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Dr Olga Vikhireva

  • Extension:

    41725

  • Email:

    o.vikhireva@ucl.ac.uk

  • Appointments:

    Research Associate, Epidemiology & Public Health, Institute of Epidemiology & Health

Summary

I graduated with an MD from the Omsk State Medical Academy, Russia, and then completed the Clinical Internship and Residence programme in Internal Disease at the same institution. My postgraduate studies and further research work (2000-2007) were in preventive cardiology at the State Research Centre for Preventive Medicine in Moscow, where I conducted a study on the randomised vs. free-choice admission of nicotine gum/inhaler in smoking cessation/reduction as a part of my PhD. I also initiated and conducted a series of tobacco control seminars for Russian doctors, supported by the American Cancer Society and International Union against Cancer (2003-2004). In 2006-2007, I participated as a senior researcher in the pilot SAHR (Survey on Stress, Aging, and Health) study, in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research and Duke University and with the support of the National Institute on Aging.

 

In 2007, I was awarded the UCL Shell Centenary Chevening Scholarship, to attend the MSc course “Health and Society: Social Epidemiology”, which I completed with distinction. In 2008, I was awarded the UCL Overseas Research Student scholarship and a departmental studentship and started my full-time PhD on cardiovascular risk prediction in the populations of Central and Eastern Europe and former Soviet Union. Throughout the PhD, I provided research assistance for the HAPIEE study. HAPIEE (Health, Alcohol, and Psychological factors in Eastern Europe) is an ongoing population cohort study of over 35,000 men and women from the Czech Republic, Poland, Russia, and Lithuania, supported by the Wellcome Trust and the National Institute on Aging. After successfully completing my PhD in 2012, I continue to work with the Central and Eastern European Health Research Group. I am a member of the European Society of Cardiology and the European Association for Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation.

Research Summary

I investigate the performance of existing instruments for cardiovascular risk prediction, as well as the potential of adding new risk determinants to prognostic models, using available prospective data, with a focus on Central and Eastern European populations.

My other areas of interest include epidemiology of cardiovascular disease and risk factors, as well as tobacco control, in particular smoking cessation and reduction.

My long-standing interest is the whole spectrum of individual and population-level determinants of health and disease, and specifically the factors which shape health behaviours, make healthy lifestyle sustainable, and translate into positive health outcomes.

Research Activities

  • Alcohol Research
  • Behaviour change
  • Cardiovascular disease
  • Epidemiology of cardiovascular disease
  • Health behaviours
  • Risk stratification (prediction) of cardiovascular disease

Recent Publications

Displaying 46 most recent publications. For the full list please visit UCL Discovery

