuria. Kidney Int 2003 1.10
41 C-reactive protein: associations with haematological variables, cardiovascular risk factors and prevalent cardiovascular disease. Br J Haematol 2003 1.09
42 Associations of inflammatory and hemostatic variables with the risk of recurrent stroke. Stroke 2005 1.07
43 Peripheral levels of fibrinogen, C-reactive protein, and plasma viscosity predict future cognitive decline in individuals without dementia. Psychosom Med 2009 1.07
44 The associations of interleukin-6 (IL-6) and downstream inflammatory markers with risk of cardiovascular disease: the Caerphilly Study. Atherosclerosis 2009 1.07
45 Cardiovascular risk parameters in men with ankylosing spondylitis in comparison with non-inflammatory control subjects: relevance of systemic inflammation. Clin Sci (Lond) 2005 1.06
46 Genetic associations for activated partial thromboplastin time and prothrombin time, their gene expression profiles, and risk of coronary artery disease. Am J Hum Genet 2012 1.05
47 Renal function and cardiovascular mortality in elderly men: the role of inflammatory, procoagulant, and endothelial biomarkers. Eur Heart J 2006 1.05
48 Hemostatic function and progressing ischemic stroke: D-dimer predicts early clinical progression. Stroke 2004 1.05
49 Genetic predictors of fibrin D-dimer levels in healthy adults. Circulation 2011 1.05
50 Oral contraceptives, hormone replacement therapy, thrombophilias and risk of venous thromboembolism: a systematic review. The Thrombosis: Risk and Economic Assessment of Thrombophilia Screening (TREATS) Study. Thromb Haemost 2005 1.01
51 Association of the factor XII 46C>T polymorphism with risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) in the WOSCOPS study. Atherosclerosis 2002 0.99
52 Relationships of inflammatory and haemostatic markers with social class: results from a population-based study of older men. Atherosclerosis 2007 0.99
53 Interleukin 18 and coronary heart disease: prospective study and systematic review. Atherosclerosis 2011 0.98
54 Tissue plasminogen activator, von Willebrand factor, and risk of type 2 diabetes in older men. Diabetes Care 2008 0.97
55 Childhood intelligence and midlife inflammatory and hemostatic biomarkers: the National Child Development Study (1958) cohort. Health Psychol 2011 0.95
56 Hemostatic factors, inflammatory markers, and progressive peripheral atherosclerosis: the Edinburgh Artery Study. Am J Epidemiol 2005 0.94
57 Association between plasma IL-6, the IL6 -174G>C gene variant and the metabolic syndrome in type 2 diabetes mellitus. Mol Genet Metab 2006 0.92
58 Prolonged elevations in haemostatic and rheological responses following psychological stress in low socioeconomic status men and women. Thromb Haemost 2003 0.92
59 Do inflammatory biomarkers add to the discrimination of cardiovascular disease after allowing for social deprivation? Results from a 10-year cohort study in Glasgow, Scotland. Eur Heart J 2009 0.90
60 Distributions of C-reactive protein measured by high-sensitivity assays in apparently healthy men and women from different populations in Europe. Clin Chem 2003 0.90
61 Genetic variants associated with altered plasma levels of C-reactive protein are not associated with late-life cognitive ability in four Scottish samples. Behav Genet 2009 0.90
62 Reduced lung function in patients with abdominal aortic aneurysm is associated with activation of inflammation and hemostasis, not smoking or cardiovascular disease. J Vasc Surg 2006 0.89
63 Metabolic syndrome, haemostatic and inflammatory markers, cerebrovascular and peripheral arterial disease: The Edinburgh Artery Study. Atherosclerosis 2008 0.88
64 The association between homocysteine and myocardial infarction is independent of age, sex, blood pressure, cholesterol, smoking and markers of inflammation: the Glasgow Myocardial Infarction Study. Blood Coagul Fibrinolysis 2006 0.88
65 Activation of hemostasis and decline in cognitive function in older people. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol 2009 0.87
66 Inflammation and not cardiovascular risk factors is associated with short leukocyte telomere length in 13- to 16-year-old adolescents. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol 2012 0.86
