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Anthony Joseph Viera

Anthony Joseph Viera

Leonard J. & Margaret Goldwater Distinguished Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health
Family Medicine and Community Health
anthony.viera@duke.edu
CFM, Box 2914 DUMC, Durham, NC 27710
2200 West Main Street, Erwin Square, 4th Floor, Durham, NC 27705

Scholarly Works - Conferences

Cultivating the Physician-Scientist Pipeline in Translational Aging: Early Outcomes from NIA StARR

Conference Innovation in Aging · December 1, 2025 AbstractDespite efforts to increase the clinician-scientist pipeline, fewer physicians or surgeons are pursuing scientific careers, particularly in aging, threatening future advances in care. One critical ... Full text Cite

Enhancing atherosclerosis risk prediction with strategic feature and case selections in large language model

Conference European Heart Journal · November 5, 2025 AbstractIntroductionLarge language models (LLMs) have the potential to realize accurate risk stratification and disease predict ... Full text Cite

1125 Non-Dipping Blood Pressure Is Associated with Sleep Timing in Hypertensive Adults with Insomnia Disorder

Conference SLEEP · May 19, 2025 AbstractIntroductionBlood pressure (BP) dipping during nocturnal sleep is characteristic of a normal circadian BP pattern. A blunted B ... Full text Cite

Impact of primary care usual provider type and provider interdependence on outcomes for patients with diabetes: a cohort study.

Conference BMJ Open Qual · June 2023 BACKGROUND: Interprofessional primary care (PC) teams are key to the provision of high-quality care. PC providers often 'share' patients (eg, a patient may see multiple providers in the same clinic), resulting in between-visit interdependence between provi ... Full text Link to item Cite

Abstract 236: Gender Disparities in Bystander CPR and Defibrillation Persist in Black and Hispanic Neighborhoods in the US

Conference Circulation · November 17, 2020 Introduction: Bystander CPR (B-CPR) and defibrillation for sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) vary by gender with females being less likely to receive these interventions. Despite known differences by race a ... Full text Cite

Abstract P173: The Impact of Asleep Blood Pressure on the Prevalence of Masked Hypertension by Race/ethnicity: Analysis of Pooled Population- and Community-based Studies

Conference Circulation · March 3, 2020 Introduction: Masked hypertension is defined as having hypertensive blood pressure (BP) outside of the office setting among adults with non-hypertensive BP when measured in the office. Some guidelines ... Full text Cite

Comparison of patients' confidence in office, ambulatory, and home blood pressure measurements as methods of assessing for hypertension.

Conference Blood Press Monit · December 2015 OBJECTIVE: Uncertainty exists when relying on office (clinic) blood pressure (BP) measurements to diagnose hypertension. Home BP monitoring and ambulatory BP monitoring (ABPM) provide measurements that are more strongly associated with cardiovascular disea ... Full text Link to item Cite

A retrospective review of performance and utility of routine clinical pelvimetry.

Conference Fam Med · 2004 BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Some authorities have questioned the utility of performing clinical pelvimetry as part of routine prenatal care. This study determined the frequency with which clinical pelvimetry is still performed at two military hospitals and ... Link to item Cite

Thyroid function testing in outpatients: are both sensitive thyrotropin (sTSH) and free thyroxine (FT4) necessary?

Conference Fam Med · June 2003 BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Despite improved thyroid function testing assays, appropriate use of these commonly ordered tests to detect thyroid dysfunction remains controversial. This study determined if a normal sensitive thyroid stimulating hormone (sTSH) ... Link to item Cite