  1. Vikhireva O,Vojtisek P,Gafarov V,Pajak A,Tamosiunas A,Kubinova R,Malyutina S,Bobak M (2013) Cardiac troponins and acute myocardial infarction diagnosis in four countries of Central and Eastern Europe and former Soviet Union: the HAPIEE study.
  2. Vikhireva O,Broda G,Kubinova R,Malyutina S,Pajak A,Tamosiunas A,Nikitin Y,Simonova G,Bobak M,Pikhart H (2013) Does the SCORE extension by socioeconomic parameters and hazardous drinking characteristics improve cardiovascular risk prediction? MONICA and HAPIEE findings.
  3. Vikhireva O (2012) Cardiovascular risk prediction in Central and Eastern Europe and former Soviet Union.
  4. Vikhireva O (2012) Every unhealthy population is unhealthy in its own way; population risk assessment: common and specific challenges. J Epidemiol Community Health, 66(10), 857 - 858. 10.1136/jech-2012-201231.
  5. Vikhireva O,Broda G,Kubinova R,Malyutina S,Pajak A,Tamosiunas A,Bobak M,Pikhart H (2011) SCORE performance in Central and Eastern Europe and former Soviet Union: MONICA and HAPIEE results.
  6. Vikhireva O,Broda G,Kubinova R,Malyutina S,Pajak A,Tamosiunas A,Bobak M,Pikhart H (2011) SCORE performance and education in Central and Eastern Europe and former Soviet Union: evidence from MONICA and HAPIEE studies.
  7. Vikhireva O,Pikhart H,Pajak A,Kubinova R,Malyutina S,Peasey A,Topor-Madry R,Nikitin Y,Marmot M,Bobak M (2010) Non-fatal injuries in three Central and Eastern European urban population samples: the HAPIEE study. Eur J Public Health, 20(6), 695 - 701. 10.1093/eurpub/ckp193.
  8. Vikhireva O (2008) Injury morbidity in Central and Eastern Europe: socioeconomic inequalities and role of alcohol.
  9. Vikhireva OV (2007) Modern methods of tobacco dependence treatment.
  10. Vikhireva OV (2007) Addressing tobacco and alcohol in CVD prevention.
  11. Shalnova SA,Deev AD,Vikhireva OV (2007) Resting heart rate as a coronary heart disease and total mortality predictor in Russian men with different CHD status.
  12. Vikhireva OV,Shalnova SA (2007) Health professional society’s role in regulating professional activity: experience of the Russian National Cardiology Society.
  13. Shalnova SA,Deev AD,Vikhireva OV (2007) Arterial hypertension: ambulatory patients’ point of view. First results of GARANT Study Cardiovascular Therapy and Prevention, 5, 30 - 33.
  14. Shalnova SA,Vikhireva OV (2007) New advances in treating patients with arterial hypertension and diabetes mellitus Cardiovascular Therapy and Prevention, 6, 98 - 102.
  15. Vikhireva OV (2006) Web Surveys on Cardiosite – Official Website of the Society of Cardiology of the Russian Federation.
  16. Vikhireva O,Shalnova S,Deev A (2006) Nicotine Replacement-Assisted Smoking Cessation: Fighting the Myths Common in Smokers.
  17. Vikhireva OV (2006) Quit and Win – National Campaigns to stimulate the motivation for smoking cessation. What is the evidence?.
  18. Vikhireva O,Shalnova S,Deev A (2006) To Involve Doctors into Tobacco Control Is Possible – Just Ask Them First!.
  19. Vikhireva OV (2006) Socio-cultural barriers for promotion of physical activity among women.
  20. Vikhireva OV,Shalnova SA,Deev AD (2006) Smoking as a Cardiovascular Risk Factor: Russian Doctors’ View.
  21. Vikhireva OV,Shalnova SA,Deev AD (2005) Tobacco dependence treatment with nicotine replacement therapy as one of the methods for cardiovascular disease risk reduction Rational Pharmacotherapy in Cardiology, 1, 24 - 30.
  22. Vikhireva OV,Levshin VF,Kalinina AM,Radkevich NV,Shalnova SA,Deev AD (2005) Training Russian Doctors on modern cessation assistance methods: lessons and perspectives.
  23. Shal'nova SA,Deev AD,Oganov RG,Konstantinov VV,Kapustina AV,Vikhireva OV,Davydova SS,Gavrilova NE (2005) [Pulse rate and cardiovascular mortality of men and women in Russia. Results of epidemiological studies]. Kardiologiia, 45(10), 45 - 50.
  24. Vikhireva O,Levshin V,Radkevich N,Kalinina A,Shalnova S,Deev A (2005) Taking Smoking Out of the Shadow: Tobacco Control Educational and Training Workshops for Russian Doctors.
  25. Vikhireva O,Shalnova S,Deev A,Levshin V,Radkevich N,Kalinina A (2005) NRT-assisted cessation in Russia: individual and population-level benefits.
  26. Vikhireva OV (2005) What can be done: a view from Russia. Round Table “Tackling Tobacco Consumption in Transitional Countries”.
  27. Vikhireva OV,Levshin VF,Radkevich NV,Kalinina AM,Shalnova SA,Deev AD (2004) Experience of training program for doctors on modern methods of smoking cessation assistance.
  28. Vikhireva OV,Levshin VF,Radkevich NV,Kalinina AM,Shalnova SA,Deev AD (2004) Tobacco Control Educational and Training Workshops for Russian Doctors: from neglection to action.
  29. Vikhireva O,Shalnova S,Alexandrov A,Levshin V,Deev A (2004) Problem of smoking from Russian doctors’ point of view: no one’s land or a manageable risk factor?.
  30. Lukina YV,Martsevich SY,Kutishenko NP,Shalnova SA,Vikhireva OV (2004) Lung function dynamics in smoking and non-smoking patients with stable effort angina, treated with beta-adrenoblockers Russian Journal of Cardiology, 2, 41 - 44.
  31. Vikhireva OV,Shalnova SA,Deev AD (2003) NRT in Russia: from impressions to our own results and practice. Randomized parallel study of nicotine gum/inhaler in smoking cessation/reduction.
  32. Vikhireva O (2003) Smoking as a cardiovascular risk factor: scope of the problem, and the role of tobacco dependence treatment in controlling it (review). Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, 4, 21 - 27.
  33. Alexandrov A,Shalnova S,Vikhireva O (2003) Smoking prevalence in Moscow teachers.
  34. Vikhireva O,Shalnova S,Deev A (2003) Nicotine replacement therapy in Russia: old wine in new skins? Randomised parallel study of nicotine gum/inhaler in smoking cessation/reduction.
  35. Vikhireva OV,Shalnova SA,Deev AD (2003) NRT in Russia. Randomized parallel study of nicotine gum and inhaler in smoking cessation.
  36. Shalnova SA,Vikhireva OV (2003) Pharmacotherapy of tobacco smoking. In: Organizing assistance for smokers willing to quit, 48 - 60.
  37. Vikhireva OV (2003) Tobacco dependence treatment with nicotine replacement therapy as one of the methods for cardiovascular disease risk reduction.
  38. Shalnova SA,Vikhireva OV (2003) Modern pharmacological methods in tobacco addiction treatment. Clinical guidelines for physicians.
  39. Vikhireva O (2002) NRT in Russia: first evidence-based experience.
  40. Alexandrov AA,Shalnova SA,Deev AD,Vikhireva OV,Vaganov AD,Alexandri AL (2002) Smoking prevalence in Moscow teachers Questions of Narcology, 4, 61 - 65.
  41. Vikhireva OV (2002) Modern pharmacological methods in tobacco addiction treatment Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, 3, 35 - 43.
  42. Vikhireva O,Alexandrov A,Shalnova S,Deev A,Vaganov A (2002) Smoking prevalence in Moscow physicians: is being a doctor no protective?.
  43. Alexandrov AA,Shalnova SA,Deev AD,Vikhireva OV,Vaganov AD,Rubchenko YA (2001) Smoking prevalence in Moscow physicians Questions of Narcology, 3, 67 - 71.
  44. Shalnova SA,Deev AD,Vikhireva OV,Gavrilova NE,Oganov RG (2001) Prevalence of essential hypertension in Russia. Awareness, treatment, monitoring Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, 3, 3 - 7.
  45. Shalnova SA,Vikhireva OV (2001) Smoking prevention on individual level, 79 - 89.
  46. Vikhireva OV,Shalnova SA (2001) Smoking and doctors. State-of-the-art (review) Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, 2, 43 - 47.

