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Overview

Annette Peters is affiliated with Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in Germany. Their research spans multiple areas within medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, focusing on health, toxicology, mutagenesis, molecular biology, genetics, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, and physiology.

The scientist's frequently explored topics include air quality and health impacts, climate change and health impacts, genetic associations and epidemiology, epigenetics and DNA methylation, nutritional studies and diet, health disparities and outcomes, and the interaction between health, environment, and cognitive aging.

Annette Peters has contributed to various publication venues, with notable recurrent appearances in:

  • UNC Libraries
  • ISEE Conference Abstracts
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Scientific Reports

Recent publications demonstrate a wide range of interests. Notable papers include:

  • "Global Effect of Modifiable Risk Factors on Cardiovascular Disease and Mortality," published in 2023 in the New England Journal of Medicine
  • "Stroke genetics informs drug discovery and risk prediction across ancestries," published in 2022 in Nature
  • "Hallmarks of environmental insults," published in 2021 in Cell
  • "Long-term exposure to low ambient air pollution concentrations and mortality among 28 million people: results from seven large European cohorts within the ELAPSE project," published in 2022 in The Lancet Planetary Health
  • "The COVID-19 pandemic and global environmental change: Emerging research needs," published in 2020 in Environment International

Annette Peters frequently collaborates with a number of researchers, including:

  • Barbara Thorand
  • Wolfgang Rathmann
  • Christian Gieger
  • Mélanie Waldenberger
  • Christa Meisinger

Best Publications

  • Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults

    Leandra Abarca-Gómez;Ziad A Abdeen;Zargar Abdul Hamid;Niveen M Abu-Rmeileh

  • Particulate Matter Air Pollution and Cardiovascular Disease An Update to the Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association

    Robert D. Brook;Sanjay Rajagopalan;C. Arden Pope;Jeffrey R. Brook

  • Trends in adult body-mass index in 200 countries from 1975 to 2014: A pooled analysis of 1698 population-based measurement studies with 19.2 million participants

    Mariachiara Di Cesare;Mariachiara Di Cesare;James Bentham;Gretchen A Stevens;Bin Zhou

  • Worldwide trends in diabetes since 1980: a pooled analysis of 751 population-based studies with 4.4 million participants

    Bin Zhou;Yuan Lu;Kaveh Hajifathalian;James Bentham

  • Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index

    Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Cristen J. Willer;Sonja I. Berndt;Keri L. Monda

  • Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: a pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants

    Bin Zhou;Rodrigo M Carrillo-Larco;Goodarz Danaei;Leanne M Riley

  • Worldwide trends in blood pressure from 1975 to 2015: a pooled analysis of 1479 population-based measurement studies with 19·1 million participants

    Bin Zhou;James Bentham;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Honor Bixby

  • A comprehensive 1000 Genomes–based genome-wide association meta-analysis of coronary artery disease

    M Nikpay;A Goel;Won H-H.;L M Hall

  • Defining the role of common variation in the genomic and biological architecture of adult human height

    Andrew R. Wood;Tonu Esko;Jian Yang;Sailaja Vedantam

  • Large-scale association analysis identifies 13 new susceptibility loci for coronary artery disease

    Heribert Schunkert;Inke R. König;Sekar Kathiresan;Muredach P. Reilly

  • Large-scale association analysis provides insights into the genetic architecture and pathophysiology of type 2 diabetes

    Andrew P Morris;Benjamin F Voight;Benjamin F Voight;Tanya M Teslovich;Teresa Ferreira

  • Long-term air pollution exposure and cardio- respiratory mortality: a review.

    Gerard Hoek;Ranjini M Krishnan;Rob Beelen;Annette Peters

  • Increased Particulate Air Pollution and the Triggering of Myocardial Infarction

    Annette Peters;Douglas W. Dockery;James E. Muller;Murray A. Mittleman

  • Large-scale association analysis identifies new risk loci for coronary artery disease

    Panos Deloukas;Stavroula Kanoni;Christina Willenborg;Martin Farrall

  • Respiratory effects are associated with the number of ultrafine particles.

    A Peters;H E Wichmann;T Tuch;J Heinrich

  • Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology

    Adam E. Locke;Bratati Kahali;Sonja I. Berndt;Anne E. Justice

  • Fine-mapping type 2 diabetes loci to single-variant resolution using high-density imputation and islet-specific epigenome maps.

    Anubha Mahajan;Daniel Taliun;Matthias Thurner;Neil R. Robertson

  • Effects of long-term exposure to air pollution on natural-cause mortality : An analysis of 22 European cohorts within the multicentre ESCAPE project

    Rob Beelen;Ole Raaschou-Nielsen;Massimo Stafoggia;Zorana Jovanovic Andersen

  • A century of trends in adult human height

    James Bentham;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Gretchen A. Stevens;Bin Zhou

  • A comprehensive 1000 Genomes-based genome-wide association meta-analysis of coronary artery disease

    Majid Nikpay;Anuj Goel;Hong-Hee Won;Leanne M. Hall

Frequent Co-Authors

Christian Gieger
Christian Gieger Helmholtz Zentrum München
Christa Meisinger
Christa Meisinger University of Augsburg
Barbara Thorand
Barbara Thorand Helmholtz Zentrum München
Wolfgang Rathmann
Wolfgang Rathmann Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Wolfgang Koenig
Wolfgang Koenig German Heart Centre
Melanie Waldenberger
Melanie Waldenberger Helmholtz Zentrum München
Tonu Esko
Tonu Esko University of Tartu
Nilesh J. Samani
Nilesh J. Samani University of Leicester
Markus Perola
Markus Perola Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
Harald Grallert
Harald Grallert Helmholtz Zentrum München

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