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Anne Tybjærg-Hansen

Anne Tybjærg-Hansen

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Best Female Scientists
2025

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Best Female Scientists

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128
Citations
72927
World Ranking
379
National Ranking
4

Medicine

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131
Citations
80209
World Ranking
2361
National Ranking
30

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  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award

Overview

Anne Tybjærg-Hansen is affiliated with the University of Copenhagen in Denmark and has a significant body of research primarily within the field of Medicine. They have contributed extensively to various subfields including Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Surgery, Epidemiology, Genetics, and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine.

The main topics of their research cover a variety of areas related to cardiovascular and metabolic health, including:

  • Lipoproteins and Cardiovascular Health
  • Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins
  • Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Lipid metabolism and disorders
  • Cancer, Lipids, and Metabolism
  • Folate and B Vitamins Research

Anne Tybjærg-Hansen has published in multiple scientific venues with notable frequency. Some of the main publication venues include:

  • Atherosclerosis
  • European Heart Journal
  • Circulation
  • JAMA Cardiology
  • Alzheimer's & Dementia

Among recent papers associated with their research or co-authorship are:

  • Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology Using Mendelian Randomization, 2021, JAMA
  • Triglyceride-rich lipoproteins and their remnants: metabolic insights, role in atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, and emerging therapeutic strategies-a consensus statement from the European Atherosclerosis Society, 2021, European Heart Journal
  • Common variants in Alzheimer's disease and risk stratification by polygenic risk scores, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Global perspective of familial hypercholesterolaemia: a cross-sectional study from the EAS Familial Hypercholesterolaemia Studies Collaboration (FHSC), 2021, The Lancet
  • Combined Effect of PNPLA3, TM6SF2, and HSD17B13 Variants on Risk of Cirrhosis and Hepatocellular Carcinoma in the General Population, 2020, Hepatology

Their frequent collaborators include several researchers with whom they have co-authored multiple studies. Among the most frequent coauthors are:

  • Børge G. Nordestgaard
  • Ruth Frikke-Schmidt
  • Jesper Qvist Thomassen
  • Mette Christoffersen
  • Ida Juul Rasmussen

Best Publications

  • Familial hypercholesterolaemia is underdiagnosed and undertreated in the general population: guidance for clinicians to prevent coronary heart disease: consensus statement of the European Atherosclerosis Society

    Borge G. Nordestgaard;M. John Chapman;Steve E. Humphries;Henry N. Ginsberg

  • Nonfasting triglycerides and risk of myocardial infarction, ischemic heart disease, and death in men and women

    Børge G. Nordestgaard;Marianne Benn;Peter Schnohr;Anne Tybjærg-Hansen

  • Plasma HDL cholesterol and risk of myocardial infarction: A mendelian randomisation study

    Benjamin F. Voight;Benjamin F. Voight;Benjamin F. Voight;Gina M. Peloso;Gina M. Peloso;Marju Orho-Melander;Ruth Frikke-Schmidt

  • Lipoprotein(a) as a cardiovascular risk factor: current status

    Børge G. Nordestgaard;M. John Chapman;Kausik Ray;Jan Borén

  • Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology Using Mendelian Randomization: The STROBE-MR Statement

    Veronika W. Skrivankova;Rebecca C. Richmond;Benjamin A. R. Woolf;James Yarmolinsky

  • Triglyceride-rich lipoproteins and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol in patients at high risk of cardiovascular disease: evidence and guidance for management

    M John Chapman;Henry N Ginsberg;Pierre Amarenco;Felicita Andreotti

  • Plasma fibrinogen level and the risk of major cardiovascular diseases and nonvascular mortality: an individual participant meta-analysis.

    J Danesh;S Lewington;S G Thompson;Lowe Gdo.

  • Genetically elevated lipoprotein(a) and increased risk of myocardial infarction.

    Pia R. Kamstrup;Anne Tybjærg-Hansen;Rolf Steffensen;Børge G. Nordestgaard

  • Remnant Cholesterol as a Causal Risk Factor for Ischemic Heart Disease

    Anette Varbo;Marianne Benn;Anne Tybjærg-Hansen;Anders B. Jørgensen

  • Homozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia: new insights and guidance for clinicians to improve detection and clinical management. A position paper from the Consensus Panel on Familial Hypercholesterolaemia of the European Atherosclerosis Society

    Marina Cuchel;Eric Bruckert;Henry N. Ginsberg;Frederick J. Raal

  • Exome-wide association study identifies a TM6SF2 variant that confers susceptibility to nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.

    Julia Kozlitina;Eriks Smagris;Stefan Stender;Børge G Nordestgaard

  • Loss-of-Function Mutations in APOC3 and Risk of Ischemic Vascular Disease

    Anders Berg Jørgensen;Ruth Frikke-Schmidt;Børge G Nordestgaard;Anne Tybjærg-Hansen

  • Genetic associations with valvular calcification and aortic stenosis.

    George Thanassoulis;George Thanassoulis;Catherine Y. Campbell;David S. Owens;J. Gustav Smith;J. Gustav Smith

  • Genetically Elevated C-Reactive Protein and Ischemic Vascular Disease

    Jeppe Zacho;Anne Tybjærg-Hansen;Jan Skov Jensen;Peer Grande

  • Interleukin-6 receptor pathways in coronary heart disease: a collaborative meta-analysis of 82 studies

    Nadeem Sarwar;Adam S. Butterworth;Daniel F. Freitag;John Gregson

  • Familial Hypercholesterolaemia in Children and Adolescents: Gaining Decades of Life by Optimizing Detection and Treatment

    Albert Wiegman;Samuel S. Gidding;Gerald F Watts;M John Chapman

  • SCORE2 risk prediction algorithms: new models to estimate 10-year risk of cardiovascular disease in Europe

    Steven Hageman;Lisa Pennells

  • A common allele on chromosome 9 associated with coronary heart disease

    Ruth Mcpherson;Alexander Pertsemlidis;Nihan Kavaslar;Alexandre Stewart

  • The UK10K project identifies rare variants in health and disease

    Klaudia Walter;Josine L. Min;Jie Huang;Lucy Crooks

  • A common allele on chromosome 9 associated with coronary heart disease

    Ruth McPherson;Alexander Pertsemlidis;Nihan Kavaslar;Alexandre Stewart

Frequent Co-Authors

Børge G. Nordestgaard
Børge G. Nordestgaard University of Copenhagen
Gorm B. Jensen
Gorm B. Jensen Copenhagen University Hospital
Peter Schnohr
Peter Schnohr University of Copenhagen
Stig E. Bojesen
Stig E. Bojesen University of Copenhagen
John Danesh
John Danesh University of Cambridge
John C. Chambers
John C. Chambers Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Eric Boerwinkle
Eric Boerwinkle The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Jaspal S. Kooner
Jaspal S. Kooner Imperial College London
Sekar Kathiresan
Sekar Kathiresan Harvard University

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