Prof. Abraham
Thomas
Henry Ford
Hospital, USA
Email:
athomas3@hfhs.org
Qualifications
2004 M.P.H.,
Harvard School of Public Health, USA
1989 M.D.,
Columbia University, USA
1985 A.B.,
Columbia University, USA
Publications
(Selected)
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Bing Wang1, Rickey
E Carter1, Miran A Jaffa1,2, Sashidhar Nakerakanti1, Daniel Lackland1, Maria
Lopes-Virella1, Maria Trojanowska1, Louis M Luttrell1, Ayad A Jaffa1,3The
DCCT/EDIC Study Group. Genetic variant in the promoter of connective tissue
growth factor gene confers susceptibility to nephropathy in type 1 diabetes. J
Med Genet 2010; 47:391-397.
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Miller, ME,
Bonds DE, Gerstein, HC, et.al. The effects of baseline characteristics,
glycaemia treatment approach, and glycated haemoglobin concentration on the
risk of severe hypoglycaemia: post hoc epidemiological analysis of the ACCORD
study.BMJ 2010;340:b5444.
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White NH, Sun
W, Cleary PA, Tamborlane WV, Danis RP, Hainsworth DP, Davis MD; DCCT-EDIC
Research Group. Effect of prior intensive therapy in type 1 diabetes on 10-year
progression of retinopathy in the DCCT/EDIC: comparison of adults and
adolescents. Diabetes. 2010 May;59(5):1244-53. Epub 2010 Feb 11.
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The ACCORD
Study Group. Effects of Intensive Blood-Pressure Control in Type 2 Diabetes
Mellitus. N Engl J Med 2010; 362:1575-1585 April 29, 2010.
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Matthew C.
Riddle, MD1, Walter T. Ambrosius, PHD2, David J. Brillon, MD3, et al. for the
Action to Control Cardiovascular Risk in Diabetes (ACCORD) Investigators*
Epidemiologic Relationships Between A1C and All-Cause Mortality During a Median
3.4-Year Follow-up of Glycemic Treatment in the ACCORD TrialDiabetes Care May
2010 vol. 33 no. 5 983-990.
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Richard L.
Kleina, b, Rickey E. Carterc, Alicia J. Jenkinsa, d,
e, Timothy J. Lyonse, Nathaniel L. Bakerc, Gregory E. Gilbertc, Gabriel
Virellaf, Maria F. Lopes-Virellaa, b and the DCCT/EDIC Research Groupg
LDL-containing immune complexes in the DCCT/EDIC cohort: associations with
lipoprotein subclasses. Journal of Diabetes and its Complications. Available
online June 2010.
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Pop-Busui R,
Evans GW, Gerstein HC, Fonseca V, Fleg JL, Hoogwerf BJ, Genuth S, Grimm RH,
Corson MA, Prineas R; Action to Control Cardiovascular Risk in Diabetes Study
Group.Effects of cardiac autonomic dysfunction on mortality risk in the Action
to Control Cardiovascular Risk in Diabetes (ACCORD) trial. Diabetes Care. 2010
Jul;33(7):1578-84.
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Faramarz.
Ismail-Beigi, Timothy. Craven, Mary Ann. Banerji, Jan. Basile, Jorge. Calles,
Robert M. Cohen, Robert. Cuddihy, William C. Cushman, Saul. Genuth, Richard H.
Grimm Jr, et al. Effect of intensive treatment of hyperglycaemia on
microvascular outcomes in type 2 diabetes: an analysis of the ACCORD randomised
trial. The Lancet, Volume 376, Issue 9739, Pages 419-430, August 7, 2010.
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Aruna V.
Sarma, Alka M. Kanaya, Leroy M. Nyberg, John W. Kusek, Eric Vittinghoff, Brandy
Rutledge, Patricia A. Cleary, Patricia Gatcomb, Jeanette S. Brown, Diabetes
Control and Complications Trial/Epidemiology of Diabetes Interventions and
Complications Research Group. Urinary Incontinence among Women with Type 1
Diabetes: How common is it? Journal of Urology, 2009, 181:1224-1230.
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C.A. Czaja,
B.N. Rutledge, P.A. Cleary, K. Chan, A.E. Stapleton, W.E. Stamm, Diabetes
Control and Complications Trial/Epidemiology of Diabetes Interventions and
Complications Research Group. Urinary Tract Infections in Women With Type 1
Diabetes Mellitus: Survey of Female Participants in the Epidemiology of
Diabetes Interventions and Complications Study Cohort. Journal of Urology, 2009,
181:1129-1135.
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Rodica
Pop-Busui, MD, PhD; Phillip A. Low, MD; Barbara H. Waberski, MS; Catherine L.
Martin, MS; James W. Albers, MD, PhD; Eva L. Feldman, MD, PhD; Catherine
Sommer; Patricia A. Cleary, MS; John M. Lachin, ScD; William H. Herman, MD, MPH,
for the DCCT/EDIC Research Group. Effects of Prior Intensive Insulin Therapy on
Cardiac Autonomic Nervous System Function in Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus.The
Diabetes Control and Complications Trial/Epidemiology of Diabetes Interventions
and Complications Study (DCCT/EDIC). Circulation. 2009;119:2886-2893.
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Pezzolesi MG,
Poznik GD, Mychaleckyj JC, Paterson AD, Barati MT, Klein JB, Ng DP, Placha G,
Canani LH, Bochenski J, Waggott D, Merchant ML, Krolewski B, Mirea L, Wanic K,
Katavetin P, Kure M, Wolkow P, Dunn JS, Smiles A, Walker WH, Boright AP, Bull
SB; DCCT/EDIC Research Group, Doria A, Rogus JJ, Rich SS, Warram JH, Krolewski
AS. Genome-wide association scan for diabetic nephropathy susceptibility genes
in type 1 diabetes. Diabetes. 2009 Jun;58(6):1403-10. Epub 2009 Feb 27.