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Zhu-Ming Zhang, M.D., M.P.H.

Zhu-Ming Zhang, M.D., M.P.H.

Assistant Professor, Epidemiology & Prevention

Clinical Specialties

Atherosclerosis, Arrhythmias, Coronary Artery Disease, Electrocardiography, Clinical Trials

Contact Information

Academic: 336-716-0835 | Department: 336-716-2011

Email: zmzhang@wakehealth.edu

Education & Training

  • M.D., Shandong Medical University-China , 2013
  • M.P.H., Beijing Capital Institute In Med-China , 1986
Zhu-Ming Zhang, M.D., M.P.H.

Zhu-Ming Zhang, M.D., M.P.H.

Assistant Professor, Epidemiology & Prevention

Contact Information

Academic: 336-716-0835 | Department: 336-716-2011

Email: zmzhang@wakehealth.edu

Recent Publications

Dawood FZ, Khan F, Roediger MP, Zhang ZM, Swaminathan S, Klinker H, Hoy J, Lundgren JD, Neaton JD, Soliman EZ. Electrocardiographic spatial QRS-T angle and incident cardiovascular disease in HIV-infected patients (from the Strategies for the Management of Antiretroviral Therapy [SMART] study). Am J Cardiol. 2013;111(1):118-124.

Smith JG, Avery CL, Evans DS, Nalls MA, Meng YA, Smith EN, Palmer C, Tanaka T, Mehra R, Butler AM, Young T, Buxbaum SG, Kerr KF, Berenson GS, Schnabel RB, Li G, Ellinor PT, Magnani JW, Chen W, Bis JC, Curb JD, Hsueh WC,. Impact of ancestry and common genetic variants on QT interval in African Americans. Circ Cardiovasc Genet. 2013;5(6):647-655.


Stiles MC, Seaquist ER, Yale JF, Green JB, Katz LA, Kempainen S, Light LS, Pepper PV, Zhang ZM, Soliman EZ. Is silent myocardial infarction more common in women with type 2 diabetes than in men?. J Diabetes Complications. 2012;26(2):118-122.

Zhang ZM, Prineas RJ, Soliman EZ, Baggett C, Heiss G. Prognostic significance of serial Q/ST-T changes by the Minnesota Code and Novacode in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study. Eur J Prev Cardiol. 2012;19(6):1430-1436.

Zhang ZM, Rautaharju PM, Soliman EZ, Manson JE, Cain ME, Martin LW, Bavry AA, Mehta L, Vitolins M, Prineas RJ. Mortality risk associated with bundle branch blocks and related repolarization abnormalities (from the Women's Health Initiative [WHI]). Am J Cardiol. 2012;110(10):1489-1495.

Butler AM, Yin X, Evans DS, Nalls MA, Smith EN, Tanaka T, Li G, Buxbaum SG, Whitsel EA, Alonso A, Arking DE, Benjamin EJ, Berenson GS, Bis JC, Chen W, Deo R, Ellinor PT, Heckbert SR, Heiss G, Hsueh WC, Keating BJ, Kerr KF, Li Y,. Novel loci associated with PR interval in a genome-wide association study of 10 African American cohorts. Circ Cardiovasc Genet. 2012;5(6):639-646.


Gorodeski EZ, Ishwaran H, Kogalur UB, Blackstone EH, Hsich E, Zhang Z-m, Vitolins MZ, Manson JE, Curb JD, Prineas RJ, et al. Use of hundreds of electrocardiographic biomarkers for prediction of mortality in postmenopausal women: the Women's Health Initiative. Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes. 2011;4(5):521-532.

Prineas RJ, Crow RS, Zhang Z-M.


Liao DP, Whitsel E, Duan YK, Lin HM, Quibrera PM, Smith R, Peuquet D, Prineas R, Zhang ZM, Anderson G. Ambient particulate air pollution and ectopy the environmental epidemiology of arrhythmogenesis in Women's Health Initiative Study, 1999-2004. J Toxicol Environ Health A. 2009;72(1):30-38.


Zhang Z-m, Whitsel EA, Quibrera PM, Smith RL, Liao D, Anderson GL, Prineas RJ. Ambient fine particulate matter exposure and myocardial ischemia in the Environmental Epidemiology of Arrhythmogenesis in the Women's Health Initiative (EEAWHI) study. Environ Health Perspect. 2009;117(5):751-756.

Liao Y-T, Li W-F, Chen C-J, Prineas RJ, Chen WJ, Zhang Z-M, Sun C-W, Wang S-L. Synergistic effect of polymorphisms of paraoxonase gene cluster and arsenic exposure on electrocardiogram abnormality. Toxicol Appl Pharmacol. 2009;239(2):178-183.


Whitsel EA, Quibrera PM, Prineas RJ, Zhang Z-m, Liao D, Peuquet DJ, Anderson GL, Catellier DJ, Chen J-C, Smith RL. Ventricular repolarization, systolic hypertension, and ambient particulate air pollution: the Environmental Epidemiology of Arrhythmogenesis in WHI (EEAWHI), 1999-2002 [abstract]. Circulation. 2007;115(8):e256.

Rautaharju PM, Prineas RJ, Zhang Z-M. A simple procedure for estimation of the spatial QRS/T angle from the standard 12-lead electrocardiogram. J Electrocardiol. 2007;40(3):300-304.



Liao D, Whitsel EA, Duan Y, Lin H-M, Quibrera M, Smith RL, Peuquet DJ, Prineas RJ, Zhang Z-M, Anderson G. Ambient particulate air pollution and ectopy--the Environmental Epidemiology of Arrhythmogenesis in WHI (EEAWHI), 1999-2004 [abstract]. Circulation. 2007;116(16 Suppl):785.

Prineas R, McClure L, Zhang ZM, Howard GH, Cushman M. Left ventricular hypertrophy in the stroke belt, contrasted with the rest of the USA: the Reasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) Study [abstract]. Circulation. 2006;114(18 Suppl):629.

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Assistant Professor, Epidemiology & Prevention

Clinical Specialties

Atherosclerosis, Arrhythmias, Coronary Artery Disease, Electrocardiography, Clinical Trials

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