Eliseo Guallar, MD, MPH

Background

Centers and Institutes

• Center for Human Nutrition
• Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research

Additional Academic Titles

Joint Appointment in Medicine

Research Interests

Cardiovascular disease epidemiology, Epidemiologic methods, Fish oils, Heavy metals, Meta-analysis, Polyunsaturated fatty acids

Lab Website

Eliseo Guallar Lab

• Research in the Eliseo Guallar Lab focuses on the epidemiology and prevention of cardiovascular diseases. We have a special interest in the roles played by mercury, arsenic, lead and cadmium in cardiovascular disease development. Our methodological interests include determining threshold effects in epidemiological studies and applying statistical methods to epidemiological problem-solving.

Research Summary

Dr. Guallar’s research focuses on the epidemiology and prevention of cardiovascular diseases, with a special emphasis on environmental exposures such as heavy metals. He is particularly interested in the role of mercury, arsenic, lead, and cadmium in the development of cardiovascular disease. His methodological interests include the determination of threshold effects in epidemiological studies and the application of statistical methods in epidemiological problems.

Google Scholar

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=p6sCTDcAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

PubMed

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Guallar+E

Selected Publications

• DeMazumder D, Limpitikul WB, Dorante M, Dey S, Mukhopadhyay B, Zhang Y, Moorman JR, Cheng A, Berger RD, Guallar E, Jones SR, Tomaselli GF. “Entropy of cardiac repolarization predicts ventricular arrhythmias and mortality in patients receiving an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator for primary prevention of sudden death.” Europace. 2016 Apr 4. pii: euv399.

• Ko F, Boland MV, Gupta P, Gadkaree SK, Vitale S, Guallar E, Zhao D, Friedman DS. “Diabetes, triglyceride levels, and other risk factors for glaucoma in the national health and nutrition examination survey 2005-2008.” Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2016 Apr 1;57(4):2152-7. doi: 10.1167/iovs.15-18373.

• Laclaustra M, Casasnovas JA, Fernández-Ortiz A, Fuster V, León-Latre M, Jiménez-Borreguero LJ, Pocovi M, Hurtado-Roca Y, Ordovas JM, Jarauta E, Guallar E, Ibañez B, Civeira F. “Femoral and carotid subclinical atherosclerosis association with risk factors and coronary calcium: the AWHS study.” J Am Coll Cardiol. 2016 Mar 22;67(11):1263-74. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2015.12.056.

• Pang Y, Jones MR, Tellez-Plaza M, Guallar E, Vaidya D, Post WS, Kaufman JD, Delaney JA, Navas-Acien A. “Association of geography and ambient air pollution with urine metal concentrations in six us cities: the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis.” Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2016 Mar 15;13(3). pii: E324. doi: 10.3390/ijerph13030324.

• Pang Y, Peng RD, Jones MR, Francesconi KA, Goessler W, Howard BV, Umans JG, Best LG, Guallar E, Post WS, Kaufman JD, Vaidya D, Navas-Acien A. “Metal mixtures in urban and rural populations in the US: the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis and the strong heart study.” Environ Res. 2016 May;147:356-64. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2016.02.032. Epub 2016 Mar 2.

• Qiao Y, Guallar E, Suri FK, Liu L, Zhang Y, Anwar Z, Mirbagheri S, Xie YJ, Nezami N, Intrapiromkul J, Zhang S, Alonso A, Chu H, Couper D, Wasserman BA. “mr imaging measures of intracranial atherosclerosis in a population-based study.” Radiology. 2016 Mar 29:151124.

• Qiao Y, Guallar E, Wasserman BA. “Response to letter regarding article, 'patterns and implications of intracranial arterial remodeling in stroke patients.'” Stroke. 2016 May;47(5):e87. Doi: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.116.012970. Epub 2016 Apr 14.

• Seo SW, Gottesman RF, Clark JM, Hernaez R, Chang Y, Kim C, Ha KH, Guallar E, Lazo M. “Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease is associated with cognitive function in adults.” Neurology. 2016 Mar 22;86(12):1136-42. doi: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000002498. Epub 2016 Feb 24.

• Suri MF, Qiao Y, Ma X, Guallar E, Zhou J, Zhang Y, Liu L, Chu H, Qureshi AI, Alonso A, Folsom AR, Wasserman BA. “Prevalence of intracranial atherosclerotic stenosis using high-resolution magnetic resonance angiography in the general population: the atherosclerosis risk in communities study.” Stroke. 2016 May;47(5):1187-93. doi: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.115.011292. Epub 2016 Apr 7.

• Zhang Y, Guallar E, Weiss RG, Stillabower M, Gerstenblith G, Tomaselli GF, Wu KC. “Associations between scar characteristics by cardiac magnetic resonance and changes in left ventricular ejection fraction in primary prevention defibrillator recipients.” Heart Rhythm. 2016 Apr 19. pii: S1547-5271(16)30209-0. doi: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2016.04.013. 

Honors

• Fellow, American Heart Association, Council on Epidemiology and Prevention, 1/1/13
• Scientist Development Award, American Heart Association, 1/1/02
• Faculty Innovation Award, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 1/1/01
• Fulbright Scholar, Department of Epidemiology of the Harvard School of Public Health, 1/1/89

Professional Activities

• American Journal of Epidemiology, Associate Editor
• Annals of Internal Medicine, Associate Editor
• Nutrition Journal and Environmental Health Perspectives, Associate Editor