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Background: Angela received her BSc (Hons) in Mathematics and Statistics in 1998 and subsequently completed her doctorate on the subject of joint modeling longitudinal and time-to-event data with Profs Peter Diggle and Robin Henderson from the University of Lancaster in 2001. She carried out post-doctoral research with Dr Ian White at the MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge and was appointed in 2006 to University Lecturer in Biostatistics in the Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Cambridge. She now holds a University Readership (Associate Professor) in Health Data Science (promoted in 2019).

In Cambridge, Angela is co-Leader of the Population and Quantitative Science theme of the NIHR Cambridge BRC; programme leader in the NIHR Blood and Transplant Research Unit in Donor Health; and Director of Biostatistics at the BHF Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit.

In 2018 she was competitively elected as a Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Since the mid 2020, she has led the multi-institutional methodology team for the “CVD-COVID-UK consortium”, investigating links between Covid-19 and cardiovascular diseases through analysis of national datasets on 67M individuals (4Billion data points). She is co-Leader of the Data-Analysis Work-package in BigData@Heart, an EU Innovative Medicines Initiative.


Research interests: Angela’s research interests are centered on the development and application of biostatistical methods for advancing epidemiological and medical research. She has focused on developing statistical methodology for handling measurement error, using repeated measures of risk factors, missing data problems, multiple imputation, risk prediction and meta-analysis. She has published over 120 papers, attracting over 20,000 citations (h-index ~50). She has developed statistical methods and led analyses for major population resources to advance the study of CVD, including analyses of the 2.5 million-participant Emerging Risk Factors Collaboration and EPIC-CVD (the world’s largest genomic case-cohort study of incident CVD).

Research Training: Angela was academic director of the MPhil in Epidemiology (2007-2016) and continues to provide academic leadership to the MPhil courses as a member of the Management, Admissions and Examinations committees. She lectures on a wide range of epidemiology and biostatistics subjects in undergraduate and postgraduate courses at the University of Cambridge. She led successful funding awards from the MRC Advanced Course Masters Award for 18 one-year studentships for MPhil in Epidemiology and MPhil in Public Health 2008-2014. She has supervised >30 MPhil students and 15 PhD students.

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Employment (5)

University of Cambridge: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, GB

2019-10-01 to present | Reader in Health Data Science (Department of Public Health and Primary Care)
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University of Cambridge Darwin College: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, GB

2016 to present | Graduate College Tutor and Fellow
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University of Cambridge: Cambridge, GB

2016 to 2019 | Senior Lecturer in Biostatistics (Department of Public Health and Primary Care)
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University of Cambridge: Cambridge, GB

2006 to 2016 | Lecturer in Biostatistics (Department of Public Health and Primary Care)
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MRC Biostatistics Unit: Cambridge, GB

2001 to 2006 | Research Scientist
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Education and qualifications (2)

University of Lancaster: Lancaster , GB

1998 to 2001 | PhD / Medical Statistics (Medical Statistics)
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Lancaster University: Lancaster, Lancashire, GB

1995 to 1998 | MSc, first class honours (Mathematics and Statistics)
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Professional activities (7)

BHF Data Science Centre : NA, GB

2020 to present | Co-lead of Methodology group (CVD-COVID-UK)
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The Alan Turing Institute: London, GB

2018 to present | Elected Turing Fellow
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Cambridge Site of Health Data Research UK: Cambridge, GB

2018 to present | Co-Lead for Training
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British Region International Biometrics Society: NA, GB

2018 to present | Nominated Committee Member
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NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre: Cambridge, GB

2017 to present | Theme co-Leader (Population and Quantitative Science Theme)
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NIHR Blood Transfusion Research Unit in Donor Health and Genomics: Cambridge, GB

2017 to present | Programme Leader for “Stratified Donation”
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EU Innovative Medicines Initiative BigData@Heart: NA, GB

2017 to present | Data-Analysis Work Package co-leader
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Works (50 of 262)

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Contemporary epidemiology of hospitalised heart failure with reduced versus preserved ejection fraction in England: a retrospective, cohort study of whole-population electronic health records.

