Anne Sillars

Dr. Anne Sillars is an Honorary Clinical Lecturer at the University of Glasgow's School of Cardiovascular & Metabolic Health. She specializes in cardiovascular health, diabetes management, and epidemiological research with a focus on sex-based differences in heart failure risk and lipid abnormalities in diabetic populations. Her work leverages large-scale datasets like the UK Biobank to study biomarkers, physical fitness, and metabolic health correlations.

Research interests include:

• Cardiovascular risk factors in diabetes
• Sex disparities in cardiometabolic outcomes
• Exercise physiology and biomarker analysis
• Population-level health disparities

Recent studies explore HDL composition in athletes, DGAT enzyme roles in muscle cells, and the predictive value of grip strength across multiple health outcomes. Her 2019 BMJ paper demonstrated grip strength's universal prognostic value across demographic groups.

Current grants include NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde funding for studying diabetes-related cardiovascular risks (2024-2025). Collaborations focus on multi-ethnic health comparisons and longitudinal cohort analyses.

Labs and teams include collaborations with the University of Glasgow's cardiovascular epidemiology and metabolic health research groups.