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Research.com Recognitions

  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians

Overview

Gerd Assmann is affiliated with the University of Münster in Germany and focuses primarily on Medicine, with specific attention to Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Epidemiology, Materials Chemistry, and Surgery.

They have contributed research spanning key topics such as Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies, Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins, Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment, Lipoproteins and Cardiovascular Health, Chronic Disease Management Strategies, Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors, as well as Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, and Quality of Life.

Gerd Assmann has frequently published in several academic venues, including:

  • UNC Libraries
  • The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology
  • ANU Open Research (Australian National University)
  • Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances

Highlighted recent papers include:

  • Life expectancy associated with different ages at diagnosis of type 2 diabetes in high-income countries: 23 million person-years of observation (2023), The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology
  • Repeated measurements of blood pressure and cholesterol improves cardiovascular disease risk prediction: an individual-participant-data meta-analysis (2021), ANU Open Research (Australian National University)
  • Association of Cardiometabolic Multimorbidity With Mortality (2021), UNC Libraries
  • Use of Repeated Blood Pressure and Cholesterol Measurements to Improve Cardiovascular Disease Risk Prediction: An Individual-Participant-Data Meta-Analysis (2020), UNC Libraries
  • Microsecond time-resolved serial crystallography data pipeline for Swiss Light Source 2.0 (2023), Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Peter Willeit
  • Lisa Pennells
  • Eric J. Brunner
  • Chiara Donfrancesco
  • Maryam Kavousi

Gerd Assmann's work intersects multiple fields with a strong emphasis on cardiovascular and metabolic medicine, integrating longitudinal studies and meta-analyses to enhance disease risk prediction and management.

Among professional recognitions, they are noted as a Member of the Association of American Physicians.

Best Publications

  • From vulnerable plaque to vulnerable patient: a call for new definitions and risk assessment strategies: Part II.

    Morteza Naghavi;Peter Libby;Erling Falk;S. Ward Casscells;S. Ward Casscells

  • Homocysteine and risk of ischemic heart disease and stroke: A meta-analysis

    R. Clarke;R. Collins;S. Lewington;A. Donald

  • Simple Scoring Scheme for Calculating the Risk of Acute Coronary Events Based on the 10-Year Follow-Up of the Prospective Cardiovascular Münster (PROCAM) Study

    Gerd Assmann;Paul Cullen;Helmut Schulte

  • Tangier disease is caused by mutations in the gene encoding ATP-binding cassette transporter 1

    Rust S;Rosier M;Funke H;Real J

  • Plasma fibrinogen level and the risk of major cardiovascular diseases and nonvascular mortality: an individual participant meta-analysis.

    J Danesh;S Lewington;S G Thompson;Lowe Gdo.

  • Relation of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol and triglycerides to incidence of atherosclerotic coronary artery disease (the PROCAM experience). Prospective Cardiovascular Münster study.

    Gerd Assmann;Helmut Schulte

  • C-Reactive Protein, Fibrinogen, and Cardiovascular Disease Prediction

    Stephen Kaptoge;Emanuele Di Angelantonio;Lisa Pennells;Angela M. Wood

  • World Health Organization cardiovascular disease risk charts: revised models to estimate risk in 21 global regions

    Stephen Kaptoge;Lisa Pennells;Dirk De Bacquer;Marie Therese Cooney

  • High-density lipoprotein cholesterol as a predictor of coronary heart disease risk. The PROCAM experience and pathophysiological implications for reverse cholesterol transport

    Gerd Assmann;Helmut Schulte;Arnold von Eckardstein;Yadong Huang

  • High Density Lipoproteins and Arteriosclerosis: Role of Cholesterol Efflux and Reverse Cholesterol Transport

    Arnold von Eckardstein;Jerzy-Roch Nofer;Gerd Assmann

  • Fibrinogen and factor VII in the prediction of coronary risk. Results from the PROCAM study in healthy men.

    J Heinrich;L Balleisen;H Schulte;G Assmann

  • Association of Cardiometabolic Multimorbidity With Mortality

    Emanuele Di Angelantonio;Stephen Kaptoge;David Wormser;Peter Willeit

  • HDL cholesterol and protective factors in atherosclerosis.

    Gerd Assmann;Antonio M. Gotto

  • HDL induces NO-dependent vasorelaxation via the lysophospholipid receptor S1P3

    Jerzy Roch Nofer;Markus Van Der Giet;Markus Tölle;Iza Wolinska

  • HDL and arteriosclerosis: beyond reverse cholesterol transport.

    Jerzy-Roch Nofer;Beate Kehrel;Manfred Fobker;Bodo Levkau

  • A genome-wide association study in Europeans and South Asians identifies five new loci for coronary artery disease

    John F. Peden;Jemma C. Hopewell;Danish Saleheen;John C. Chambers

  • Hypertriglyceridemia and elevated lipoprotein(a) are risk factors for major coronary events in middle-aged men

    Gerd Assmann;Helmut Schulte;Arnold von Eckardstein

  • Lipid-related markers and cardiovascular disease prediction.

    E Di Angelantonio;P Gao;L Pennells

  • Lipoprotein(a) is an independent risk factor for myocardial infarction at a young age.

    M Sandkamp;H Funke;H Schulte;E Köhler

  • The Prospective Cardiovascular Münster (PROCAM) study: prevalence of hyperlipidemia in persons with hypertension and/or diabetes mellitus and the relationship to coronary heart disease

    Gerd Assmann;Helmut Schulte

Frequent Co-Authors

Udo Seedorf
Udo Seedorf Universität Hamburg
Arnold von Eckardstein
Arnold von Eckardstein University of Zurich
Yadong Huang
Yadong Huang Gladstone Institutes
Tom Meade
Tom Meade London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Annika Rosengren
Annika Rosengren Sahlgrenska University Hospital
Hiroyasu Iso
Hiroyasu Iso Osaka University
Günter Breithardt
Günter Breithardt University of Münster
John Danesh
John Danesh University of Cambridge
Simon G. Thompson
Simon G. Thompson University of Cambridge
Eric J. Brunner
Eric J. Brunner University College London

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