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F. Javier Nieto is the chair of the department of
Population Health Sciences. He received his MD degree from the
University of Valencia, Spain, in 1978. Between 1979 and 1985 he
completed a residency in Family and Community Medicine in Spain and an
MPH degree in Havana, Cuba. After a brief period working for the Spanish
Government in developing primary health care centers in a rural area in
central Spain, he came to the United States, to the Johns Hopkins
University where he completed a Master in Health Science (MHS, 1989) and
a Ph.D. degree in Epidemiology (1991). In 1991 he joined the faculty of
the department of Epidemiology in the Johns Hopkins University School of
Public Health and served as an Associate Professor between 1998 and
2001. Between 1993 and 2001, he served as a member of the editorial
board of the American Journal of Epidemiology. He joined the
department of Population Health Sciences at UW in January 2002.
Dr. Nieto’s main areas of research interest include cardiovascular
disease epidemiology, markers of subclinical atherosclerosis, emerging
risk factors for cardiovascular disease (homocysteine, inflammation
markers, chronic infections), health consequences of sleep disorders and
psychosocial stress. He is also interested in methodological issues in
epidemiology and in the teaching of epidemiologic methods. Along with
Moyses Szklo, he is co-author of a textbook on intermediate epidemiology
methods (Epidemiology: Beyond the Basics, 2nd Edition.
Boston, Mass, Jones & Bartlet Publishers, 2007).
In 2003, Javier Nieto joined the
Madison Symphony Orchestra Choir and the Madison Opera Choir, where
he sings with the bass section.
Affiliations/Associations:
American College of Epidemiology (Board of Directors member)
American Society of Epidemiology (Elected member)
American Heart Association, Council on Epidemiology and Prevention
(Fellow)
American Public Health Association
Society for Epidemiologic Research
Sociedad Española de Epidemiología (Spanish
Epidemiologic Society)
Sociedad Española de Salud Pública y Administración
Sanitaria (Spanish Society of Public Health and Health Services
Administration)
Representative Publications
(from about 160):
Shankar A, Klein R,
Klein BEK, Nieto FJ, Moss SE. Relationship between low-normal blood
pressure and kidney disease in type 1 diabetes. Hypertension
2007;49:48-54.
Gottlieb DJ, Redline S, Nieto FJ, Baldwin CM, Newman AB, Resnick HE,
Punjabi NM. Association of usual sleep time with hypertension: The
Sleep Heart Health Study. Sleep 2006;29:1009-14.
Ranjit N, Diez-Roux AV, Chambless LE, Jacobs D, Nieto FJ, Szklo M.
Socioeconomic differences in progression of carotid intima-media
thickness in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study.
Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol 2006;26:411-6.
Newman AB, Goster G, Givelber R, Nieto FJ, Redline S, Young T.
Progression and regression of sleep disordered breathing with changes in
weight: The Sleep Heart Health Study. Arch Intern Med
2005;165:2408-13.
Nieto FJ, Herrington DM, Redline S, Benjamin E, Robbins JA. Sleep
apnea and markers of endothelial function in a large community sample of
elderly adults. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2004;164:354-60.
Ding J, Eigenbrodt ML, Mosley TH, Hutchinson RG, Folsom AR, Harris TB;
Nieto FJ. Alcohol intake and cerebral abnormalities on magnetic
resonance imaging in a community-based population of middle-aged adults:
the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study. Stroke
2004;35:16-21.
Chambless LE, Folsom AR, Sharrett AR, Sorlie PD, Couper D, Szklo M,
Nieto FJ. Coronary Heart Disease Risk Prediction in The Atherosclerosis
Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study. J Clin Epidemiol 2003;56:880-90.
Nieto FJ. The epidemiology of self-deprecation. Int J Epidemiol 2002;
31:1124-7.
Diez Roux AV, Merkin SS, Arnett D, Chambless LD, Massing M, Nieto FJ,
et al. Neighborhood of residence and incidence of coronary heart
disease. N Engl J Med 2001;345:99-106.
Nieto FJ, Iribarren C, Gross MD, Comstock GW, Cutler RG. Uric acid
and serum antioxidant capacity: A reaction to atherosclerosis?
Atherosclerosis 2000;148:131-9.
Nieto FJ, Young T, Lind B, Shahar E, Samet JM, Redline S, D'Agostino
RB, Newman AB, Lebowitz MD, Pickering TG. Association of
Sleep-disordered breathing, sleep apnea, and hypertension in a large
community-based study. JAMA 2000;283:1829-36.
Nieto FJ, Folsom AR, Sorlie P, Grayston JT, Wang SP, Chambless LE.
Chlamydia pneumoniae infection and incident coronary heart disease: The
Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study. Am J Epidemiol
1999;150:149-56.
Nieto FJ, Diez-Roux A, Szklo M, Comstock GW, Sharrett AR. Short and
long term predictors of clinical and subclinical atherosclerosis by
traditional risk factors. J Clin Epidemiol 1999;52:559-67.
Nieto FJ. Viruses and atherosclerosis: A critical review of the
epidemiologic evidence. Am Heart J 1999;138:S453-60.
Nieto FJ. Cardiovascular disease and risk factor epidemiology: A look
back at the epidemic of the 20th century. Am J Public Health
1999;89:292-4.
Nieto FJ. Infections and atherosclerosis: New clues from an old
hypothesis? Am J Epidemiol 1998;148:937-48.
Nieto FJ, Sorlie P, Comstock GW, Wu K, Adam E, Melnick JL, Szklo M.
Cytomegalovirus infection, lipoprotein(a), and hypercoagulability: An
atherogenic link?. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol 1997;17:1780-5.
Nieto FJ, Comstock GW, Chambless LE, Malinow MR. Coffee consumption
and plasma homocyst(e)ine: results from the Atherosclerosis Risk in
Communities Study. Am J Clin Nutr 1997;66:1475-6.
Nieto FJ, Coresh J. Adjusted survival curves: A review and a new
method. Am J Epidemiol 1996;143:1059-68.
Nieto FJ, Adam E, Sorlie P, Farzadegan H, Melnick JL, Comstock GW,
Szklo M. Cohort study of cytomegalovirus infection as a risk factor for
carotid intimal-medial thickening, a measure of subclinical
atherosclerosis. Circulation 1996;94:922-7.
Nieto FJ, Alonso J, Chambless LE, Zhong M, Ceraso M, Romm FJ, Cooper
L, Folsom AR, Szklo M. Population awareness and control of hypertension
and hypercholesterolemia. The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study.
Arch Int Med 1995;155:677-84.
Courses Taught:
POP HLTH 717: Principles of Population Medicine and Epidemiology
PHS 795: Principles of Population Health
Science Contact Information:
F. Javier Nieto, MD, PhD
Helfaer Professor of Public Health
Professor and Chair, Department of Population Health Sciences
University of Wisconsin Medical School
610 Walnut Street, 707C WARF
Madison, WI 53726-2397
Phone: (608) 265-5242
Fax: (608) 263-2820
Email: fjnieto@wisc.edu
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