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Overview

Charles Agyemang is affiliated with the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands and has contributed extensively to the field of medicine, with a particular focus on public health and epidemiology. Their research spans various subfields such as Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Epidemiology, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, and Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism.

Their recent papers illustrate a focus on ethnicity, race, and health disparities in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Notable publications include:

  • Sharpening the global focus on ethnicity and race in the time of COVID-19 (2020, The Lancet)
  • Culture Matters in Communicating the Global Response to COVID-19 (2020, Preventing Chronic Disease)
  • Ethnic minority status as social determinant for COVID-19 infection, hospitalisation, severity, ICU admission and deaths in the early phase of the pandemic: a meta-analysis (2021, BMJ Global Health)
  • The Upcoming Epidemic of Heart Failure in South Asia (2020, Circulation Heart Failure)
  • Meta-analyses identify DNA methylation associated with kidney function and damage (2021, Nature Communications)

Charles Agyemang frequently collaborates with other researchers in their field. Their most common co-authors are:

  • Karlijn Meeks
  • Bert-Jan H. van den Born
  • Erik Beune
  • Karien Stronks
  • Felix P. Chilunga

Their work is often published in journals such as:

  • European Journal of Public Health
  • BMJ Open
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Journal of Hypertension
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

The primary areas of study addressed in their research include:

  • Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
  • Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies
  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • Chronic Disease Management Strategies
  • Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Health disparities and outcomes

With a substantial number of publications concentrated in Medicine, Charles Agyemang's research contributions cover a broad spectrum of health-related topics. Their expertise integrates epidemiological methods, public health policy, and clinical insights, especially relating to ethnic minority health and cardiovascular diseases.

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

  • 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

  • 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 century of trends in adult human height

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

  • Panethnic Differences in Blood Pressure in Europe: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    Pietro Amedeo Modesti;Gianpaolo Reboldi;Francesco P Cappuccio;Charles Agyemang

  • 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

  • An overview of cardiovascular risk factor burden in sub-Saharan African countries: A socio-cultural perspective

    Rhonda BeLue;Titilayo A Okoror;Juliet Iwelunmor;Kelly D Taylor

  • Negro, Black, Black African, African Caribbean, African American or what? Labelling African origin populations in the health arena in the 21st century

    Charles Agyemang;Raj Bhopal;Marc Bruijnzeels

  • The utility of ‘country of birth’ for the classification of ethnic groups in health research: the Dutch experience

    Karien Stronks;Isik Kulu-Glasgow;Charles Agyemang

  • Tackling Africa's chronic disease burden: from the local to the global.

    Ama de-Graft Aikins;Nigel Unwin;Charles Agyemang;Pascale A. Allotey

  • Height and body-mass index trajectories of school-aged children and adolescents from 1985 to 2019 in 200 countries and territories: a pooled analysis of 2181 population-based studies with 65 million participants

    Andrea Rodriguez-Martinez;Bin Zhou;Marisa K. Sophiea;James Bentham

  • Prevalence and time trends in obesity among adult West African populations: a meta-analysis.

    Abdul-Razak Abubakari;W Lauder;C Agyemang;M Jones

  • Sharpening the global focus on ethnicity and race in the time of COVID-19.

    Neeraj Bhala;Gwenetta Curry;Adrian R Martineau;Charles Agyemang

  • Rural and urban differences in blood pressure and hypertension in Ghana, West Africa.

    Charles Agyemang

  • Trends in obesity and diabetes across Africa from 1980 to 2014: an analysis of pooled population-based studies

    AP Kengne;J Bentham;B Zhou;N Peer

  • Disparities in type 2 diabetes prevalence among ethnic minority groups resident in Europe: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    Karlijn A. C. Meeks;Deivisson Freitas-Da-Silva;Adebowale Adeyemo;Erik J. A. J. Beune

  • Repositioning of the global epicentre of non-optimal cholesterol

    Cristina Taddei;Bin Zhou;Honor Bixby;Rodrigo M. Carrillo-Larco

  • Cardiovascular disease, diabetes and established risk factors among populations of sub-Saharan African descent in Europe: a literature review

    Charles Agyemang;Juliet Addo;Raj Bhopal;Ama de Graft Aikins

  • Status report on hypertension in Africa--consultative review for the 6th Session of the African Union Conference of Ministers of Health on NCD's.

    Steven van de Vijver;Hilda Akinyi;Samuel Oti;Ademola Olajide

  • Non-communicable diseases

    Anton E. Kunst;Karien Stronks;Charles Agyemang

Frequent Co-Authors

Karien Stronks
Karien Stronks University of Amsterdam
Frank P. Mockenhaupt
Frank P. Mockenhaupt Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Raj Bhopal
Raj Bhopal University of Edinburgh
Anton E. Kunst
Anton E. Kunst University of Amsterdam
Mary Nicolaou
Mary Nicolaou University of Amsterdam
Catherine Kyobutungi
Catherine Kyobutungi Heidelberg University
Marie Norredam
Marie Norredam University of Copenhagen
Annika Rosengren
Annika Rosengren Sahlgrenska University Hospital
Lauren Lissner
Lauren Lissner University of Gothenburg
Adebowale Adeyemo
Adebowale Adeyemo National Institutes of Health

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