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Folkert W. Asselbergs

Folkert W. Asselbergs

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Medicine

D-Index
95
Citations
40411
World Ranking
9946
National Ranking
390

Overview

Folkert W. Asselbergs is affiliated with Amsterdam UMC in the Netherlands and has a research focus rooted in medicine, with an emphasis on cardiology and cardiovascular medicine. Their work encompasses a range of topics relating to heart health and diseases, molecular biology, surgery, genetics, and epidemiology.

Their publication record highlights an extensive engagement with cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, contributing notably to areas such as cardiomyopathy and myosin studies, cardiovascular function and risk factors, and heart failure treatment and management. Additional focal topics include cardiovascular effects of exercise, cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias, blood pressure and hypertension studies, and cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies.

Their recent research papers include:

  • 2023 ESC Guidelines for the management of cardiomyopathies, 2023, European Heart Journal
  • Pharmacological blood pressure lowering for primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease across different levels of blood pressure: an individual participant-level data meta-analysis, 2021, The Lancet
  • Genetic drug target validation using Mendelian randomisation, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Microanatomy of the Human Atherosclerotic Plaque by Single-Cell Transcriptomics, 2020, Circulation Research
  • Carotid Intima-Media Thickness Progression as Surrogate Marker for Cardiovascular Risk, 2020, Circulation

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Asselbergs include:

  • J. Peter van Tintelen
  • Amand F. Schmidt
  • Michiel L. Bots
  • Pim van der Harst
  • Anneline S.J.M. te Riele

Regarding publication venues, their work predominantly appears in the following journals:

  • European Heart Journal
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Netherlands Heart Journal
  • International Journal of Cardiology
  • ESC Heart Failure

Best Publications

  • Defining the role of common variation in the genomic and biological architecture of adult human height

    Andrew R. Wood;Tonu Esko;Jian Yang;Sailaja Vedantam

  • Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology

    Adam E. Locke;Bratati Kahali;Sonja I. Berndt;Anne E. Justice

  • The interleukin-6 receptor as a target for prevention of coronary heart disease: a mendelian randomisation analysis.

    D I Swerdlow;M V Holmes;K B Kuchenbaecker

  • Interleukin-6 receptor pathways in coronary heart disease: a collaborative meta-analysis of 82 studies

    Nadeem Sarwar;Adam S. Butterworth;Daniel F. Freitag;John Gregson

  • Genome-wide association and Mendelian randomisation analysis provide insights into the pathogenesis of heart failure.

    S Shah;A Henry;C Roselli;H Lin

  • Association between alcohol and cardiovascular disease:Mendelian randomisation analysis based on individual participant data

    Michael V Holmes;Michael V Holmes;Caroline E Dale;Luisa Zuccolo;Richard J Silverwood

  • HMG-coenzyme A reductase inhibition, type 2 diabetes, and bodyweight: evidence from genetic analysis and randomised trials.

    Daniel I Swerdlow;David Preiss;Karoline B Kuchenbaecker;Michael Holmes

  • Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies 11 new loci for anthropometric traits and provides insights into genetic architecture

    Sonja I Berndt;Stefan Gustafsson;Stefan Gustafsson;Reedik Mägi;Reedik Mägi;Andrea Ganna

  • Mendelian randomization of blood lipids for coronary heart disease

    Michael V. Holmes;Folkert W. Asselbergs;Tom M. Palmer;Fotios Drenos

  • Worsening Renal Function and Prognosis in Heart Failure: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    Kevin Damman;Gerjan Navis;Adriaan A. Voors;Folkert W. Asselbergs

  • Effects of Fosinopril and Pravastatin on Cardiovascular Events in Subjects With Microalbuminuria

    Folkert W. Asselbergs;Gilles F.H. Diercks;Hans L. Hillege;Ad J. van Boven

  • The Influence of Age and Sex on Genetic Associations with Adult Body Size and Shape: A Large-Scale Genome-Wide Interaction Study

    Thomas W. Winkler;Anne E. Justice;Mariaelisa Graff;Llilda Barata

  • Pharmacological blood pressure lowering for primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease across different levels of blood pressure: an individual participant-level data meta-analysis

    Kazem Rahimi;Zeinab Bidel;Milad Nazarzadeh;Emma Copland

  • A Genotype-Guided Strategy for Oral P2Y12 Inhibitors in Primary PCI

    Daniel M F Claassens;Gerrit J A Vos;Thomas O Bergmeijer;Renicus S Hermanides

  • FTO genotype is associated with phenotypic variability of body mass index

    Jian Yang;Jian Yang;Ruth J F Loos;Ruth J F Loos;Joseph E. Powell;Joseph E. Powell;Sarah E. Medland

  • The Translational Landscape of the Human Heart

    Sebastiaan van Heesch;Franziska Witte;Valentin Schneider-Lunitz;Jana F. Schulz

  • Coding Variation in ANGPTL4, LPL, and SVEP1 and the Risk of Coronary Disease

    Nathan O. Stitziel;Kathleen E. Stirrups;Nicholas G. D. Masca;Jeanette Erdmann

  • Common variants in 22 loci are associated with QRS duration and cardiac ventricular conduction.

    Nona Sotoodehnia;Aaron Isaacs;Paul I W de Bakker;Marcus Dörr

  • Microanatomy of the Human Atherosclerotic Plaque by Single-Cell Transcriptomics

    Marie A.C. Depuydt;Koen H.M. Prange;Lotte Slenders;Tiit Örd

  • Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies 11 new loci for anthropometric traits and provides insights into genetic architecture

    Sonja I. Berndt;Stefan Gustafsson;Reedik Maegi;Andrea Ganna

Frequent Co-Authors

Pim van der Harst
Pim van der Harst University Medical Center Utrecht
Nilesh J. Samani
Nilesh J. Samani University of Leicester
Paul I. W. de Bakker
Paul I. W. de Bakker Vertex Pharmaceuticals (United Kingdom)
J. Wouter Jukema
J. Wouter Jukema Leiden University Medical Center
Bruce M. Psaty
Bruce M. Psaty University of Washington
Kari Stefansson
Kari Stefansson deCODE Genetics (Iceland)
André G. Uitterlinden
André G. Uitterlinden Erasmus University Rotterdam
Niek Verweij
Niek Verweij University Medical Center Groningen
Unnur Thorsteinsdottir
Unnur Thorsteinsdottir deCODE Genetics (Iceland)
Hans L. Hillege
Hans L. Hillege University Medical Center Groningen

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