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Overview

Dermot O'Reilly is affiliated with Queen's University Belfast in the United Kingdom. Their research spans primarily the fields of Medicine and Social Sciences, with a significant number of publications in Clinical Psychology, General Health Professions, Health, Epidemiology, and Emergency Medicine.

The main topics investigated by O'Reilly include:

  • Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Chronic Disease Management Strategies
  • Homelessness and Social Issues
  • Emergency and Acute Care Studies
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Child and Adolescent Health

O'Reilly has contributed research published in several frequent venues, including:

  • International Journal for Population Data Science
  • BMJ Open
  • Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences
  • BMC Medicine
  • The Lancet

Recent papers authored or co-authored by O'Reilly include:

  • "Severe COVID-19 outcomes after full vaccination of primary schedule and initial boosters: pooled analysis of national prospective cohort studies of 30 million individuals in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales" (2022, The Lancet)
  • "Epidemiology of pre-existing multimorbidity in pregnant women in the UK in 2018: a population-based cross-sectional study" (2022, BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth)
  • "Does physical ill-health increase the risk of suicide? A census-based follow-up study of over 1 million people" (2020, Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences)
  • "Polypharmacy during pregnancy and associated risk factors: a retrospective analysis of 577 medication exposures among 1.5 million pregnancies in the UK, 2000-2019" (2023, BMC Medicine)
  • "Experience of child welfare services and long-term adult mental health outcomes: a scoping review" (2021, Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology)

Frequent co-authors of Dermot O'Reilly include:

  • Aideen Maguire
  • Colin McCowan
  • Amaya Azcoaga-Lorenzo
  • Siobhán Murphy
  • Sinéad Brophy

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

  • 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

  • Long working hours and risk of coronary heart disease and stroke : a systematic review and meta-analysis of published and unpublished data for 603 838 individuals

    Mika Kivimäki;Mika Kivimäki;Markus Jokela;Solja T. Nyberg;Archana Singh-Manoux;Archana Singh-Manoux

  • 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

  • Severe COVID-19 outcomes after full vaccination of primary schedule and initial boosters: pooled analysis of national prospective cohort studies of 30 million individuals in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales

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  • The mental health and wellbeing of first generation migrants: a systematic-narrative review of reviews.

    Ciara Close;Anne Maria Kouvonen;Anne Maria Kouvonen;Anne Maria Kouvonen;Tania J. Bosqui;Tania J. Bosqui;Kishan Patel

  • Repositioning of the global epicentre of non-optimal cholesterol

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

  • Potentially inappropriate prescribing and cost outcomes for older people: a cross-sectional study using the Northern Ireland Enhanced Prescribing Database.

    Marie C. Bradley;Marie C. Bradley;Tom Fahey;Caitriona Cahir;Kathleen Bennett

  • Helicobacter pylori infection: relation with cardiovascular risk factors, ischaemic heart disease, and social class.

    Liam J. Murray;Kathy B. Bamford;Dermot P.J. O'Reilly;Evelyn E. McCrum

  • Helicobacter pylori infection in children: relation with current household living conditions.

    W. A. McCallion;L. J. Murray;A. G. Bailie;A. M. Dalzell

  • Is caring associated with an increased risk of mortality? A longitudinal study.

    Dermot O'Reilly;Sheelagh Connolly;Michael Rosato;Christopher Patterson

  • Season and outdoor ambient temperature: effects on birth weight.

    L.J Murray;D.P.J O’Reilly;N Betts;C.C Patterson

  • Heterogeneous contributions of change in population distribution of body mass index to change in obesity and underweight

    Maria Lc Iurilli;Bin Zhou;James E Bennett

  • COVID-19 hospital admissions and deaths after BNT162b2 and ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccinations in 2·57 million people in Scotland (EAVE II): a prospective cohort study.

    Utkarsh Agrawal;Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi;Colin McCowan;Rachel H Mulholland

  • Telerheumatology--diagnostic accuracy and acceptability to patient, specialist, and general practitioner.

    P Leggett;L Graham;K Steele;A Gilliland

  • Cohort description: The Northern Ireland Longitudinal Study (NILS)

    Dermot O'Reilly;Michael Rosato;Gemma Catney;Fiona Johnston

  • Mental health in Northern Ireland: have “the Troubles” made it worse?

    Dermot O'Reilly;Michael Stevenson

  • Increasing inequalities in health: Is it an artefact caused by the selective movement of people?

    Sheelagh Connolly;Dermot O'Reilly;Michael Rosato

  • Area factors and suicide: 5-year follow-up of the Northern Ireland population

    Dermot O'Reilly;Michael Rosato;Sheelagh Connolly;Christopher Cardwell

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Donnelly
Michael Donnelly Queen's University Belfast
Annika Rosengren
Annika Rosengren Sahlgrenska University Hospital
Vilmundur Gudnason
Vilmundur Gudnason University of Iceland
Annette Peters
Annette Peters Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Lauren Lissner
Lauren Lissner University of Gothenburg
Hanna Tolonen
Hanna Tolonen Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare

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