Faculty

Susan R Heckbert

Professor, Epidemiology

206-221-7775

Education

MD Case Western Reserve University, 1981
PhD Epidemiology, University of Washington, 1990

Contact

206-221-7775

Cardiovascular Health Research Unit
Box 358085
1730 Minor Avenue, Suite 1360
Seattle, WA 98101
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Research Interests

Dr. Heckbert's main research interests are in clinical epidemiology, with emphasis on cardiovascular disease. Her research focuses on cardiac arrhythmias, aging, alterations in brain structure and function, medication effects and drug safety, and genetic associations with cardiovascular disease.

Recent Publications (PubMed)

Smoking and Type 1 Versus Type 2 Myocardial Infarction Among People With HIV in the United States.
(2024 Sep 6)
J Assoc Nurses AIDS Care
Crane HM, Nance RM, Ruderman SA, Drumright LN, Mixson LS, Heckbert SR, Feinstein MJ, Budoff MJ, Bamford L, Cachay E, Napravnik S, Moore RD, Keruly J, Willig AL, Burkholder GA, Hahn A, Ma J, Fredericksen R, Saag MS, Chander G, Kitahata MM, Crothers K, Mayer KH, O'Cleirigh C, Cropsey K, Whitney BM, Delaney JAC

Genome-Wide Interaction Analyses of Serum Calcium on Ventricular Repolarization Time in 125 393 Participants.
(2024 Sep 3)
J Am Heart Assoc 13(17): e034760
Young WJ, van der Most PJ, Bartz TM, Bos MM, Biino G, Duong T, Foco L, Lominchar JT, Müller-Nurasyid M, Nardone GG, Pecori A, Ramirez J, Repetto L, Schramm K, Shen X, van Duijvenboden S, van Heemst D, Weiss S, Yao J, Benjamins JW, Alonso A, Spedicati B, Biggs ML, Brody JA, Dörr M, Fuchsberger C, Gögele M, Guo X, Ikram MA, Jukema JW, Kääb S, Kanters JK, Lifelines Cohort Study, Lin HJ, Linneberg A, Nauck M, Nolte IM, Pianigiani G, Santin A, Soliman EZ, Tesolin P, Vaccargiu S, Waldenberger M, van der Harst P, Verweij N, Arking DE, Concas MP, De Grandi A, Girotto G, Grarup N, Kavousi M, Mook-Kanamori DO, Navarro P, Orini M, Padmanabhan S, Pattaro C, Peters A, Pirastu M, Pramstaller PP, Heckbert SR, Sinner M, Snieder H, Völker U, Wilson JF, Gauderman WJ, Lambiase PD, Sotoodehnia N, Tinker A, Warren HR, Noordam R, Munroe PB

Brain aging patterns in a large and diverse cohort of 49,482 individuals.
(2024 Aug 15)
Nat Med
Yang Z, Wen J, Erus G, Govindarajan ST, Melhem R, Mamourian E, Cui Y, Srinivasan D, Abdulkadir A, Parmpi P, Wittfeld K, Grabe HJ, Bülow R, Frenzel S, Tosun D, Bilgel M, An Y, Yi D, Marcus DS, LaMontagne P, Benzinger TLS, Heckbert SR, Austin TR, Waldstein SR, Evans MK, Zonderman AB, Launer LJ, Sotiras A, Espeland MA, Masters CL, Maruff P, Fripp J, Toga AW, O'Bryant S, Chakravarty MM, Villeneuve S, Johnson SC, Morris JC, Albert MS, Yaffe K, Völzke H, Ferrucci L, Nick Bryan R, Shinohara RT, Fan Y, Habes M, Lalousis PA, Koutsouleris N, Wolk DA, Resnick SM, Shou H, Nasrallah IM, Davatzikos C

Population Attributable Fraction of Total Stroke Associated with Modifiable Risk Factors in the United States.
(2024 Jun 19)
Am J Epidemiol
Lee M, Lakshminarayan K, Sedaghat S, Sabayan B, Chen LY, Johansen MC, Gottesman RF, Heckbert SR, Misialek JR, Szklo M, Lutsey PL

Change in left atrial function and volume predicts incident heart failure with preserved and reduced ejection fraction: Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.
(2024 Jun 17)
Eur Heart J Cardiovasc Imaging
Lim DJ, Varadarajan V, Quinaglia T, Pezel T, Wu C, Noda C, Heckbert SR, Bluemke D, Ambale-Venkatesh B, Lima JAC

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