67 Does sticky blood predict a sticky end? Associations of blood viscosity, haematocrit and fibrinogen with mortality in the West of Scotland. Br J Haematol 2003 0.85
68 Circulating TNFalpha levels in older men and women do not show independent prospective relations with MI or stroke. Atherosclerosis 2008 0.85
69 Higher IL-6 levels but not IL6 -174G>C or -572G>C genotype are associated with post-operative complication following coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery. Atherosclerosis 2008 0.84
70 The effects of different alcoholic drinks on lipids, insulin and haemostatic and inflammatory markers in older men. Thromb Haemost 2003 0.83
71 A specific elevation in tissue plasminogen activator antigen in women with polycystic ovarian syndrome. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2002 0.83
72 Body fat distribution in relation to smoking and exogenous hormones in British women. Clin Endocrinol (Oxf) 2012 0.82
73 A gene-centric analysis of activated partial thromboplastin time and activated protein C resistance using the HumanCVD focused genotyping array. Eur J Hum Genet 2012 0.82
74 Vascular dysfunction and alteration of novel and classic cardiovascular risk factors in mothers of growth restricted offspring. Atherosclerosis 2008 0.81
75 Genetic associations between fibrinogen and cognitive performance in three Scottish cohorts. Behav Genet 2011 0.81
76 Does fibrinogen add to prediction of cardiovascular disease? Results from the Scottish Heart Health Extended Cohort Study. Br J Haematol 2009 0.81
77 Increased C-reactive protein levels in overweight and obese women taking exogenous hormones: the United Kingdom Women's Heart Study (UKWHS). Clin Endocrinol (Oxf) 2009 0.80
78 Angina and intermittent claudication in 7403 participants of the 2003 Scottish Health Survey: impact on general and mental health, quality of life and five-year mortality. Int J Cardiol 2012 0.79
79 Relationship of the platelet glycoprotein PlA and fibrinogen T/G+1689 polymorphisms with peripheral arterial disease and ischaemic heart disease. Thromb Res 2003 0.79
80 Tissue plasminogen activator antigen predicts medium-term left ventricular end-systolic volume after acute myocardial infarction. J Thromb Thrombolysis 2010 0.78
81 Incident venous thromboembolic events in the Prospective Study of Pravastatin in the Elderly at Risk (PROSPER). BMC Geriatr 2011 0.78
82 Prospective study of IL-18 and risk of MI and stroke in men and women aged 60-79 years: a nested case-control study. Cytokine 2012 0.78
83 Direct comparisons of three alternative plasma fibrinogen assays with the von Clauss assay in prediction of cardiovascular disease and all-causes mortality: the Scottish Heart Health Extended Cohort. Br J Haematol 2013 0.77
84 Low-intensity warfarin reduces thrombin generation and fibrin turnover, but not low-grade inflammation, in men at risk of myocardial infarction. Br J Haematol 2004 0.77
85 Indices of obesity and cardiovascular risk factors in British women. Obes Facts 2008 0.77
86 Fibrinogen assays for cardiovascular risk assessment. Clin Chem 2010 0.77
87 Successful elimination of factor VIII inhibitor using cyclosporin A. Br J Haematol 2003 0.76
88 Resonance-thrombography indices of the haemostatic process in relation to risk of incident coronary heart disease: 9 years follow-up in the Caerphilly Prospective Heart Disease Study. Br J Haematol 2004 0.76
89 Plasma Biomarkers of Inflammation, Endothelial Function and Hemostasis in Cerebral Small Vessel Disease. Cerebrovasc Dis 2015 0.76
90 Britain's failure to tackle research misconduct: UK bodies are now working together to set up panel on misconduct. BMJ 2004 0.75
91 Glucocorticoid treatment and impaired mood, memory and metabolism in people with diabetes: the Edinburgh Type 2 Diabetes Study. Eur J Endocrinol 2012 0.75
92 The association between blood coagulation activity and lung function: a population-based study. PLoS One 2010 0.75
93 Our inability to predict thromboembolic events after prosthetic valve surgery. J Heart Valve Dis 2006 0.75
94 Venous thrombosis prevention - more than just guidelines. Br J Haematol 2010 0.75
95 Genome-wide association studies identify genetic loci for low von Willebrand factor levels. Eur J Hum Genet 2016 0.75
96 On the route to combined evidence from OC and HRT/ERT. Eur J Contracept Reprod Health Care 2002 0.75