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Eyal Shahar MD, MPH

Professor Emeritus

Epidemiology and Biostatistics Department

1295 N. Martin
Drachman Hall A236
PO Box: 245211
Tucson AZ 85724

http://www.u.arizona.edu/~shahar/index.html

Biography

Eyal Shahar, MD, MPH. Dr. Shahar’s research focuses on subject matter epidemiology and methodology. His epidemiological research over the past twenty years has encompassed many aspects of cardiovascular disease, including surveillance and causes of coronary heart disease, heart failure, and stroke. Most of his work involves collaboration on multi-center cohort studies. Currently, he is a co-investigator of the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study, the Jackson Heart Study (JHS), and the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA), all of which are funded by the National Institutes of Health/National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NIH/NHLBI). Previously, Dr. Shahar was one of the Principal Investigators of the Sleep Heart Health Study (SHHS), a multi-center study of the relation between sleep apnea (abnormal breathing during sleep) and cardiovascular disease. In recent years, Dr. Shahar has also made significant contributions to research methodology, especially in the domain of causal diagrams and biases.

Teaching interests:

Dr. Shahar has developed and taught two courses in a sequence of three courses on epidemiological methods, including online offering of one course. In recent years, he taught a total of 9 credits per year to about 100 students each year. He is now developing a new course on causal diagrams and bias in epidemiological research.

Research Interests:

Cardiovascular disease
Sleep-disordered breathing
Bias in epidemiological research
Causal diagrams

Education:

1987 M.D., Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

1992 M.P.H. Epidemiology, Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota

Selected Publications (of about 170):

Shahar E, Folsom AR, Melnick SL, Tockman MS, Comstock GW, Gennaro V, Higgins MW, Sorlie PD, Ko W-J, Szklo M for the ARIC Study Investigators: Dietary n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids and smoking-related chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. N Engl J Med 1994;331:228-33.
Shahar E, McGovern PG, Sprafka JM, et al: Improved survival of stroke patients during the 1980s: The Minnesota Stroke Survey. Stroke 1995;26:1-6.
Shahar E, Folsom AR, Salomaa VV, Stinson VL, McGovern PG, Shimakawa T, Chambless LE, Wu KK: Relation of hormone-replacement therapy to measures of plasma fibrinolytic activity. Circulation 1996;93:1970-5
Rosamond WD, Folsom AR, Chambless LE, Wang CH, McGovern PG, Howard G, Cooper LS, Shahar E. Stroke incidence and survival among middle-aged adults: 9-year follow-up of the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Cohort. Stroke 1999;30:736-43
Nieto FJ, Young T, Lind B, Shahar E, Samet J, Redline S, D’Agostino R, Newman A, Lebowitz MD, Pickering TG: Association of sleep-disordered breathing, sleep apnea, and hypertension in a large community-based study. JAMA 2000;283:1829-36
Shahar E, Whitney CW, Redline S, Lee ET, Newman AB, Nieto FJ, O'Connor GT, Boland LL, Schwartz JE, Samet JM: Sleep-disordered breathing and cardiovascular disease: Cross-sectional results of the Sleep Heart Health Study. Am J Respir Crit Care ed 2001;163:19-25
Young T, Shahar E, Nieto FJ, Redline S, Newman AB, Gottleib DJ, Walsleben JA, Finn L, Enright P, Samet JM: Predictors of sleep-disordered breathing in community-dwelling adults: The Sleep Heart Health Study. Arch Intern Med 2002;162:893-900
Shahar E, Chambless LE, Rosamond WD, Boland LL, Ballantyne CM, McGovern PG, Sharrett AR: Plasma lipid profile and incident ischemic stroke: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study. Stroke 2003;34(3):623-31
Shahar E, Lee S, Kim J, et al: Hospitalized heart failure: rates and long-term mortality. J of Cardiac Failure 2004;10:374-379.
10. Shahar E, Heiss G, Rosamond WD, Szklo M: Baldness and myocardial infarction in men: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study. Am J Epidemiol 2008;167:676-83
O’Connor GT, Caffo B, Newman AB, Quan SF, Rapoport DM, Redline S, Resnick H, Samet J, Shahar E. Prospective study of sleep-disordered breathing and hypertension: The Sleep Heart Health Study. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2009;179(12):1159-64.
Gottlieb DJ, Yenokyan G, Newman AB, O’Connor GT, Punjabi NM, Quan SF, Redline S, Resnick HE, Tong EK , Diener-West M, Shahar E. Prospective study of obstructive sleep apnea and incident coronary heart disease and heart failure: The Sleep Heart Health Study. Circulation 2010;122:352-60.
Shahar E, Shahar DJ: Causal diagrams, information bias, and thought bias. Pragmatic and Observational Research, 2010;1:33–47.
Shahar E, Shahar DJ: Causal diagrams and three pairs of biases. In: Epidemiology –Current Perspectives on Research and Practice (Lunet N, Editor). www.intechopen.com/books/epidemiology-current-perspectives-on-research-and-practice, 2012:pp. 31-62.
Shahar E, Shahar DJ. Causal diagrams and the logic of matched case-control studies. Clin Epidemiol 2012;4:137-144.
Shahar E, Shahar DJ. Causal diagrams and the cross-sectional study. Clin Epidemiol (2013, in press)