Gaurav Parmar
University of Alabama at Birmingham
16 Papers
91 Citations
Gaurav Parmar is an academic researcher from University of Alabama at Birmingham. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Hazard ratio. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 13 publications.
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Papers
Agreement on Cause of Death Between Proxies, Death Certificates, and Clinician Adjudicators in the Reasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) Study
Jewell H. Halanych,Faisal Shuaib,Gaurav Parmar,Rajasekhar Tanikella,Virginia J. Howard,David L. Roth,Ronald J. Prineas,Monika M. Safford +7 more
TL;DR: The authors examined death records on 336 participants in theREGARDS Study, a national cohort study of 30,239 community-dwelling US adults, to computed agreement on cause of death from the death certificate, proxy, and adjudication, as well as sensitivity and specificity for certain diseases.
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Health Professional Shortage Areas, Insurance Status, and Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in the Reasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) Study
Todd M. Brown,Gaurav Parmar,Raegan W. Durant,Jewell H. Halanych,Martha Hovater,Paul Muntner,Ronald J. Prineas,David L. Roth,Tandaw E. Samdarshi,Monika M. Safford +9 more
TL;DR: Less medication use for CVD prevention was not associated with HPSA status, but less statin use was associated with lack of insurance, compared with insured individuals living in non-HPSA counties.
Long-term single institution comparison of endovascular aneurysm repair and open aortic aneurysm repair
Brent E. Quinney,Gaurav Parmar,Shardul B. Nagre,Mark A. Patterson,Marc A. Passman,Steve M. Taylor,James A. Chambers,William D. Jordan +7 more
TL;DR: EVAR requires more late secondary vascular interventions than open AAA repair, but patients who undergo open repair have more nonvascular long-term morbidity andLong-term survival is better after EVAR compared to open repair in this selected patient group.
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Hospital laboratory reporting may be a barrier to detection of ‘microsize’ myocardial infarction in the US: an observational study
Monika M. Safford,Gaurav Parmar,Codrin S Barasch,Jewell H. Halanych,Stephen P. Glasser,David C. Goff,Ronald J. Prineas,Todd M. Brown +7 more
TL;DR: Current practices in many US hospitals created barriers to the clinical recognition of microsize MI, which was common and clinically important in this study.
Statin use improves limb salvage after intervention for peripheral arterial disease.
Gaurav Parmar,Zdenek Novak,Emily L. Spangler,Mark A. Patterson,Marc A. Passman,Adam W. Beck,Benjamin J. Pearce +6 more
TL;DR: Statin use in patients with PAD with interventions was associated with improved limb salvage and survival, and efforts are ongoing to increase their use across the health care system.
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