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Overview

Christopher Patterson is affiliated with Queen's University Belfast in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the field of Medicine, with a focus on several subfields including Obstetrics and Gynecology, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Surgery, and Genetics.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics clustered around diabetes and associated health concerns. Key topics include:

  • Gestational Diabetes Research and Management
  • Diabetes Management and Research
  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • Diabetes and associated disorders
  • Pancreatic function and diabetes
  • Nutritional Studies and Diet
  • Bariatric Surgery and Outcomes

Christopher Patterson has contributed to various scientific journals, publishing multiple papers. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Proceedings of The Nutrition Society (4 publications)
  • Diabetes Care (2 publications)
  • Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice (1 publication)
  • European Journal of Nutrition (1 publication)
  • Acta Diabetologica (1 publication)

The researcher has co-authored frequently with several colleagues. Among their frequent co-authors are:

  • David R. McCance (5 publications)
  • Charlotte K. Boughton (4 publications)
  • Janet M. Allen (4 publications)
  • Malgorzata E. Wilinska (4 publications)
  • Sara Hartnell (4 publications)

Representative recent papers from their work include:

  • "Global estimates of incidence of type 1 diabetes in children and adolescents: Results from the International Diabetes Federation Atlas, 10th edition," 2021, published in Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice
  • "Association of low plasma antioxidant levels with all-cause mortality and coronary events in healthy middle-aged men from France and Northern Ireland in the PRIME study," 2020, published in European Journal of Nutrition
  • "Age-period-cohort modelling of type 1 diabetes incidence rates among children included in the EURODIAB 25-year follow-up study," 2022, published in Acta Diabetologica
  • "Effect of 48 Months of Closed-Loop Insulin Delivery on Residual C-Peptide Secretion and Glycemic Control in Newly Diagnosed Youth With Type 1 Diabetes: A Randomized Trial," 2024, published in Diabetes Care
  • "Carbohydrate quantity is more closely associated with glycaemic control than weight in pregnant women with type 1 diabetes: Insights from the Diabetes and Pre-eclampsia Intervention Trial (DAPIT)," 2022, published in Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics

Best Publications

  • Association of the T-cell regulatory gene CTLA4 with susceptibility to autoimmune disease

    H Ueda;Howson Jmm.;L Esposito;J Heward

  • 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

  • Incidence trends for childhood type 1 diabetes in Europe during 1989-2003 and predicted new cases 2005-20: a multicentre prospective registration study

    Christopher C Patterson;Gisela G Dahlquist;Eva Gyürüs;Anders Green

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

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

  • Genome-wide association of early-onset myocardial infarction with single nucleotide polymorphisms and copy number variants.

    Sekar Kathiresan;Benjamin F Voight;Shaun Purcell;Kiran Musunuru

  • Incidence of childhood-onset insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus: the EURODIAB ACE Study.

    A. Green;E.A.M. Gale;C.C. Patterson

  • The British Diabetic Association Cohort Study, I: all-cause mortality in patients with insulin-treated diabetes mellitus.

    S. P. Laing;A. J. Swerdlow;S. D. Slater;J. L. Botha

  • Trends in childhood type 1 diabetes incidence in Europe during 1989-2008 : evidence of non-uniformity over time in rates of increase

    Christopher Patterson;E. Gyurus;Joachim Rosenbauer;Ondrej Cinek

  • Trends in the incidence of childhood-onset diabetes in Europe 1989-1998.

    A. Green;Christopher Patterson

  • Worldwide childhood type 1 diabetes incidence--what can we learn from epidemiology?

    G. Soltesz;Christopher Patterson;G. Dahlquist

  • Diabetes in the young – a global view and worldwide estimates of numbers of children with type 1 diabetes

    Christopher Patterson;Leonor Guariguata;Gisela Dahlquist;Gyula Soltész

  • Worldwide estimates of incidence, prevalence and mortality of type 1 diabetes in children and adolescents: Results from the International Diabetes Federation Diabetes Atlas, 9th edition.

    Christopher C Patterson;Suvi Karuranga;Paraskevi Salpea;Pouya Saeedi

  • Trends and cyclical variation in the incidence of childhood type 1 diabetes in 26 European centres in the 25 year period 1989-2013: a multicentre prospective registration study.

    Christopher C. Patterson;Valma Harjutsalo;Joachim Rosenbauer;Andreas Neu

  • Comorbidity in severe asthma requiring systemic corticosteroid therapy: cross-sectional data from the Optimum Patient Care Research Database and the British Thoracic Difficult Asthma Registry

    Joan Sweeney;Chris C Patterson;Andrew Menzies-Gow;Rob M Niven

  • Geographical variation of presentation at diagnosis of Type I diabetes in children: the EURODIAB Study

    C. Levy-Marchal;Christopher Patterson;A. Green

  • Which hemostatic markers add to the predictive value of conventional risk factors for coronary heart disease and ischemic stroke? The Caerphilly Study

    Ann Smith;Chris Patterson;John Yarnell;Ann Rumley

  • Large-Scale Gene-Centric Analysis Identifies Novel Variants for Coronary Artery Disease

    Adam S. Butterworth;Peter S. Braund;Martin Farrall;Robert J. Hardwick

  • Moderately Elevated Plasma Homocysteine, Methylenetetrahydrofolate Reductase Genotype, and Risk for Stroke, Vascular Dementia, and Alzheimer Disease in Northern Ireland

    Stephen P. McIlroy;Kevin B. Dynan;John T. Lawson;Christopher C. Patterson

  • Early mortality in EURODIAB population-based cohorts of type 1 diabetes diagnosed in childhood since 1989

    Christopher Patterson;G. Dahlquist;V. Harjutsalo;G. Joner

  • Cancer incidence and mortality in patients with insulin-treated diabetes: a UK cohort study

    A.J. Swerdlow;S.P. Laing;Z. Qiao;S.D. Slater

Frequent Co-Authors

Ian S. Young
Ian S. Young Queen's University Belfast
Frank Kee
Frank Kee Queen's University Belfast
Alun Evans
Alun Evans Queen's University Belfast
Gisela Dahlquist
Gisela Dahlquist Umeå University
Usha Chakravarthy
Usha Chakravarthy Queen's University Belfast
Jean Ferrières
Jean Ferrières Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
David P. French
David P. French University of Manchester
Benjamin F. Voight
Benjamin F. Voight University of Pennsylvania
Derek Middleton
Derek Middleton University of Liverpool
Mark J. Daly
Mark J. Daly Massachusetts General Hospital

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