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Henrik Toft Sørensen

Henrik Toft Sørensen

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Medicine
Denmark
2026

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Medicine

D-Index
165
Citations
115432
World Ranking
628
National Ranking
10

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Medicine in Denmark Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Medicine in Denmark Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Denmark Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Medicine in Denmark Leader Award

Overview

Henrik Toft Sørensen is affiliated with Aarhus University in Denmark. Their research focuses primarily on the field of Medicine, with particular emphasis on subfields such as Surgery, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Epidemiology, Oncology, and Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism.

The scientific work of Henrik Toft Sørensen includes topics covering Venous Thromboembolism Diagnosis and Management, Birth, Development, and Health, Lipoproteins and Cardiovascular Health, Acute Myocardial Infarction Research, Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life, Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics, and Pregnancy and Preeclampsia Studies.

Frequent coauthors in Henrik Toft Sørensen's work include:

  • Erzsébet Horváth-Puhó
  • Lars Pedersen
  • Reimar W. Thomsen
  • Timothy L. Lash
  • Morten Schmidt

Key publication venues where Henrik Toft Sørensen has contributed multiple works are:

  • Clinical Epidemiology
  • Diabetes Care
  • JAMA Network Open
  • BMJ Open
  • American Journal of Epidemiology

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Henrik Toft Sørensen include:

  • Venous thromboembolism in cancer patients: a population-based cohort study, 2020, Blood
  • Nordic Health Registry-Based Research: A Review of Health Care Systems and Key Registries, 2021, Clinical Epidemiology
  • Colorectal cancer in ulcerative colitis: a Scandinavian population-based cohort study, 2020, The Lancet
  • Arterial events, venous thromboembolism, thrombocytopenia, and bleeding after vaccination with Oxford-AstraZeneca ChAdOx1-S in Denmark and Norway: population based cohort study, 2021, BMJ
  • Global Epidemiology of Hip Fractures: Secular Trends in Incidence Rate, Post-Fracture Treatment, and All-Cause Mortality, 2023, Journal of Bone and Mineral Research

Best Publications

  • The Danish National Patient Registry: a review of content, data quality, and research potential.

    Morten Schmidt;Sigrun Alba Johannesdottir Schmidt;Jakob Lynge Sandegaard;Vera Ehrenstein

  • [The REporting of studies Conducted using Observational Routinely-collected health Data (RECORD) statement].

    Eric I. Benchimol;Liam Smeeth;Astrid Guttmann;Katie Harron

  • The Danish Civil Registration System as a tool in epidemiology

    Morten Schmidt;Lars Pedersen;Henrik Toft Sørensen

  • The Danish National Prescription Registry

    Helle Wallach Kildemoes;Henrik Toft Sørensen;Jesper Hallas

  • prognosis of cancers associated with venous thromboembolism

    H. Sorensen;L. Mellemkjaer;J. Olsen;J. Baron

  • Incidence of Adenocarcinoma among Patients with Barrett's Esophagus

    Frederik Hvid-Jensen;Lars Pedersen;Asbjørn Mohr Drewes;Henrik Toft Sørensen

  • The Danish National Birth Cohort - its background, structure and aim:

    Jørn Olsen;Mads Melbye;Sjurdur Frodi Olsen;Thorkild I.A. Sørensen

  • Data Resource Profile: The Danish National Prescription Registry.

    Anton Pottegård;Sigrun Alba Johannesdottir Schmidt;Helle Wallach-Kildemoes;Henrik Toft Sørensen

  • The predictive value of ICD-10 diagnostic coding used to assess Charlson comorbidity index conditions in the population-based Danish National Registry of Patients

    Sandra K Thygesen;Christian F Christiansen;Steffen Christensen;Timothy L Lash;Timothy L Lash

  • Survival of Persons with and without HIV Infection in Denmark, 1995–2005

    Nicolai Lohse;Ann-Brit Eg Hansen;Gitte Pedersen;Gitte Kronborg

  • The Danish health care system and epidemiological research: from health care contacts to database records

    Morten Schmidt;Sigrun Alba Johannesdottir Schmidt;Kasper Adelborg;Jens Sundbøll

  • Remote ischaemic conditioning before hospital admission, as a complement to angioplasty, and effect on myocardial salvage in patients with acute myocardial infarction: a randomised trial

    Hans Erik Bøtker;Rajesh Kharbanda;Michael R Schmidt;Morten Bøttcher

  • The Risk of a Diagnosis of Cancer after Primary Deep Venous Thrombosis or Pulmonary Embolism

    Henrik Toft Sørensen;Lene Mellemkjær;Flemming Hald Steffensen;Jørgen H. Olsen

  • Vagotomy and subsequent risk of Parkinson's disease

    Elisabeth Svensson;Erzsébet Horváth‐Puhó;Reimar W. Thomsen;Jens Christian Djurhuus

  • Percutaneous coronary angioplasty versus coronary artery bypass grafting in treatment of unprotected left main stenosis (NOBLE): a prospective, randomised, open-label, non-inferiority trial.

    Timo Mäkikallio;Niels R Holm;Mitchell Lindsay;Mark S Spence

  • Positive predictive value of cardiovascular diagnoses in the Danish National Patient Registry: a validation study.

    Jens Sundbøll;Kasper Adelborg;Troels Munch;Trine Frøslev

  • The Danish prescription registries.

    Gaist D;Sørensen Ht;Hallas J

  • A Framework for Evaluation of Secondary Data Sources for Epidemiological Research

    Henrik Toft Sørensen;Svend Sabroe;Jørn Olsen

  • The Nordic countries as a cohort for pharmacoepidemiological research.

    Kari Furu;Björn Wettermark;Morten Andersen;Jaana E Martikainen

  • Clinical course of alcoholic liver cirrhosis: A Danish population-based cohort study

    Peter Jepsen;Peter Ott;Per Kragh Andersen;Henrik Toft Sørensen

Frequent Co-Authors

Lars Pedersen
Lars Pedersen Aarhus University
Kenneth J. Rothman
Kenneth J. Rothman Boston University
Jørn Olsen
Jørn Olsen Aarhus University
Søren Paaske Johnsen
Søren Paaske Johnsen Aalborg University
Hans Erik Bøtker
Hans Erik Bøtker Aarhus University Hospital
John A. Baron
John A. Baron University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Søren Friis
Søren Friis University of Copenhagen
Victor W. Henderson
Victor W. Henderson Stanford University
Jørgen H. Olsen
Jørgen H. Olsen Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Jens Flensted Lassen
Jens Flensted Lassen University of Southern Denmark

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