The Lancet. Public health
2024-11 | Journal article
Contributors: Fletcher RA; Rockenschaub P; Neuen BL; Walter IJ; Conrad N; Mizani MA; Bolton T; Lawson CA; Tomlinson C; Logothetis SB et al.
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Angela Wood via Europe PubMed Central

COVID-19 and Mental Illnesses in Vaccinated and Unvaccinated People.

JAMA psychiatry
2024-11 | Journal article
Contributors: Walker VM; Patalay P; Cuitun Coronado JI; Denholm R; Forbes H; Stafford J; Moltrecht B; Palmer T; Walker A; Thompson EJ et al.
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Angela Wood via Europe PubMed Central

European Society of Cardiology: the 2023 Atlas of Cardiovascular Disease Statistics.

European heart journal
2024-10 | Journal article
Contributors: Timmis A; Aboyans V; Vardas P; Townsend N; Torbica A; Kavousi M; Boriani G; Huculeci R; Kazakiewicz D; Scherr D et al.
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Angela Wood via Europe PubMed Central

A lipidomic dataset for epidemiological studies of acute myocardial infarction.

Data in brief
2024-09 | Journal article
Contributors: Castro C; Harshfield EL; Butterworth AS; Wood AM; Koulman A; Griffin JL
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Angela Wood via Europe PubMed Central

Evaluating the cost-effectiveness of polygenic risk score-stratified screening for abdominal aortic aneurysm.

Nature communications
2024-09 | Journal article
Contributors: Kelemen M; Danesh J; Di Angelantonio E; Inouye M; O'Sullivan J; Pennells L; Roychowdhury T; Sweeting MJ; Wood AM; Harrison S et al.
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Angela Wood via Europe PubMed Central

The power of arts-based film interventions to encourage Black blood donors.

Transfusion
2024-09 | Journal article
Contributors: Mills R; Okubanjo A; Acheampong N; Croucher M; Eaton N; Kazi A; Di Angelantonio E; Wood A; Masser B; Ferguson E
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Age and sex specific thresholds for risk stratification of cardiovascular disease and clinical decision making: prospective open cohort study.

BMJ medicine
2024-08 | Journal article
Contributors: Xu Z; Usher-Smith J; Pennells L; Chung R; Arnold M; Kim L; Kaptoge S; Sperrin M; Di Angelantonio E; Wood AM
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COVID-19 diagnosis, vaccination during pregnancy, and adverse pregnancy outcomes of 865,654 women in England and Wales: a population-based cohort study.

The Lancet regional health. Europe
2024-08 | Journal article
Contributors: Raffetti E; Bolton T; Nolan J; Zuccolo L; Denholm R; Smith G; Akbari A; Harron K; Curry G; Allara E et al.
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Angela Wood via Europe PubMed Central

Incidence of diabetes after SARS-CoV-2 infection in England and the implications of COVID-19 vaccination: a retrospective cohort study of 16 million people.

The lancet. Diabetes & endocrinology
2024-08 | Journal article
Contributors: Taylor K; Eastwood S; Walker V; Cezard G; Knight R; Al Arab M; Wei Y; Horne EMF; Teece L; Forbes H et al.
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Angela Wood via Europe PubMed Central

Integrated clinical risk prediction of type 2 diabetes with a multifactorial polygenic risk score

2024-08 | Preprint
Contributors: Ritchie SC; Taylor HJ; Liang Y; Manikpurage HD; Pennells L; Foguet C; Abraham G; Gibson JT; Jiang X; Liu Y et al.
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Angela Wood via Europe PubMed Central

The challenges of replication: a worked example of methods reproducibility using electronic health record data

2024-08 | Preprint
Contributors: Williams R; Bolton T; Jenkins D; Mizani MA; Sperrin M; FMedSci CS; Wood A; Heald A; Peek N
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Changes in sick notes associated with COVID-19 from 2020 to 2022: a cohort study in 24 million primary care patients in OpenSAFELY-TPP.

BMJ open
2024-07 | Journal article
Contributors: Schaffer AL; Park RY; Tazare J; Bhaskaran K; MacKenna B; Denaxas S; Dillingham I; Bacon SCJ; Mehrkar A; Bates C et al.
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Angela Wood via Europe PubMed Central

Cohort study of cardiovascular safety of different COVID-19 vaccination doses among 46 million adults in England.

