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Anders Engeland is affiliated with the Norwegian Institute of Public Health in Norway. Their research primarily focuses on medicine with significant contributions in oncology, pediatrics, perinatology, and child health. The scientist's work also covers public health, environmental and occupational health, psychiatry and mental health, and obstetrics and gynecology.

The research topics addressed by Engeland include:

  • Cancer Risks and Factors
  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • Cancer, Lipids, and Metabolism
  • Pregnancy and Medication Impact
  • Cardiovascular Issues in Pregnancy

Anders Engeland's recent publications demonstrate a focus on psychiatric and neurological health as well as medication safety during pregnancy. Selected papers include:

  • "Male to female ratios in autism spectrum disorders by age, intellectual disability and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder," 2021, published in Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica
  • "Comparative Safety of Antiseizure Medication Monotherapy for Major Malformations," 2022, published in Annals of Neurology
  • "Antipsychotic drug use in pregnancy: A multinational study from ten countries," 2020, published in Schizophrenia Research
  • "ADHD medication discontinuation and persistence across the lifespan: a retrospective observational study using population-based databases," 2023, published in The Lancet Psychiatry
  • "Metabolically (un)healthy obesity and risk of obesity-related cancers: a pooled study," 2023, published in JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as the International Journal of Cancer, British Journal of Cancer, BMC Psychiatry, International Journal of Epidemiology, and Pain.

Frequent coauthors with whom Engeland has collaborated include:

  • Tone Bjørge
  • Kari Klungsøyr
  • Mika Gissler
  • Kari Furu
  • Ingrid Glimelius

Best Publications

  • Cardiovascular disease, chronic kidney disease, and diabetes mortality burden of cardiometabolic risk factors from 1980 to 2010: a comparative risk assessment.

    Goodarz Danaei;Yuan Lu;Gitanjali M. Singh;Emily Carnahan

  • β2-Adrenoreceptor is a regulator of the α-synuclein gene driving risk of Parkinson’s disease

    Shuchi Mittal;Kjetil Bjørnevik;Kjetil Bjørnevik;Doo Soon Im;Adrian Flierl

  • Body Mass Index in Adolescence in Relation to Cause-specific Mortality: A Follow-up of 230,000 Norwegian Adolescents

    Tone Bjørge;Anders Engeland;Anders Engeland;Aage Tverdal;George Davey Smith

  • Obesity in adolescence and adulthood and the risk of adult mortality.

    Anders Engeland;Tone Bjørge;Aage Tverdal;Anne Johanne Søgaard

  • Work-related Cancer in the Nordic Countries

    Aage Andersen;Lotti Barlow;Anders Engeland;Kristina Kjærheim

  • Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors during pregnancy and risk of persistent pulmonary hypertension in the newborn: population based cohort study from the five Nordic countries

    Helle Kieler;Miia Artama;Anders Engeland;Orjan Ericsson

  • Body Mass Index in Adolescence in Relation to Total Mortality: 32-Year Follow-up of 227,000 Norwegian Boys and Girls

    Anders Engeland;Tone Bjørge;Anne Johanne Søgaard;Aage Tverdal

  • Risk of Fetal Death after Pandemic Influenza Virus Infection or Vaccination

    Siri E. Håberg;Lill Trogstad;Nina Gunnes;Allen J. Wilcox

  • Body Mass Index in Relation to Adult Asthma among 135,000 Norwegian Men and Women

    Wenche Nystad;Haakon E. Meyer;Per Nafstad;Aage Tverdal

  • Blood Pressure and Risk of Cancer Incidence and Mortality in the Metabolic Syndrome and Cancer Project

    Tanja Stocks;Tanja Stocks;Mieke Van Hemelrijck;Jonas Manjer;Tone Bjorge;Tone Bjorge

  • Height, body mass index, and prostate cancer: a follow-up of 950 000 Norwegian men

    A Engeland;S Tretli;T Bjørge

  • Risk of road traffic accidents associated with the prescription of drugs: a registry-based cohort study.

    Anders Engeland;Svetlana Skurtveit;Jørg Mørland

  • Prescription drug use among fathers and mothers before and during pregnancy. A population-based cohort study of 106,000 pregnancies in Norway 2004-2006.

    Anders Engeland;Anders Engeland;Jørgen G. Bramness;Anne Kjersti Daltveit;Anne Kjersti Daltveit;Marit Rønning

  • Cohort Profile: Cohort of Norway (CONOR)

    Øyvind Næss;Øyvind Næss;Anne Johanne Søgaard;Anne Johanne Søgaard;Egil Arnesen;Anne Cathrine Beckstrøm

  • Height and Body Mass Index in Relation to Total Mortality

    Anders Engeland;Tone Bjørge;Randi Marie Selmer;Aage Tverdal

  • Road traffic accident risk related to prescriptions of the hypnotics zopiclone, zolpidem, flunitrazepam and nitrazepam

    Ingebjørg Gustavsen;Jørgen G. Bramness;Svetlana Skurtveit;Svetlana Skurtveit;Anders Engeland;Anders Engeland

  • Height, Body Mass Index, and Ovarian Cancer: A Follow-Up of 1.1 Million Norwegian Women

    Antlers Engeland;Steinar Tretli;Tone Bjørge

  • Smoking habits and risk of cancers other than lung cancer: 28 years' follow-up of 26,000 Norwegian men and women.

    Anders Engeland;Aage Andersen;Tor Haldorsen;Steinar Tretli

  • Metabolic syndrome and breast cancer in the Me-Can (metabolic syndrome and cancer) project

    Tone Bjørge;Tone Bjørge;Annekatrin Lukanova;Håkan Jonsson;Steinar Tretli

  • Metabolic risk factors and primary liver cancer in a prospective study of 578,700 adults

    Wegene Borena;Susanne Strohmaier;Annekatrin Lukanova;Tone Bjørge;Tone Bjørge

Frequent Co-Authors

Steinar Tretli
Steinar Tretli Cancer Registry of Norway
Pär Stattin
Pär Stattin Uppsala University
Mika Gissler
Mika Gissler Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
Jonas Manjer
Jonas Manjer Lund University
Hanno Ulmer
Hanno Ulmer Innsbruck Medical University
Gabriele Nagel
Gabriele Nagel University of Ulm
Göran Hallmans
Göran Hallmans Umeå University
Henrik Toft Sørensen
Henrik Toft Sørensen Aarhus University
Anders Ekbom
Anders Ekbom Karolinska Institute
Jan Haavik
Jan Haavik University of Bergen

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