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Amund Gulsvik is affiliated with the University of Bergen in Norway and conducts research primarily in the field of Medicine, with a strong focus on Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Their work also encompasses subfields such as Physiology, Genetics, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Emergency Medical Services.

The scientist's research addresses several main topics, including:

  • Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research
  • Asthma and respiratory diseases
  • Respiratory Support and Mechanisms
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Pediatric health and respiratory diseases
  • Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis

Amund Gulsvik has contributed to several peer-reviewed publications over recent years. Notable papers include:

  • "Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and related phenotypes: polygenic risk scores in population-based and case-control cohorts", 2020, The Lancet Respiratory Medicine
  • "Prevalence and Population-Attributable Risk for Chronic Airflow Obstruction in a Large Multinational Study", 2020, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
  • "Genetic Associations and Architecture of Asthma-COPD Overlap", 2022, CHEST Journal
  • "Genome-Wide Association Studies Identify CHRNA5/3 and HTR4 in the Development of Airflow Obstruction", 2020, UNC Libraries
  • "Respiratory symptoms and mortality in four general population cohorts over 45 years", 2020, Respiratory Medicine

The scientist frequently publishes in specific venues, which include:

  • CHEST Journal
  • Respiratory Medicine
  • UNC Libraries
  • PLoS ONE
  • European Clinical Respiratory Journal

Collaboration is a consistent component of their work, with several frequent co-authors comprising:

  • Per Bakke
  • Rune Nielsen
  • Knut Stavem
  • Ane Johannessen
  • Nick Shrine

Best Publications

  • International variation in the prevalence of COPD (The BOLD Study): a population-based prevalence study

    A Sonia Buist;Mary Ann McBurnie;William M. Vollmer;Suzanne Gillespie

  • Combined salmeterol and fluticasone in the treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a randomised controlled trial.

    Peter Calverley;Romain Pauwels;Jørgen Vestbo;Paul Jones

  • A Genome-Wide Association Study in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD): Identification of Two Major Susceptibility Loci

    Sreekumar G. Pillai;Dongliang Ge;Guohua Zhu;Xiangyang Kong

  • Meta-analysis and imputation refines the association of 15q25 with smoking quantity

    Jason Z. Liu;Federica Tozzi;Dawn M. Waterworth;Sreekumar G. Pillai

  • New genetic signals for lung function highlight pathways and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease associations across multiple ancestries

    Shrine N;Guyatt Al;Erzurumluoglu Am;Jackson Ve;Jackson Ve;Jackson Ve

  • Variants in FAM13A are associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

    Michael H. Cho;Nadia Boutaoui;Barbara J. Klanderman;Jody S. Sylvia

  • Gender differences in COPD: are women more susceptible to smoking effects than men?

    Inga-Cecilie Sørheim;Ane Johannessen;Amund Gulsvik;Per S Bakke

  • Genetic loci associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease overlap with loci for lung function and pulmonary fibrosis

    Brian D. Hobbs;Kim De Jong;Maxime Lamontagne;Yohan Bossé

  • Genetic landscape of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease identifies heterogeneous cell-type and phenotype associations

    Phuwanat Sakornsakolpat;Phuwanat Sakornsakolpat;Dmitry Prokopenko;Dmitry Prokopenko;Maxime Lamontagne;Nicola F Reeve

  • Risk loci for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a genome-wide association study and meta-analysis

    Michael H Cho;Merry-Lynn N McDonald;Xiaobo Zhou;Manuel Mattheisen;Manuel Mattheisen

  • Comparison of spirometry criteria for the diagnosis of COPD: results from the BOLD study.

    W M Vollmer;Thorn Gíslason;P Burney;P L Enright

  • Prevalence of obstructive lung disease in a general population: relation to occupational title and exposure to some airborne agents.

    P S Bakke;V Baste;R Hanoa;A Gulsvik

  • Asthma control in Europe: a real-world evaluation based on an international population-based study

    Lucia Cazzoletti;Alessandro Marcon;Christer Janson;Angelo Corsico

  • Total and specific serum IgE levels in adults: relationship to sex, age and environmental factors

    E. Omenaas;P. Bakke;S. Elsayed;R. Hanoa

  • The cost of persistent asthma in Europe: an international population-based study in adults.

    Simone Accordini;Angelo G. Corsico;Marco Braggion;Margaret W. Gerbase

  • Genome-wide association analyses for lung function and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease identify new loci and potential druggable targets

    Louise V. Wain;Louise V. Wain;Nick Shrine;María Soler Artigas;A. Mesut Erzurumluoglu

  • Cigarette smoking gives more respiratory symptoms among women than among men The Nord-Trøndelag Health Study (HUNT)

    Arnulf Langhammer;Roar Johnsen;Jostein Holmen;A Gulsvik

  • A genome-wide association study of COPD identifies a susceptibility locus on chromosome 19q13

    Michael H. Cho;Peter J. Castaldi;Emily S. Wan;Mateusz Siedlinski

  • Genetic landscape of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease identifies heterogeneous cell-type and phenotype associations

    Phuwanat Sakornsakolpat;Dmitry Prokopenko;Maxime Lamontagne;Nicola F. Reeve

  • Prevalence ofobstructive lungdisease inageneral population: relation tooccupational title and exposuretosome airborne agents

    Valborg Baste;Amund Gulsvik

Frequent Co-Authors

Per Bakke
Per Bakke University of Bergen
Edwin K. Silverman
Edwin K. Silverman Brigham and Women's Hospital
Geir Egil Eide
Geir Egil Eide University of Bergen
Michael H. Cho
Michael H. Cho Harvard University
David A. Lomas
David A. Lomas University College London
James D. Crapo
James D. Crapo National Jewish Health
Terri H. Beaty
Terri H. Beaty Johns Hopkins University
Dawn L. DeMeo
Dawn L. DeMeo Brigham and Women's Hospital
Ruth Tal-Singer
Ruth Tal-Singer GlaxoSmithKline (United Kingdom)
David Sparrow
David Sparrow Boston University

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