Nature communications
2024-07 | Journal article
Contributors: Ip S; North TL; Torabi F; Li Y; Abbasizanjani H; Akbari A; Horne E; Denholm R; Keene S; Denaxas S et al.
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Angela Wood via Europe PubMed Central

Demographic factors associated with within-individual variability of lung function for adults with cystic fibrosis: A UK registry study.

Journal of cystic fibrosis : official journal of the European Cystic Fibrosis Society
2024-07 | Journal article
Contributors: Palma M; Keogh RH; Carr SB; Szczesniak R; Taylor-Robinson D; Wood AM; Muniz-Terrera G; Barrett JK
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Cancer incidence and competing mortality risk following 15 presenting symptoms in primary care: a population-based cohort study using electronic healthcare records

2024-05 | Preprint
Contributors: Barclay M; Renzi C; Harrison H; Torralbo A; White B; Ip S; Usher-Smith J; Lange J; Pashayan N; Denaxas S et al.
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Angela Wood via Europe PubMed Central

Improving reporting standards for phenotyping algorithm in biomedical research: 5 fundamental dimensions.

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
2024-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Wei WQ; Rowley R; Wood A; MacArthur J; Embi PJ; Denaxas S
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Making predictions under interventions: a case study from the PREDICT-CVD cohort in New Zealand primary care.

Frontiers in epidemiology
2024-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Lin L; Poppe K; Wood A; Martin GP; Peek N; Sperrin M
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Risk of cardiovascular events following COVID-19 in people with and without pre-existing chronic respiratory disease.

International journal of epidemiology
2024-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Whittaker H; Kallis C; Bolton T; Wood A; Walker S; Sheikh A; Brownrigg A; Akbari A; Sterniczuk K; Quint JK et al.
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Impact of vaccination on the association of COVID-19 with cardiovascular diseases: An OpenSAFELY cohort study.

Nature communications
2024-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Cezard GI; Denholm RE; Knight R; Wei Y; Teece L; Toms R; Forbes HJ; Walker AJ; Fisher L; Massey J et al.
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Angela Wood via Europe PubMed Central

Implementation and external validation of the Cambridge Multimorbidity Score in the UK Biobank cohort.

BMC medical research methodology
2024-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Harrison H; Ip S; Renzi C; Li Y; Barclay M; Usher-Smith J; Lyratzopoulos G; Wood A; Antoniou AC
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Angela Wood via Europe PubMed Central

Ethnicity data resource in population-wide health records: completeness, coverage and granularity of diversity.

Scientific data
2024-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Pineda-Moncusí M; Allery F; Delmestri A; Bolton T; Nolan J; Thygesen JH; Handy A; Banerjee A; Denaxas S; Tomlinson C et al.
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Angela Wood via Europe PubMed Central

Long-term cardiovascular safety of COVID-19 vaccination according to brand, dose and combinations: Cohort study of 46 million adults in England

2024-02 | Preprint
Contributors: Ip SHY; North T; Torabi F; Li Y; Abbasizanjani H; Akbari A; Horne EMF; Denholm R; Keene S; Denaxas S et al.
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Dose-Response Associations of Lipid Traits With Coronary Artery Disease and Mortality.

JAMA network open
2024-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Yang G; Mason AM; Wood AM; Schooling CM; Burgess S
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Angela Wood via Europe PubMed Central

Implementation and External Validation of the Cambridge Multimorbidity Score in the UK Biobank cohort

2024-01 | Preprint
Contributors: Harrison H; Ip S; Renzi C; Li Y; Barclay M; Usher-Smith J; Lyratzopoulos G; Wood A; Antoniou AC
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Undervaccination and severe COVID-19 outcomes: meta-analysis of national cohort studies in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales.

Lancet (London, England)
2024-01 | Journal article
Contributors: HDR UK COALESCE Consortium
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Body mass index, triglyceride-glucose index, and prostate cancer death: a mediation analysis in eight European cohorts.

British journal of cancer
2023-12 | Journal article
Contributors: Fritz J; Jochems SHJ; Bjørge T; Wood AM; Häggström C; Ulmer H; Nagel G; Zitt E; Engeland A; Harlid S et al.
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Estimating dose-response relationships for vitamin D with coronary heart disease, stroke, and all-cause mortality: observational and Mendelian randomisation analyses.

