Monika M. Safford

Aspirin as Primary Prevention of Acute Coronary Heart Disease Events

Stephen P. Glasser, Martha Hovater, Todd M. Brown, George Howard & Monika M. Safford · Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research · 2014

Background/Objective: Aspirin for primary prophylaxis is controversial. This study evaluated associations between prophylactic aspirin use and incident acute coronary heart disease (CHD) events. Methods and Results: The Reasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke (REG...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJMMR/2014/11212

Left Ventricular Hypertrophy and Incidence of Acute Coronary Heart Disease and Mortality in the Reasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke Study (REGARDS)

Ronald J. Prineas, Anh Le, Stephen P. Glasser, Vera Bittner, William M. McClellan, Xin Wang, Yulia Khodneva & Monika M. Safford · Cardiology and Angiology: An International Journal · 2014

Objective: To examine the relationship between left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) and the incidence of acute coronary heart disease (CHD) and mortality in the modern era.  Methods: We studied 16, 390 black and white participants free of clinical CHD from a US national sample. The...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/CA/2015/13917