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Hugh Montgomery is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their primary field of study is Medicine, with a total of 196 publications. The research spans several subfields including Infectious Diseases, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine, Physiology, and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine.

The scientist's main research topics include:

  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Intensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders
  • Long-Term Effects of COVID-19
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • Thermoregulation and physiological responses
  • High Altitude and Hypoxia

Publications by Hugh Montgomery have appeared in a variety of venues, highlighting the diversity of their research focus. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Experimental Physiology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of the Intensive Care Society
  • PLoS ONE
  • The Lancet

Among the recent papers are:

  • The 2020 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: responding to converging crises (2020, The Lancet)
  • The 2022 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: health at the mercy of fossil fuels (2022, The Lancet)
  • Genetic mechanisms of critical illness in COVID-19 (2020, Nature)
  • The 2021 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: code red for a healthy future (2021, The Lancet)
  • Whole-genome sequencing reveals host factors underlying critical COVID-19 (2022, Nature)

Hugh Montgomery has collaborated frequently with several co-authors over their career. These frequent collaborators include:

  • Manu Shankar-Hari
  • Mike Tipton
  • Wilna Oosthuyzen
  • Charlotte Summers
  • Charles Hinds

Best Publications

  • Managing the health effects of climate change

    Anthony Costello;Mustafa Abbas;Adriana Allen;Sarah Ball

  • Clinically applicable deep learning for diagnosis and referral in retinal disease

    Jeffrey De Fauw;Joseph R. Ledsam;Bernardino Romera-Paredes;Stanislav Nikolov

  • Health and climate change: policy responses to protect public health

    Nick Watts;W. Neil Adger;Paolo Agnolucci;Jason Blackstock

  • Acute Skeletal Muscle Wasting in Critical Illness

    Zudin A. Puthucheary;Jaikitry Rawal;Mark McPhail;Mark McPhail;Bronwen Connolly;Bronwen Connolly

  • The 2020 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: responding to converging crises.

    Nick Watts;Markus Amann;Nigel Arnell;Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson

  • The 2019 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: ensuring that the health of a child born today is not defined by a changing climate

    Nick Watts;Markus Amann;Nigel Arnell;Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson

  • Genetic mechanisms of critical illness in Covid-19.

    E. Pairo-Castineira;E. Pairo-Castineira;S. Clohisey;L. Klaric;A. D. Bretherick

  • The 2021 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: code red for a healthy future.

    Marina Romanello;Alice McGushin;Claudia Di Napoli;Paul Drummond

  • The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: from 25 years of inaction to a global transformation for public health

    Nick Watts;Markus Amann;Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson;Kristine Belesova

  • A clinically applicable approach to continuous prediction of future acute kidney injury

    Nenad Tomašev;Xavier Glorot;Jack W. Rae;Michal Zielinski

  • The 2018 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: shaping the health of nations for centuries to come

    Nick Watts;Markus Amann;Nigel Arnell;Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson

  • Natural selection on EPAS1 (HIF2α) associated with low hemoglobin concentration in Tibetan highlanders

    Cynthia M. Beall;Gianpiero L. Cavalleri;Libin Deng;Robert C. Elston

  • Human gene for physical performance

    H. E. Montgomery;R. Marshall;H. Hemingway;S. Myerson

  • Human angiotensin I-converting enzyme gene and endurance performance.

    S Myerson;H Hemingway;R Budget;J Martin

  • Exercise training enhances endothelial function in young men

    Peter Clarkson;Hugh E Montgomery;Michael J Mullen;Ann E Donald

  • Interleukin-6 Gene −174G>C and −572G>C Promoter Polymorphisms Are Strong Predictors of Plasma Interleukin-6 Levels After Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery

    D.J. Brull;H.E. Montgomery;J. Sanders;S. Dhamrait

  • Arterial Blood Gases and Oxygen Content in Climbers on Mount Everest

    Michael P.W. Grocott;Daniel S. Martin;Denny Z.H. Levett;Roger McMorrow

  • Angiotensin converting enzyme insertion/deletion polymorphism is associated with susceptibility and outcome in acute respiratory distress syndrome.

    Richard P Marshall;Suzanne Webb;Geoffrey J Bellingan;Hugh E Montgomery

  • Genetics of inflammation and risk of coronary artery disease: the central role of interleukin-6

    A. Woods;D. J. Brull;S. E. Humphries;H. E. Montgomery

  • Genetic mechanisms of critical illness in Covid-19

    Erola Pairo-Castineira;Sara Clohisey;Lucija Klaric;Andrew Bretherick;Andrew Bretherick

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael P. W. Grocott
Michael P. W. Grocott University of Southampton
Steve E. Humphries
Steve E. Humphries University College London
John Moxham
John Moxham King's College London
Dudley J. Pennell
Dudley J. Pennell National Institutes of Health
Jackie A. Cooper
Jackie A. Cooper University College London
Anthony Costello
Anthony Costello University College London
Neil Marlow
Neil Marlow University College London
Mark A. Maslin
Mark A. Maslin University College London
Michael I. Polkey
Michael I. Polkey National Institutes of Health
Geraint Rees
Geraint Rees University College London

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