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Christian Gluud is affiliated with the University of Southern Denmark in Denmark. Their research primarily spans the broad field of medicine with a particular focus on several subfields including cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, epidemiology, clinical psychology, neurology, and surgery.

Their main research topics reflect a focus on systematic approaches and clinical conditions, including:

  • Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
  • COVID-19 clinical research studies
  • Health systems, economic evaluations, and quality of life
  • Sepsis diagnosis and treatment
  • Hemodynamic monitoring and therapy
  • Child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development
  • Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

Christian Gluud has contributed extensively to scientific literature. Their recent notable papers include:

  • "Blinding in randomised clinical trials of psychological interventions: a retrospective study of published trial reports" (2020) published in BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine
  • "Dexamethasone 12 mg versus 6 mg for patients with COVID-19 and severe hypoxaemia: a pre-planned, secondary Bayesian analysis of the COVID STEROID 2 trial" (2021) published in Intensive Care Medicine
  • "Maternal Sildenafil vs Placebo in Pregnant Women With Severe Early-Onset Fetal Growth Restriction" (2020) published in JAMA Network Open
  • "Vaccines to prevent COVID-19: A living systematic review with Trial Sequential Analysis and network meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials" (2022) published in PLoS ONE
  • "Interventions for treatment of COVID-19: A living systematic review with meta-analyses and trial sequential analyses (The LIVING Project)" (2020) published in PLoS Medicine

The frequent coauthors who have collaborated with Christian Gluud include:

  • Janus Christian Jakobsen
  • Jane Lindschou
  • Markus Harboe Olsen
  • Sophie Juul
  • Caroline Barkholt Kamp

Their research findings have been published across various scientific venues, with high frequencies in the following journals and databases:

  • Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
  • BMJ Open
  • Systematic Reviews
  • Trials
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Best Publications

  • Mortality in randomized trials of antioxidant supplements for primary and secondary prevention: Systematic review and meta-analysis

    Goran Bjelakovic;Dimitrinka Nikolova;Lise Lotte Gluud;Rosa G. Simonetti

  • Empirical evidence of bias in treatment effect estimates in controlled trials with different interventions and outcomes: meta-epidemiological study.

    Lesley Wood;Matthias Egger;Lise Lotte Gluud;Kenneth F Schulz

  • Reported Methodologic Quality and Discrepancies between Large and Small Randomized Trials in Meta-Analyses

    Lise L. Kjaergard;John Villumsen;Christian Gluud

  • When and how should multiple imputation be used for handling missing data in randomised clinical trials – a practical guide with flowcharts

    Janus Christian Jakobsen;Christian Gluud;Jørn Wetterslev;Per Winkel

  • Trial sequential analysis may establish when firm evidence is reached in cumulative meta-analysis.

    Jørn Wetterslev;Kristian Thorlund;Jesper Brok;Christian Gluud

  • Antioxidant supplements for prevention of mortality in healthy participants and patients with various diseases

    Goran Bjelakovic;Dimitrinka Nikolova;Lise Lotte Gluud;Rosa G. Simonetti

  • Influence of reported study design characteristics on intervention effect estimates from randomized, controlled trials.

    Jelena Savović;Hayley E Jones;Douglas G Altman;Ross J Harris

  • Influence of reported study design characteristics on intervention effect estimates from randomised controlled trials: combined analysis of meta-epidemiological studies

    J Savović;HE Jones;DG Altman;RJ Harris

  • Vitamin D supplementation for prevention of mortality in adults

    Goran Bjelakovic;Lise Lotte Gluud;Dimitrinka Nikolova;Kate Whitfield

  • Trial sequential analysis reveals insufficient information size and potentially false positive results in many meta-analyses

    Jesper Brok;Kristian Thorlund;Christian Gluud;Jørn Wetterslev

  • Association of funding and conclusions in randomized drug trials: a reflection of treatment effect or adverse events?

    Bodil Als-Nielsen;Wendong Chen;Christian Gluud;Lise L. Kjaergard

  • Trial Sequential Analysis in systematic reviews with meta-analysis

    Jørn Wetterslev;Janus Christian Jakobsen;Christian Gluud

  • Estimating required information size by quantifying diversity in random-effects model meta-analyses

    Jørn Wetterslev;Kristian Thorlund;Jesper Brok;Christian Gluud

  • Antioxidant supplements for prevention of gastrointestinal cancers: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Goran Bjelakovic;Dimitrinka Nikolova;Rosa G Simonetti;Christian Gluud;Christian Gluud

  • Antenatal magnesium sulphate may prevent cerebral palsy in preterm infants--but are we convinced? Evaluation of an apparently conclusive meta-analysis with trial sequential analysis.

    LD Huusom;NJ Secher;O Pryds;K Whitfield

  • Can trial sequential monitoring boundaries reduce spurious inferences from meta-analyses?

    Kristian Thorlund;P. J. Devereaux;Jørn Wetterslev;Gordon Guyatt

  • Apparently conclusive meta-analyses may be inconclusive—Trial sequential analysis adjustment of random error risk due to repetitive testing of accumulating data in apparently conclusive neonatal meta-analyses

    Jesper Brok;Kristian Thorlund;Jørn Wetterslev;Christian Gluud

  • Early versus delayed laparoscopic cholecystectomy for people with acute cholecystitis

    Kurinchi Selvan Gurusamy;Christopher Davidson;Christian Gluud;Brian R Davidson

  • Thresholds for statistical and clinical significance in systematic reviews with meta-analytic methods

    Janus Christian Jakobsen;Jørn Wetterslev;Per Winkel;Theis Lange

  • Reported methodologic quality and discrepancies between large and small randomized trials in meta-analyses (Annals of Internal Medicine (2008) 149, (219))

    Lise L. Gluud;Kristian Thorlund;Christian Gluud;Lesley Woods

Frequent Co-Authors

Jørn Wetterslev
Jørn Wetterslev Copenhagen University Hospital
Lise Lotte Gluud
Lise Lotte Gluud University of Copenhagen
Erik Simonsen
Erik Simonsen University of Copenhagen
Merete Nordentoft
Merete Nordentoft University of Copenhagen
Gorm B. Jensen
Gorm B. Jensen Copenhagen University Hospital
Gorm Greisen
Gorm Greisen Copenhagen University Hospital
Kurinchi Selvan Gurusamy
Kurinchi Selvan Gurusamy University College London
Johan Ärnlöv
Johan Ärnlöv Karolinska Institute
Lehana Thabane
Lehana Thabane McMaster University
Allan Vaag
Allan Vaag Steno Diabetes Center

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