Dr Sarah Wild
Sarah trained in medicine at the universities of London and Cambridge and has had postgraduate experience of general medicine and diabetes, general practice and public health medicine. She did an M.Sc. and Ph.D. in epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. She enjoyed a postdoctoral fellowship in cardiovascular epidemiology at Stanford University and a secondment to the Burden of Disease team at the World Health Organization in Geneva. Sarah has been senior lecturer in epidemiology and public health at the University of Edinburgh and honorary consultant in public health medicine at NHS Lothian since September 2002 and was promoted to reader in August 2009. She is also the Director of Epidemiology and Statistics Core, Edinburgh Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility. Her main academic interests are the epidemiology of diabetes and cardiovascular disease and her current major research projects include linkage of Scottish national diabetes register data to other sources of health data, a genetic epidemiology project based in Orkney led by Dr Jim Wilson and a trial of telemetric monitoring of blood glucose and blood pressure led by Dr Brian McKinstry.
Recent Publications
- Wild SH, Byrne CD, Tzoulaki I, et al. Metabolic syndrome, haemostatic and inflammatory markers, cerebrovascular and peripheral arterial disease: The Edinburgh Artery Study. Atherosclerosis. 2009; 203: 604-609.
- Johansson A, Marroni F, Hayward C, et al on behalf of the EUROSPAN Consortium. Common variants in the JAZF1 gene associated with
- Clough G, Turzyniecka M, Walter L, Krentz A, Wild S, Chipperfield A, Gamble J, Byrne C Muscle Microvascular Dysfunction in Central Obesity is Related to Muscle Insulin Insensitivity but is not Reversed by High-Dose Statin Treatment. Diabetes. 2009 May;58(5):1185-91
- Clough G, Turzyniecka M, Walter L, Krentz A, Wild S, Chipperfield A, Gamble J, Byrne C Muscle Microvascular Dysfunction in Central Obesity is Related to Muscle Insulin Insensitivity but is not Reversed by High-Dose Statin Treatment. Diabetes. 2009 May;58(5):1185-91
- Bhala N, Bhopal R, Brock A, Griffiths C, Wild S. Alcohol-related and hepatocellular cancer deaths by country of birth in England and Wales: analysis of mortality and census data. J Public Health (Oxf). 2009 Jun;31(2):250-7.
- McAllister D, Wild S. Why should clinicians understand epidemiology? Postgrad Med J. 2009 Jun;85(1004):313-5.
- Gao WG, Qiao Q, Pitkäniemi J, Wild S, et al. Risk prediction models for the development of diabetes in Mauritian Indians. Diabetic Medicine 2009;26(10):996-1002.
- Pinnock H, Hanley J, Lewis S, MacNee W, Pagliari C, van der Pol M, Sheikh A, McKinstry B; TELESCOT Programme Group.The impact of a telemetric chronic obstructive pulmonary disease monitoring service: randomised controlled trial with economic evaluation and nested qualitative study. Prim Care Respir J. 2009 Sep;18(3):233-5
- SDRN Epidemiology Group. Use of insulin glargine and cancer incidence in Scotland: a study from the Scottish Diabetes Research Network Epidemiology Group. Diabetologia. 2009 Sep;52(9):1755-65
- The MAGIC investigators. New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk. Nature Genetics in press.
- McKeigue PM, Campbell H, Wild S, et al. Bayesian methods for instrumental variable analysis with genetic instruments ("Mendelian randomization"): example with urate transporter SLC2A9 as instrumental variable for effect of urate levels on metabolic syndrome. Int J Epidem 2009: in press
- Marroni F, Pfeufer A, Aulchenko Y, et al A genome-wide association scan of QT and RR interval in three European isolated populations. The EUROSPAN project. Circulation: Cardiovascular Genetics. 2009 Aug;2(4):322-8
- Hicks AA, Pramstaller PP, Johansson A, et al on behalf of the EUROSPAN consortium. Genetic determinants of circulating sphingolipid concentrations. PLOS Genetics. (in press)
- Turzyniecka M, Wild SH, Krentz AJ, et al Skeletal muscle microvascular exchange capacity is associated with hyperglycaemia in subjects with central obesity. Diabetic Medicine 2009;26:1112-1119
- Johansson A, Marroni F, et al for the EUROSPAN Consortium. Linkage and Genome-wide Association Analysis of Obesity-related Phenotypes: Association of Weight With the MGAT1 Gene. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2009 Oct 22. [Epub ahead of print]
- Repapi E, Sayers I, Wain LV, et al . Genome-wide association study identifies five loci associated with lung function. Nat Genet. 2010 Jan;42(1):36-44.