The lancet. Diabetes & endocrinology
2023-12 | Journal article
Contributors: Emerging Risk Factors Collaboration/EPIC-CVD/Vitamin D Studies Collaboration
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Genetics, primary care records and lifestyle factors for short-term dynamic risk prediction of colorectal cancer: prospective study of asymptomatic and symptomatic UK Biobank participants

2023-12 | Preprint
Contributors: Ip S; Harrison H; Usher-Smith JA; Barclay M; Tyrer J; Dennis J; Yang X; Lush M; Renzi C; Pashayan N et al.
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Impact of COVID-19 on mental illness in vaccinated and unvaccinated people: a population-based cohort study in OpenSAFELY

2023-12 | Preprint
Contributors: Walker VM; Patalay P; Cuitun Coronado JI; Denholm R; Forbes H; Stafford J; Moltrecht B; Palmer T; Walker A; Thompson EJ et al.
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Angela Wood via Europe PubMed Central

Phenotypes and rates of cancer-relevant symptoms and tests in the year before cancer diagnosis in UK Biobank and CPRD Gold.

PLOS digital health
2023-12 | Journal article
Contributors: Barclay M; Renzi C; Antoniou A; Denaxas S; Harrison H; Ip S; Pashayan N; Torralbo A; Usher-Smith J; Wood A et al.
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Angela Wood via Europe PubMed Central

Cardiovascular risk prediction using metabolomic biomarkers and polygenic risk scores: A cohort study and modelling analyses

2023-11 | Preprint
Contributors: Ritchie SC; Jiang X; Pennells L; Xu Y; Coffey C; Liu Y; Surendran P; Karthikeyan S; Lambert SA; Danesh J et al.
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Angela Wood via Europe PubMed Central

Age at Menopause and the Risk of Stroke: Observational and Mendelian Randomization Analysis in 204 244 Postmenopausal Women.

Journal of the American Heart Association
2023-09 | Journal article
Contributors: Tschiderer L; Peters SAE; van der Schouw YT; van Westing AC; Tong TYN; Willeit P; Seekircher L; Moreno-Iribas C; Huerta JM; Crous-Bou M et al.
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Angela Wood via Europe PubMed Central

Assessing dose-response relations of lipid traits with coronary artery disease, all-cause mortality, and cause-specific mortality: a linear and non-linear Mendelian randomization study

2023-09 | Preprint
Contributors: Yang G; Mason AM; Wood AM; Schooling CM; Burgess S
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Angela Wood via Europe PubMed Central

Association of Longer Leukocyte Telomere Length With Cardiac Size, Function, and Heart Failure.

JAMA cardiology
2023-09 | Journal article
Contributors: Aung N; Wang Q; van Duijvenboden S; Burns R; Stoma S; Raisi-Estabragh Z; Ahmet S; Allara E; Wood A; Di Angelantonio E et al.
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Genetically predicted plasma cortisol and common chronic diseases: A Mendelian randomization study.

Clinical endocrinology
2023-09 | Journal article
Contributors: Lee WH; Larsson SC; Wood A; Di Angelantonio E; Butterworth AS; Burgess S; Allara E
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Life expectancy associated with different ages at diagnosis of type 2 diabetes in high-income countries: 23 million person-years of observation.

The lancet. Diabetes & endocrinology
2023-09 | Journal article
Contributors: Emerging Risk Factors Collaboration
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Prioritising cardiovascular disease risk assessment to high risk individuals based on primary care records.

PloS one
2023-09 | Journal article
Contributors: Chung R; Xu Z; Arnold M; Stevens D; Keogh R; Barrett J; Harrison H; Pennells L; Kim LG; DiAngelantonio E et al.
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Diabetes following SARS-CoV-2 infection: Incidence, persistence, and implications of COVID-19 vaccination. A cohort study of fifteen million people

2023-08 | Preprint
Contributors: Taylor K; Eastwood S; Walker V; Cezard G; Knight R; Al Arab M; Wei Y; Horne EMF; Teece L; Forbes H et al.
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Angela Wood via Europe PubMed Central

Evaluation of interventions to prevent vasovagal reactions among whole blood donors: rationale and design of a large cluster randomised trial.

