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MRC Biostatistics Unit,
Institute of Public Health,
University Forvie Site,
Robinson Way,
Cambridge. UK.
CB2 0SR

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Research Interests:

My research interests are in relational database design and implementation for longitudinal study, data management, data archive and survival analysis in randomised trials.

Selected Recent Publications:

Thompson SG, Ashton HA, Gao L, Scott RAP (2009). Screening for abdominal aortic aneurysm: ten-year mortality and cost-effectiveness results from the UK MASS randomised trial. BMJ 338:b2307

Gao, L; Matthews, F E; Sargeant, L A; Brayne, C (2008). An investigation of the population impact of variation in HbA1c levels in older people in England and Wales: From a population based multi-centre longitudinal study. BMC Public Health, 8

Greenhalgh, R M; Belch, J J; Brown, L C; Gaines, P A; Gao, L; Reise, J A; Thompson, S G (2008). The adjuvant benefit of angioplasty in patients with mild to moderate intermittent claudication (MIMIC) managed by supervised exercise, smoking cessation advice and best medical therapy: results from two randomised trials for stenotic femoropopliteal and aortoiliac arterial disease. European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, 36, 680-688

Ashton, H A; Gao, L; Kim, L G; Druce, P S; Thompson, S G; Scott, R A (2007). Fifteen-year follow-up of a randomized clinical trial of ultrasonographic screening for abdominal aortic aneurysms. Br.J.Surg., 94, 696-701.

Brayne, C; Gao, L; Dewey, M; Matthews, F E; MRC CFAS Study Investigators, (2006). Dementia before death in ageing societies-the promise of prevention and the reality. PLoS.Med., 3, e397.