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• workRoom 1404, Floor 14 Tower Building
  University Park
  Nottingham
  NG7 2RD
  UK
• work0115 74 86834
• Ralph.Akyea1@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

I am a PhD student and Research Associate within the Primary Care Stratified Medicine Research Group.

I obtained my undergraduate degree in Medicine from the University of Ghana, before undertaking postgraduate training in Public Health (MPH) with the University of Nottingham.

Expertise Summary

"Big Data" Research, Applied Epidemiology, Applied Statistics, Risk Prediction Modeling, Stratified/Precision Medicine, Public Health Research

Recent Publications

• AKYEA, R., KAI, J., QURESHI, N., IYEN, B. and WENG, S.F., 2019. Sub-optimal cholesterol response to initiation of statins and future risk of cardiovascular disease. Heart. 105(13), 975-981
• PATEL, M., LEE, S.I., AKYEA, R.K., GRINDLAY, D., FRANCIS, N., LEVELL, N.J., SMART, P., KAI, J. and THOMAS, K.S., 2019. A systematic review showing the lack of diagnostic criteria and tools developed for lower limb cellulitis. British Journal of Dermatology. Accepted Manuscript Online: 7 March 2019,
• WENG, S.F., KAI, J., AKYEA, R. and QURESHI,N., 2019. Detection of familial hypercholesterolaemia: external validation of a clinical case-finding approach in a retrospective primary care cohort study. Lancet Public Health. 4(5), e256-e264
• AKYEA, R. K., MCKEEVER, T.M., GIBSON, J., SCULLION, J.E. and BOLTON, C.E., 2019. Predicting fracture risk in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a UK-based population-based cohort study BMJ Open. 9(4), e024951

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• AKYEA, R., KAI, J., QURESHI, N., IYEN, B. and WENG, S.F., 2019. Sub-optimal cholesterol response to initiation of statins and future risk of cardiovascular disease. Heart. 105(13), 975-981
• PATEL, M., LEE, S.I., AKYEA, R.K., GRINDLAY, D., FRANCIS, N., LEVELL, N.J., SMART, P., KAI, J. and THOMAS, K.S., 2019. A systematic review showing the lack of diagnostic criteria and tools developed for lower limb cellulitis. British Journal of Dermatology. Accepted Manuscript Online: 7 March 2019,
• WENG, S.F., KAI, J., AKYEA, R. and QURESHI,N., 2019. Detection of familial hypercholesterolaemia: external validation of a clinical case-finding approach in a retrospective primary care cohort study. Lancet Public Health. 4(5), e256-e264
• AKYEA, R. K., MCKEEVER, T.M., GIBSON, J., SCULLION, J.E. and BOLTON, C.E., 2019. Predicting fracture risk in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a UK-based population-based cohort study BMJ Open. 9(4), e024951
• AKYEA, R.A., KAI, J., QURESHI, N., HAMID, H.A. and WENG, S.F., 2019. Secondary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease: Time to Rethink Stratification of Disease Severity? European Journal of Preventive Cardiology. Article first published online: 15 May 2019
• IYEN, B., QURESHI, N., KAI, J., AKYEA, R., LEONARDI-BEE, J., RODERICK, P., HUMPHRIES, S.E. and WENG, S., 2019. Risk of cardiovascular disease outcomes in primary care subjects with familial hypercholesterolaemia: a cohort study. Atherosclerosis. 287, 8-15
• AKYEA, R.K., KAI, J., QURESHI, N., IYEN, B. and WENG, S.F., 2019. LDL cholesterol response to statins and future risk of cardiovascular disease. Heart. 105(16), 1290-1291
• BUSS, L., MCKEEVER, T. M., NIGHTINGALE, J., AKYEA, R., OLLIVERE, B., MOPPETT, I. K. and BOLTON, C. E., 2018. Hip fracture outcomes in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease British Journal of Anaesthesia. 121(6), 1377-1379
• OFFOR UGONNA T., AKYEA RALPH K., NEEQUAYE JANET E., RENNER LORNA A. and SEGBEFIA CATHERINE I., The changing clinical pattern of endemic Burkitt lymphoma in Western Africa: Experience from a tertiary center in Ghana Pediatric Blood & Cancer. 0(0), e27275