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Frank Kee is affiliated with Queen's University Belfast in the United Kingdom. Their academic work primarily falls within the field of Medicine, with a particular focus on several key subfields including General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Health, and Infectious Diseases.

Throughout their career, Frank Kee has contributed to a variety of research topics. The main areas of their work cover Health disparities and outcomes, COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies, Urban Transport and Accessibility, Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life, Mobile Health and mHealth Applications, Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet, and Retinal Imaging and Analysis.

Frank Kee's frequently published research venues include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), BMJ Open, SSRN Electronic Journal, BMJ, and the European Heart Journal. The extent of their contributions to these publications is notable, with the highest number of papers in bioRxiv (19) and BMJ Open (13).

The scientist has collaborated regularly with a number of co-authors, including Ruth F. Hunter, Bernadette McGuinness, Kari Kuulasmaa, Ian Young, and Veikko Salomaa. Each of these collaborators has co-authored over 29 papers with Frank Kee, indicating a consistent and extensive research partnership.

Among their recent publications are:

  • SCORE2 risk prediction algorithms: new models to estimate 10-year risk of cardiovascular disease in Europe (2021, European Heart Journal)
  • Global Effect of Modifiable Risk Factors on Cardiovascular Disease and Mortality (2023, New England Journal of Medicine)
  • Living risk prediction algorithm (QCOVID) for risk of hospital admission and mortality from coronavirus 19 in adults: national derivation and validation cohort study (2020, BMJ)
  • Adapting interventions to new contexts-the ADAPT guidance (2021, BMJ)
  • Association Between Depressive Symptoms and Incident Cardiovascular Diseases (2020, JAMA)

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

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

    Panos Deloukas;Stavroula Kanoni;Christina Willenborg;Martin Farrall

  • Human papillomavirus and oral cancer: the International Agency for Research on Cancer multicenter study.

    Rolando Herrero;Xavier Castellsagué;Michael Pawlita;Jolanta Lissowska

  • SCORE2 risk prediction algorithms: new models to estimate 10-year risk of cardiovascular disease in Europe

    Steven Hageman;Lisa Pennells

  • 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

  • Validity of the Global Physical Activity Questionnaire (GPAQ) in assessing levels and change in moderate-vigorous physical activity and sedentary behaviour

    Claire L Cleland;Claire L Cleland;Ruth F Hunter;Frank Kee;Margaret E Cupples

  • Exome-wide association study of plasma lipids in > 300,000 individuals

    Dajiang J Liu;Gina M Peloso;Gina M Peloso;Haojie Yu;Adam S Butterworth;Adam S Butterworth

  • Synergistic effects of angiotensin-converting enzyme and angiotensin-II type 1 receptor gene polymorphisms on risk of myocardial infarction.

    L Tiret;P Ducimetière;A Bonnardeaux;F Soubrier

  • Rare variant in scavenger receptor BI raises HDL cholesterol and increases risk of coronary heart disease

    Zanoni P;Khetarpal Sa;Larach Db;Hancock-Cerutti Wf

  • Association of common variants in NPPA and NPPB with circulating natriuretic peptides and blood pressure

    Christopher Newton-Cheh;Martin G Larson;Ramachandran S Vasan;Daniel Levy

  • Living risk prediction algorithm (QCOVID) for risk of hospital admission and mortality from coronavirus 19 in adults: national derivation and validation cohort study.

    Ash K Clift;Carol A C Coupland;Ruth H Keogh;Karla Diaz-Ordaz

  • Impact of smoking and smoking cessation on cardiovascular events and mortality among older adults: meta-analysis of individual participant data from prospective cohort studies of the CHANCES consortium

    Ute Mons;Aysel Müezzinler;Aysel Müezzinler;Carolin Gellert;Ben Schöttker

  • 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

  • Is hyperfiltration associated with the future risk of developing diabetic nephropathy? A meta-analysis

    G.M. Magee;R.W. Bilous;R.W. Bilous;Christopher Cardwell;S.J. Hunter

  • Protein-altering variants associated with body mass index implicate pathways that control energy intake and expenditure in obesity

    Valérie Turcot;Yingchang Lu;Yingchang Lu;Heather M Highland;Heather M Highland;Claudia Schurmann

  • Vitamin D and mortality: meta-analysis of individual participant data from a large consortium of cohort studies from Europe and the United States

    Ben Schöttker;Rolf Jorde;Rolf Jorde;Anne Peasey;Barbara Thorand

  • Contribution of 30 biomarkers to 10-year cardiovascular risk estimation in 2 population cohorts: the MONICA, risk, genetics, archiving, and monograph (MORGAM) biomarker project.

    Stefan Blankenberg;Tanja Zeller;Olli Saarela;Aki S. Havulinna

  • Refining the accuracy of validated target identification through coding variant fine-mapping in type 2 diabetes

    Anubha Mahajan;Jennifer Wessel;Sara M. Willems;Wei Zhao

  • Obesity and the lung: 1 · Epidemiology

    K M McClean;Frank Kee;Ian Young;J S Elborn

  • 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

Kari Kuulasmaa
Kari Kuulasmaa Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
Jean Ferrières
Jean Ferrières Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Veikko Salomaa
Veikko Salomaa Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
Mark A. Tully
Mark A. Tully University of Ulster
Dominique Arveiler
Dominique Arveiler University of Strasbourg
Christopher Patterson
Christopher Patterson Queen's University Belfast
Alun Evans
Alun Evans Queen's University Belfast
Torben Jørgensen
Torben Jørgensen University of Copenhagen
Ian S. Young
Ian S. Young Queen's University Belfast
Markus Perola
Markus Perola Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare

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