RESEARCH PROFILE

His main interests are in the prevention, detection and management of hypertension and its complications of the heart, brain, kidneys and the circulation. His research interests are the epidemiology of cardiovascular disease, nutrition and health, metabolic abnormalities and cardiovascular risk, risk in ethnic minorities, both in developed and developing countries.

BACKGROUND

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

• Hypergenes, with Prof D.Cusi, University of Milan, Italy, Prof F.P.Cappuccio, CSRI, WMS, European Union, Project Start Date: 01/01/2008 Project End Date: 31/12/2011
• Millenium Development Goals (MDG) and Childhood Survival in the Democratic Republic of Congo: What can we Learn from Household Surveys, with Dr. Ngianga-Bakwin Kandala, Clinical Sciences Research Institute, Warwick Medical School, Prof Francesco P Cappuccio - Clinical Sciences Research Institute, British Council, Project Start Date: 01/10/2008 Project End Date: 30/09/2011
• The Millennium Development Goals (MDG) and Childhood survival in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), with Dr N-B Kandala, CSRI - Warwick Medical School, Prof F.P.Cappuccio - CSRI - WMS, Institute of Advance Study (University of Warwick), Project Start Date: 01/10/2008 Project End Date: 30/09/2011
• West Midlands Local Stroke Research Network, with Dr C Roffe, Staffordshire NHS Trust, Prof F P Cappuccio, CSRI, WMS, Department of Health, Project Start Date: 01/04/2007 Project End Date: 30/04/2011
  
  

  Further Research Projects

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Cappuccio FP, Bakewell A, Taggart FM, Ward G, Ji C, Sullivan JP, Edmunds M, Pounder R, Landrigan CP, Lockley SW, Peile E (2009) 'Implementing a 48h EWTD-compliant rota for junior doctors in the UK does not compromise patients? safety: assessor-blind pilot comparison' QJM 102 271 - 282 (1460-2725) [article]
• Stranges S, Dorn JM, Cappuccio FP, Donahue RP, Rafalson LB, Hovey KM, Freudenheim JL, Kandala N-B, Miller MA, Trevisan M (2010) 'A population-based study of short sleep duration and hypertension: the strongest association may be in pre-menopausal women' Journal Of Hypertension in press (0263-6352)
• Strazzullo P, D?Elia L, Cairella G, Garbagnati F, Cappuccio FP, Scalfi L (2010) 'Excess body weight and incidence of stroke: a meta-analysis of 25 prospective studies with two million participants.' Stroke in press (0039-2499)
• Ribic CH, Zakotnik JM, Vertnik L, Vegnuti M, Cappuccio FP (2010) 'Salt intake of the Slovene population assessed by 24-hour urinary sodium excretion.' Public Health Nutrition in press (1368-9800)
• Cappuccio FP (2010) 'Relationship of dietary electrolyte intake (sodium, potassium, calcium and magnesium) to blood pressure regulation and hypertension.' in Cardiovascular disease: nutritional and metabolic bases., Editors: Mancini M, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing

Further Publications

Conference Papers

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