P C Elwood

General / Preventive / Lipids

Cardiff University

About

P C Elwood works in General / Preventive / Lipids affiliated with Cardiff University.

Peter Elwood is an epidemiologist at Cardiff University. He qualified in medicine at Queen's University Belfast in 1954 and led the Medical Research Council's Epidemiological Unit in South Wales for over two decades. He initiated the Caerphilly Heart Disease Study in 1979, which investigated the effects of aspirin on heart disease.

Research focus

Antiplatelet TherapyCardiovascular Disease PreventionEpidemiology of Heart DiseaseAspirin in Vascular DiseaseRisk Factors for Ischemic Heart Disease

Impact

405 pubs · 23,373 cites · h-index 66

Training

MD
Queen's University Belfast
1954

Affiliations

Work Experience

Cardiff University

1970 - Present

Medical Research Council's Epidemiological Unit, South Wales

1974 - 1995