DrAbbasDehghan

Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health

Reader in Cardiometabolic Disease Epidemiology

Contact

+44 (0)20 7594 3347a.dehghan CV

Location

157Norfolk PlaceSt Mary's Campus

Summary

Abbas Dehghan MD PhD FESCis a medical doctor and an epidemiologist. He studied Epidemiology at Netherlands Institute for Health Sciences (NIHES) and worked with the Rotterdam Study at the department of epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, the Netherlands for more than 10 years. In 2016, he joined the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Imperial College London as a reader in cardiometabolic disorders.

Dr Dehghan is a member of the steering committee of the Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology (CHARGE) Consortium and has led or been involved in many genome-wide association (GWAS) studies. He has been co-PI of COMBI-BIO, an FP7 EU funded project on the metabolomics of atherosclerosis.

Dr Dehghan is working on the genetics of omics, in particular metabolomics, and applying Mendelian Randomisation approach to investigate causal determinants of complex traits and diseases including cardiometabolic disorders, dementia and cancers.

Since January 2020, Dr Dehghan is the director of postgraduate research at the school of public health.

Publications

Journals

Portilla-Fernández E, Hwang S-J, Wilson R, et al.Portilla-Fernández E, Hwang S-J, Wilson R, Maddock J, Hill WD, Teumer A, Mishra PP, Brody JA, Joehanes R, Ligthart S, Ghanbari M, Kavousi M, Roks AJM, Danser AHJ, Levy D, Peters A, Ghasemi S, Schminke U, Dörr M, Grabe HJ, Lehtimäki T, Kähönen M, Hurme MA, Bartz TM, Sotoodehnia N, Bis JC, Thiery J, Koenig W, Ong KK, Bell JT, Meisinger C, Wardlaw JM, Starr JM, Seissler J, Then C, Rathmann W, Ikram MA, Psaty BM, Raitakari OT, Völzke H, Deary IJ, Wong A, Waldenberger M, O'Donnell CJ, Dehghan A close, 2021, Meta-analysis of epigenome-wide association studies of carotid intima-media thickness., Eur J Epidemiol

Brahimaj A, Ahmadizar F, Vernooij MW, et al.Brahimaj A, Ahmadizar F, Vernooij MW, Ikram MK, Ikram MA, van Walsum T, Dehghan A, Franco OH, Bos D, Kavousi M close, 2021, Epicardial fat volume and the risk of cardiometabolic diseases among women and men from the general population, European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, ISSN:2047-4873

Gill D, Cameron AC, Burgess S, et al.Gill D, Cameron AC, Burgess S, Li X, Doherty DJ, Karhunen V, Abdul-Rahim AH, Taylor-Rowan M, Zuber V, Tsao PS, Klarin D, VA Million Veteran Program, Evangelou E, Elliott P, Damrauer SM, Quinn TJ, Dehghan A, Theodoratou E, Dawson J, Tzoulaki I close, 2021, Urate, blood pressure and cardiovascular disease: evidence from Mendelian randomization and meta-analysis of clinical trials, Hypertension, Vol:77, ISSN:0194-911X, Pages:383-392

Maners J, Gill D, Pankratz N, et al.Maners J, Gill D, Pankratz N, Laffan MA, Wolberg AS, de Maat MPM, Ligthart S, Tang W, Ward-Caviness CK, Fomage M, Debette S, Dichgans M, McKnight B, Boerwinkle E, Smith NL, Morrison AC, Dehghan A, de Vries PS close, 2020, A Mendelian randomization of γ′ and total fibrinogen levels in relation to venous thromboembolism and ischemic stroke, Blood, Vol:136, ISSN:0006-4971, Pages:3062-3069

Kolbeinsson A, Filippi S, Panagakis I, et al.Kolbeinsson A, Filippi S, Panagakis I, Matthews P, Elliott P, Dehghan A, Tzoulaki I close, 2020, Accelerated MRI-predicted brain ageing and its associations with cardiometabolic and brain disorders, Scientific Reports, Vol:10, ISSN:2045-2322

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