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Christa Meisinger

Christa Meisinger

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2025
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Medicine
Germany
2026

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Medicine in Germany Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award

Overview

Christa Meisinger is affiliated with the University of Augsburg in Germany. Their research spans multiple areas within medicine, emphasizing cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, epidemiology, genetics, endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, and physiology.

Their academic contributions are primarily focused on the study of genetic associations and epidemiology, nutritional studies and diet, cardiovascular function and risk factors, acute myocardial infarction research, adipokines, inflammation, and metabolic diseases, liver disease diagnosis and treatment, and COVID-19 and mental health.

Coauthors frequently collaborating with Christa Meisinger include:

  • Jakob Linseisen
  • Annette Peters
  • Margit Heier
  • Dennis Freuer
  • Inge Kirchberger

They have published extensively in venues such as:

  • UNC Libraries
  • Scientific Reports
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Bundesgesundheitsblatt - Gesundheitsforschung - Gesundheitsschutz
  • Lipids in Health and Disease

Selected recent papers from Christa Meisinger include:

  • Framework and baseline examination of the German National Cohort (NAKO), 2022, European Journal of Epidemiology
  • Impact of body composition on COVID-19 susceptibility and severity: A two-sample multivariable Mendelian randomization study, 2021, Metabolism
  • Association Between Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Both Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis, 2022, JAMA Dermatology
  • Physical activity, sedentary behavior and risk of coronary artery disease, myocardial infarction and ischemic stroke: a two-sample Mendelian randomization study, 2021, Clinical Research in Cardiology
  • Meta-analysis uncovers genome-wide significant variants for rapid kidney function decline, 2020, Kidney International

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

  • 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 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

  • Discovery and refinement of loci associated with lipid levels

    Cristen J. Willer;Ellen M. Schmidt;Sebanti Sengupta;Gina M. Peloso;Gina M. Peloso;Gina M. Peloso

  • 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

  • New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk

    Josée Dupuis;Josée Dupuis;Claudia Langenberg;Inga Prokopenko;Richa Saxena;Richa Saxena

  • Meta-analysis of genome-wide association data and large-scale replication identifies additional susceptibility loci for type 2 diabetes

    E Zeggini;L J Scott;R Saxena;B F Voight

  • 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 identifies new risk loci for coronary artery disease

    Panos Deloukas;Stavroula Kanoni;Christina Willenborg;Martin Farrall

  • Genome-wide association study identifies 74 loci associated with educational attainment

    Aysu Okbay;Jonathan P. Beauchamp;Mark Alan Fontana;James J. Lee

  • A century of trends in adult human height

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

  • The genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes

    Christian Fuchsberger;Christian Fuchsberger;Jason A. Flannick;Jason A. Flannick;Tanya M. Teslovich;Anubha Mahajan

  • Range of genetic mutations associated with severe non-syndromic sporadic intellectual disability: an exome sequencing study.

    Anita Rauch;Dagmar Wieczorek;Elisabeth Graf;Thomas Wieland

  • Common variants associated with plasma triglycerides and risk for coronary artery disease

    Ron Do;Cristen J. Willer;Ellen M. Schmidt;Sebanti Sengupta

  • Human metabolic individuality in biomedical and pharmaceutical research

    Karsten Suhre;So-Youn Shin;Ann-Kristin Petersen;Robert P. Mohney

  • Risk thresholds for alcohol consumption: combined analysis of individual-participant data for 599 912 current drinkers in 83 prospective studies

    Angela M. Wood;Stephen Kaptoge;Adam S. Butterworth;Peter Willeit

  • New loci associated with kidney function and chronic kidney disease

    Anna Köttgen;Anna Köttgen;Cristian Pattaro;Carsten A. Böger;Christian Fuchsberger

  • High prevalence of undiagnosed diabetes mellitus in Southern Germany: target populations for efficient screening. The KORA survey 2000.

    W. Rathmann;B. Haastert;A. Icks;H. Löwel

  • Erratum: New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk (Nature Genetics (2010) 42 (105-116))

    Josée Dupuis;Claudia Langenberg;Inga Prokopenko;Richa Saxena

  • The genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes

    Christian Fuchsberger;Jason Flannick;Tanya M. Teslovich;Anubha Mahajan

Frequent Co-Authors

Annette Peters
Annette Peters Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Wolfgang Rathmann
Wolfgang Rathmann Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Wolfgang Koenig
Wolfgang Koenig German Heart Centre
Barbara Thorand
Barbara Thorand Helmholtz Zentrum München
Christian Herder
Christian Herder Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Christian Gieger
Christian Gieger Helmholtz Zentrum München
Henry Völzke
Henry Völzke Greifswald University Hospital
Thomas Illig
Thomas Illig Hannover Medical School
Angela Döring
Angela Döring Augsburg College
Michael Roden
Michael Roden Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

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