Faculty

Bruce M Psaty

Professor, Epidemiology
Professor, Medicine - General Internal Medicine
Adjunct Professor, Health Systems and Population Health

206-221-7775

Education

MD Indiana University, 1981
PhD English, Indiana University, 1979

Contact

206-221-7775

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

  • Cardiovascular epidemiology
  • Myocardial infarction and stroke
  • Venous thrombosis
  • Atrial fibrillation
  • Risk factors, including hypertension, dyslipidemia, and diabetes
  • Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety
  • Genetics, genomics and pharmacogenetics
  • Epidemiological methods

Recent Publications (PubMed)

Methylome-wide association analyses of lipids and modifying effects of behavioral factors in diverse race and ethnicity participants.
(2025 Apr 2)
Clin Epigenetics 17(1): 54
Hu Y, Haessler J, Lundin JI, Darst BF, Whitsel EA, Grove M, Guan W, Xia R, Szeto M, Raffield LM, Ratliff S, Wang Y, Wang X, Fohner AE, Lynch MT, Patel YM, Lani Park S, Xu H, Mitchell BD, Bis JC, Sotoodehnia N, Brody JA, Psaty BM, Peloso GM, Tsai MY, Rich SS, Rotter JI, Smith JA, Kardia SLR, Reiner AP, Lange L, Fornage M, Pankow JS, Graff M, North KE, Kooperberg C, Peters U

Clinical and Imaging Markers of Cardiac Function and Brain Health: A Meta-Analysis of Community-Based Studies.
(2025 Apr 22)
Neurology 104(8): e213421
Yaqub A, Bis JC, Frenzel S, Koini M, Mbangdadji D, Peloso GM, Talluri R, Alonso A, Bahls M, Bülow R, Dörr M, Felix S, Fohner A, Friedrich N, Hofer E, Kavousi M, Launer LJ, Le T, Longstreth W, Mosley TH, Vernooij MW, Völzke H, Wittfeld K, Beiser AS, Grabe HJ, Gudnason V, Ikram MA, Psaty BM, Schmidt R, Simino J, Seshadri S, Wolters FJ, as Cross-Cohort Collaboration

Rare damaging CCR2 variants are associated with lower lifetime cardiovascular risk.
(2025 Mar 21)
Genome Med 17(1): 27
Georgakis MK, Malik R, Bounkari OE, Hasbani NR, Li J, Huffman JE, Shakt G, Tack RWP, Kimball TN, Asare Y, Morrison AC, Tsao NL, Judy R, Mitchell BD, Xu H, Montasser ME, Do R, Kenny EE, Loos RJF, Terry JG, Carr JJ, Bis JC, Psaty BM, Longstreth WT, Young KA, Lutz SM, Cho MH, Broome J, Khan AT, Wang FF, Heard-Costa N, Seshadri S, Vasan RS, Palmer ND, Freedman BI, Bowden DW, Yanek LR, Kral BG, Becker LC, Peyser PA, Bielak LF, Ammous F, Carson AP, Hall ME, Raffield LM, Rich SS, Post WS, Tracy RP, Taylor KD, Guo X, Mahaney MC, Curran JE, Blangero J, Clarke SL, Haessler JW, Hu Y, Assimes TL, Kooperberg C, Bernhagen J, Anderson CD, Damrauer SM, Zand R, Rotter JI, de Vries PS, Dichgans M

Association Between Cigarette Smoking and Subclinical Markers of Cardiovascular Harm.
(2025 Mar 18)
J Am Coll Cardiol 85(10): 1018-1034
Yao Z, Tasdighi E, Dardari ZA, Jha KK, Osuji N, Rajan T, Boakye E, Rodriguez CJ, Matsushita K, Simonsick EM, Lima JAC, Widome R, Cohen DL, Appel LJ, Khera A, Hall ME, Judd SE, Cole SA, Vasan RS, Benjamin EJ, Lotufo PA, Benseñor IM, El Khoudary SR, Barinas-Mitchell E, Janssen I, Psaty BM, Eaton CB, LaMonte MJ, Cawthon PM, Orwoll ES, Irvin MR, Bhatnagar A, DeFilippis AP, El-Shahaway O, Blaha MJ

Sequencing in over 50,000 cases identifies coding and structural variation underlying atrial fibrillation risk.
(2025 Mar)
Nat Genet 57(3): 548-562
Choi SH, Jurgens SJ, Xiao L, Hill MC, Haggerty CM, Sveinbjörnsson G, Morrill VN, Marston NA, Weng LC, Pirruccello JP, Arnar DO, Gudbjartsson DF, Mantineo H, von Falkenhausen AS, Natale A, Tveit A, Geelhoed B, Roselli C, Van Wagoner DR, Darbar D, Haase D, Soliman EZ, Davogustto GE, Jun G, Calkins H, Anderson JL, Brody JA, Halford JL, Barnard J, Hokanson JE, Smith JD, Bis JC, Young K, Johnson LSB, Risch L, Gula LJ, Kwee LC, Chaffin MD, Kühne M, Preuss M, Gupta N, Nafissi NA, Smith NL, Nilsson PM, van der Harst P, Wells QS, Judy RL, Schnabel RB, Johnson R, Smit RAJ, Gabriel S, Knight S, Furukawa T, Blackwell TW, Nauffal V, Wang X, Min YI, Yoneda ZT, Laksman ZWM, Bezzina CR, Alonso A, Psaty BM, Albert CM, Arking DE, Roden DM, Chasman DI, Rader DJ, Conen D, McManus DD, Fatkin D, Benjamin EJ, Boerwinkle E, Marcus GM, Christophersen IE, Smith JG, Roberts JD, Raffield LM, Shoemaker MB, Cho MH, Cutler MJ, Rienstra M, Chung MK, S Olesen M, Sinner MF, Sotoodehnia N, Kirchhof P, Loos RJF, Nazarian S, Mohanty S, Damrauer SM, Kaab S, Heckbert SR, Redline S, Shah SH, Tanaka T, Ebana Y, Regeneron Genetics Center, NHLBI Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) Consortium, Holm H, Stefansson K, Ruff CT, Sabatine MS, Lunetta KL, Lubitz SA, Ellinor PT

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