Trials
2023-08 | Journal article
Contributors: McMahon A; Kaptoge S; Walker M; Mehenny S; Gilchrist PT; Sambrook J; Akhtar N; Sweeting M; Wood AM; Stirrups K et al.
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Addressing ethnic and global health inequalities in the era of artificial intelligence healthcare models: a call for responsible implementation.

Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
2023-07 | Journal article
Contributors: Ali MR; Lawson CA; Wood AM; Khunti K
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SCORE2-Diabetes: 10-year cardiovascular risk estimation in type 2 diabetes in Europe.

European heart journal
2023-07 | Journal article
Contributors: SCORE2-Diabetes Working Group and the ESC Cardiovascular Risk Collaboration
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Using Polygenic Risk Scores for Prioritizing Individuals at Greatest Need of a Cardiovascular Disease Risk Assessment.

Journal of the American Heart Association
2023-07 | Journal article
Contributors: Chung R; Xu Z; Arnold M; Ip S; Harrison H; Barrett J; Pennells L; Kim LG; Di Angelantonio E; Paige E et al.
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Angela Wood via Europe PubMed Central

Ethnic differences in the indirect effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on clinical monitoring and hospitalisations for non-COVID conditions in England: a population-based, observational cohort study using the OpenSAFELY platform.

EClinicalMedicine
2023-06 | Journal article
Contributors: Costello RE; Tazare J; Piehlmaier D; Herrett E; Parker EPK; Zheng B; Mansfield KE; Henderson AD; Carreira H; Bidulka P et al.
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Angela Wood via Europe PubMed Central

Patient characteristics associated with clinically coded long COVID: an OpenSAFELY study using electronic health records

2023-06 | Preprint
Contributors: Wei Y; Horne EM; Knight R; Cezard G; Walker A; Fisher L; Denholm R; Taylor K; Walker V; Riley S et al.
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Angela Wood via Europe PubMed Central

Risk Factors of Secondary Cardiovascular Events in a Multi-Ethnic Asian Population with Acute Myocardial Infarction: A Retrospective Cohort Study from Malaysia.

Journal of cardiovascular development and disease
2023-06 | Journal article
Contributors: Ismail SR; Mohammad MSF; Butterworth AS; Chowdhury R; Danesh J; Di Angelantonio E; Griffin SJ; Pennells L; Wood AM; Md Noh MF et al.
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Angela Wood via Europe PubMed Central

Factors associated with within-individual variability of lung function for people with cystic fibrosis: a longitudinal registry study

2023-05 | Preprint
Contributors: Palma M; Keogh RH; Carr SB; Szczesniak R; Taylor-Robinson D; Wood AM; Muniz-Terrera G; Barrett JK
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Angela Wood via Europe PubMed Central

Risk factors for a serious adverse outcome in neonates: a retrospective cohort study of vaginal births.

BJOG : an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
2023-05 | Journal article
Contributors: Jindal S; Steer PJ; Savvidou M; Draycott T; Dixon-Woods M; Wood A; Kim LG
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Estimating the Effectiveness of Kidney Cancer Screening Within Lung Cancer Screening Programmes: A Validation in UK Biobank.

European urology oncology
2023-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Harrison H; Wood A; Pennells L; Rossi SH; Callister M; Cartledge J; Stewart GD; Usher-Smith JA
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Angela Wood via Europe PubMed Central

Risk of cardiovascular events following COVID-19 in people with and without pre-existing chronic respiratory disease

2023-03 | Preprint
Contributors: Whittaker H; Kallis C; Bolton T; Wood A; Walker S; Sheikh A; Brownrigg A; Akbari A; Sterniczuk K; Quint J
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Angela Wood via Europe PubMed Central

Age at menopause and the risk of stroke: Observational and Mendelian Randomization analysis in 204,244 postmenopausal women

2023-02 | Preprint
Contributors: Tschiderer L; Peters SA; van der Schouw YT; van Westing AC; Tong TY; Willeit P; Seekircher L; Moreno-Iribas C; Huerta JM; Crous-Bou M et al.
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Angela Wood via Europe PubMed Central
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