Biography

I graduated with an MD from the Omsk State Medical Academy, Russia, and then completed the Clinical Internship and Residence programme in Internal Disease at the same institution. My postgraduate studies and further research work (2000-2007) were in preventive cardiology at the State Research Centre for Preventive Medicine in Moscow, where I conducted a study on the randomised vs. free-choice admission of nicotine gum/inhaler in smoking cessation/reduction as a part of my PhD. I also initiated and conducted a series of tobacco control seminars for Russian doctors, supported by the American Cancer Society and International Union against Cancer (2003-2004). In 2006-2007, I participated as a senior researcher in the pilot SAHR (Survey on Stress, Aging, and Health) study, in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research and Duke University and with the support of the National Institute on Aging.

 

In 2007, I was awarded the UCL Shell Centenary Chevening Scholarship, to attend the MSc course “Health and Society: Social Epidemiology”, which I completed with distinction. In 2008, I was awarded the UCL Overseas Research Student scholarship and a departmental studentship and started my full-time PhD on cardiovascular risk prediction in the populations of Central and Eastern Europe and former Soviet Union. Throughout the PhD, I provided research assistance for the HAPIEE study. HAPIEE (Health, Alcohol, and Psychological factors in Eastern Europe) is an ongoing population cohort study of over 35,000 men and women from the Czech Republic, Poland, Russia, and Lithuania, supported by the Wellcome Trust and the National Institute on Aging. After successfully completing my PhD in 2012, I continue to work with the Central and Eastern European Health Research Group. I am a member of the European Society of Cardiology and the European Association for Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation.

Qualifications

  • 2012: Doctor of Philosophy, University College London
  • 2008: Master of Science, University College London
  • 2003: Doctor of Philosophy, State Research Centre for Preventive Medicine
  • 1997: Doctor of Medicine, Omsk State Medical Academy