Assistant Professor, Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

Cardiology

Doctor Uchechukwu K. Sampson, MD practices Cardiology. He has 1 awards "Fellow (FACC)". Dr. Uchechukwu K. Sampson is a published physician. He has 33 publications published. The most current publication "Polyunsaturated fat intake and mortality in non-statin users, is there an independent relationship? The authors reply."

Publications

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• Intake of polyunsaturated fat in relation to mortality among statin users and non-users in the Southern Community Cohort Study.
• Polyunsaturated fat intake and mortality in non-statin users, is there an independent relationship? The authors reply.
• Implementation research: an imperative for improving global health and health inequities.
• A global health strategy to capitalize on proven-effective interventions for Heart, lung, and blood diseases.
• Smoking, sex, risk factors and abdominal Aortic aneurysms: a prospective study of 18 782 persons aged above 65 years in the Southern Community Cohort Study.
• Carotid Adventitial Vasa Vasorum and Intima-Media Thickness in a Primary Prevention Population.
• Global, regional, and national prevalence of overweight and obesity in children and adults during 1980-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Stu...
• Global, regional, and national levels of neonatal, infant, and under-5 mortality during 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013.
• Global, regional, and national levels and causes of maternal mortality during 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013.
• Angiotensin-induced abdominal Aortic aneurysms in hypercholesterolemic mice: role of serum cholesterol and temporal effects of exposure.
• The State of US Health, 1990-2010: Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors.
• Augmented Cardiac Formation of Oxidatively-Induced Carbonylated Proteins Accompanies the Increased Functional Severity of Post-Myocardial Infarction Heart Failure in t...
• Incident diabetes and statins: the blemish of an undisputed heavy weight champion?
• Short-term trends in Heart failure-related hospitalizations in a high-risk state.
• Common values in assessing health outcomes from Disease and injury: disability weights measurement study for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010.
• Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010.
• A prospective study of statin use and mortality among 67,385 blacks and whites in the Southeastern United States.
• The epidemiology of cardiovascular Diseases in sub-saharan Africa: the global burden of Diseases, injuries and risk factors 2010 study.
• Depression increases stroke hospitalization cost: an analysis of 17,010 stroke patients in 2008 by race and gender.
• A simple, cost-effective quality assurance model for measurement of lipids in a large epidemiological study.
• Effect of pyrethroids on carbohydrate metabolic pathways in common carp, Cyprinus carpio.
• Knowledge management in clinical practice: a systematic review of information seeking behavior in physicians.
• Value of vasodilator left ventricular ejection fraction reserve in evaluating the magnitude of myocardium at risk and the extent of angiographic Coronary artery diseas...
• Composite outcomes: weighting component events according to severity assisted interpretation but reduced statistical power.
• CT-based attenuation correction versus prone imaging to decrease equivocal interpretations of rest/stress Tc-99m tetrofosmin SPECT MPI.
• Diagnostic accuracy of rubidium-82 myocardial perfusion imaging with hybrid positron emission tomography/computed tomography in the detection of Coronary artery disease.
• Predictors of stroke in high-risk patients after acute myocardial infarction: insights from the VALIANT Trial.
• Residual cardiovascular risk despite optimal LDL cholesterol reduction with statins: the evidence, etiology, and therapeutic challenges.
• Quantitative estimates of the variability of in vivo sonographic measurements of the mouse aorta for studies of abdominal Aortic aneurysms and related arterial diseases.
• Are statins diabetogenic?
• Race, sex, and age differences in Heart failure-related hospitalizations in a southern state: implications for prevention.
• Initial clinical encounter with the patient with established Hypertension.

Schools

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• University Of Ibadan

Procedures Preformed

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• Cardiac Imaging

Conditions Treated

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• Aortic Aneurysm
• Arrhythmias (incl. Atrial Fibrillation)
• Congestive Heart Failure
• Coronary Artery Disease (CAD)
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Doctors Specialties

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• Cardiology

Accepted Insurances

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Awards

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• Fellow (FACC)

Education

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• Vanderbilt University
• Brooklyn Hospital Center
• University of Ibadan

Hospital

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• Vanderbilt Hospital and Clinics

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