Professor Robert Clarke
Websites
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Faculty of Public Health Medicine, Royal College of Physicians of Ireland
External Examiner in Epidemiology
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Swedish Cardiopulmonary Bioimage Study (SCAPIS)
Scientific Advisory Board
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Irish Longitudinal Study on Aging (TILDA)
Scientific Advisory Board
Robert Clarke
MD, FRCP, FFPH, FFPHI, MSc, DCH
Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health Medicine
- Clinical Trial Service Unit and Epidemiological Studies Unit
Robert Clarke is a Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health Medicine at the Clinical Trial Service Unit (CTSU), Nuffield Department of Population Health (NDPH), University of Oxford, Honorary Consultant in Public Health Medicine and Scientific Director of the MSc course in Global Health Science and Epidemiology at the University of Oxford. He qualified in clinical medicine in Ireland and worked for 5 years in internal medicine and 4 years in cardiology. After 2 years in clinical pharmacology at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA, he joined CTSU in 1991 and specialised in Cardiovascular Epidemiology.
His main research interests are to understand the importance of classical and novel risk factors for cardiovascular diseases. He worked on analyses of observational studies and trials in the UK and meta-analyses of international consortia of observational studies, genome-wide association studies and randomised trials for heart disease and stroke. Over the last decade, his research work has focussed on understanding the causes of stroke and heart disease (ischaemic heart disease and heart failure) in the China Kadoorie Biobank. His research work in CKB includes studies of the diagnostic accuracy, prognosis, treatment, risk prediction and evaluation of genetic and plasma biomarkers for stroke types and ischaemic heart disease and heart failure in CKB and related studies in NDPH and international consortia.
He is a member of the Strategic Oversight Committee for NDPH, the International Steering Committee of CKB, Research Strategy and Management Committee of CKB and Co-chair of International Research Management Committee of CKB.
Recent publications
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Sleep duration and risk of stroke and coronary heart disease: a 9-year community-based prospective study of 0.5 million Chinese adults.
Journal article
Chen Y. et al, (2023), BMC Neurol, 23
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Denture use and Risk for Cardiometabolic Disease: Observational and Mendelian Randomization analyses.
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Liu Y. et al, (2023), Eur J Prev Cardiol
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Conventional and genetic associations of adiposity with 1463 proteins in relatively lean Chinese adults.
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Yao P. et al, (2023), Eur J Epidemiol
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Associations of polygenic risk scores with risks of stroke and its subtypes in Chinese
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CHEN Z. et al, (2023), Stroke and Vascular Neurology
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Detection rates of asymptomatic carotid artery stenosis and atrial fibrillation by selective screening of patients without cardiovascular disease.
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Poorthuis MHF. et al, (2023), Int J Cardiol