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Nicholas D. Smith

- Verified email at lclark.edu - Cited by 5248

Nicholas Smith

- Verified email at my.westminster.ac.uk - Cited by 2746

Health outcomes associated with antihypertensive therapies used as first-line agents: a systematic review and meta-analysis

BM Psaty, NL Smith, DS Siscovick, TD Koepsell… - Jama, 1997 - jamanetwork.com
Objective. —To review the scientific evidence concerning the safety and efficacy of various
antihypertensive therapies used as first-line agents and evaluated in terms of major disease …

[HTML][HTML] Sequencing of 53,831 diverse genomes from the NHLBI TOPMed Program

…, WH Sheu, MB Shoemaker, NL Smith, JA Smith… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) programme seeks to elucidate the genetic
architecture and biology of heart, lung, blood and sleep disorders, with the ultimate goal of …

The role of emotion in global warming policy support and opposition

N Smith, A Leiserowitz - Risk Analysis, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Prior research has found that affect and affective imagery strongly influence public support
for global warming. This article extends this literature by exploring the separate influence of …

Multiancestry genome-wide association study of 520,000 subjects identifies 32 loci associated with stroke and stroke subtypes

…, JLM Björkegren, V Codoni, M Civelek, NL Smith… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Stroke has multiple etiologies, but the underlying genes and pathways are largely unknown.
We conducted a multiancestry genome-wide-association meta-analysis in 521,612 …

The risk of myocardial infarction associated with antihypertensive drug therapies

…, NS Weiss, FR Rosendaal, RN Lemaitre, NL Smith… - Jama, 1995 - jamanetwork.com
Objective. —To assess the association between first myocardial infarction and the use of
antihypertensive agents. Design and Setting. —We conducted a population-based case-control …

[PDF][PDF] A new statistical method for haplotype reconstruction from population data

M Stephens, NJ Smith, P Donnelly - The American Journal of Human …, 2001 - cell.com
Current routine genotyping methods typically do not provide haplotype information, which is
essential for many analyses of fine-scale molecular-genetics data. Haplotypes can be …

Genetic variants in novel pathways influence blood pressure and cardiovascular disease risk

…, KK Lohman, ME Rudock, SR Heckbert, NL Smith… - Nature, 2011 - nature.com
Blood pressure is a heritable trait 1 influenced by several biological pathways and responsive
to environmental stimuli. Over one billion people worldwide have hypertension (≥140 mm …

Inherited causes of clonal haematopoiesis in 97,691 whole genomes

…, EG Burchard, SLR Kardia, J He, RC Kaplan, NL Smith… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Age is the dominant risk factor for most chronic human diseases, but the mechanisms
through which ageing confers this risk are largely unknown 1 . The age-related acquisition of …

[HTML][HTML] Stroke genetics informs drug discovery and risk prediction across ancestries

…, CL Satizabal, CO Schmidt, A Shimizu, NL Smith… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Previous genome-wide association studies (GWASs) of stroke — the second leading cause
of death worldwide — were conducted predominantly in populations of European ancestry 1 …

ARN-509: a novel antiandrogen for prostate cancer treatment

…, HI Scher, P Smith-Jones, M Klang, ND Smith… - Cancer research, 2012 - AACR
Continued reliance on the androgen receptor (AR) is now understood as a core mechanism
in castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC), the most advanced form of this disease. …