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  • 2016 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Overview

Igor Rudan is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with a substantial number of publications in related subfields such as infectious diseases, health, epidemiology, genetics, and molecular biology.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics related to vaccine coverage and hesitancy, COVID-19 clinical research studies, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, genetic associations and epidemiology, COVID-19 and healthcare impacts, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, and COVID-19 impact on reproduction.

Among their recent papers are:

  • Global and regional prevalence, burden, and risk factors for carotid atherosclerosis: a systematic review, meta-analysis, and modelling study (2020) published in The Lancet Global Health
  • The prevalence of adult attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder: A global systematic review and meta-analysis (2021) published in Journal of Global Health
  • Can ChatGPT draft a research article? An example of population-level vaccine effectiveness analysis (2023) published in Journal of Global Health
  • Severe COVID-19 outcomes after full vaccination of primary schedule and initial boosters: pooled analysis of national prospective cohort studies of 30 million individuals in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales (2022) published in The Lancet
  • Global, regional, and national prevalence of asthma in 2019: a systematic analysis and modelling study (2022) published in Journal of Global Health

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Igor Rudan include:

  • Aziz Sheikh
  • Ozren Polašek
  • Caroline Hayward
  • Chris Robertson
  • Colin R Simpson

Their work appears regularly in several journals and publication venues, notably:

  • Journal of Global Health
  • UNC Libraries
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Nature Communications
  • The Lancet Respiratory Medicine

Igor Rudan was awarded the title of Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2016.

Best Publications

  • Global, regional, and national causes of child mortality: An updated systematic analysis for 2010 with time trends since 2000

    Li Liu;Hope L Johnson;Simon Cousens;Jamie Perin

  • Global, regional, and national causes of child mortality in 2008: a systematic analysis

    Robert E Black;Simon Cousens;Hope L Johnson;Joy E Lawn

  • Biological, clinical and population relevance of 95 loci for blood lipids

    Tanya M. Teslovich;Kiran Musunuru;Albert V. Smith;Andrew C. Edmondson

  • Global, regional, and national causes of child mortality in 2000-13, with projections to inform post-2015 priorities: an updated systematic analysis.

    Lei Liu;Shefali Oza;Daniel Hogan;Jamie Perin

  • Comparison of global estimates of prevalence and risk factors for peripheral artery disease in 2000 and 2010: a systematic review and analysis

    F Gerald R Fowkes;Diana Rudan;Igor Rudan;Victor Aboyans

  • Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index

    Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Cristen J. Willer;Sonja I. Berndt;Keri L. Monda

  • Global burden of acute lower respiratory infections due to respiratory syncytial virus in young children: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    Harish Nair;Harish Nair;D James Nokes;D James Nokes;Bradford D. Gessner;Mukesh K Dherani

  • Discovery and refinement of loci associated with lipid levels

    Cristen J. Willer;Ellen M. Schmidt;Sebanti Sengupta;Gina M. Peloso;Gina M. Peloso;Gina M. Peloso

  • Global burden of childhood pneumonia and diarrhoea

    Christa L Fischer Walker;Igor Rudan;Li Liu;Harish Nair;Harish Nair

  • New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk

    Josée Dupuis;Josée Dupuis;Claudia Langenberg;Inga Prokopenko;Richa Saxena;Richa Saxena

  • Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height

    Hana Lango Allen;Karol Estrada;Guillaume Lettre;Sonja I. Berndt

  • Genetic variants in novel pathways influence blood pressure and cardiovascular disease risk

    Georg B. Ehret;Georg B. Ehret;Georg B. Ehret;Patricia B. Munroe;Kenneth M. Rice;Murielle Bochud

  • 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

  • Epidemiology and etiology of childhood pneumonia

    Igor Rudan;Cynthia Boschi-Pinto;Zrinka Biloglav;Kim Mulholland

  • New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk (vol 42, pg 105, 2010)

    J Dupuis;C Langenberg;I Prokopenko;R Saxena

  • Twelve type 2 diabetes susceptibility loci identified through large-scale association analysis

    Benjamin F. Voight;Benjamin F. Voight;Laura J. Scott;Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir;Andrew P. Morris

  • Guidelines for Accurate and Transparent Health Estimates Reporting: the GATHER Statement

    Gretchen A. Stevens;Leontine Alkema;Robert E. Black;J. Ties Boerma

  • A genome-wide association search for type 2 diabetes genes in African Americans.

    N D Palmer;C W McDonough;P J Hicks;B H Roh

  • Erratum: New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk (Nature Genetics (2010) 42 (105-116))

    Josée Dupuis;Claudia Langenberg;Inga Prokopenko;Richa Saxena

  • Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height

    H. Lango Allen;K. Estrada;G. Lettre;S. I. Berndt

Frequent Co-Authors

Harry Campbell
Harry Campbell University of Edinburgh
Caroline Hayward
Caroline Hayward University of Edinburgh
Ozren Polasek
Ozren Polasek University of Split
James F. Wilson
James F. Wilson University of Edinburgh
Veronique Vitart
Veronique Vitart University of Edinburgh
André G. Uitterlinden
André G. Uitterlinden Erasmus University Rotterdam
Albert V. Smith
Albert V. Smith University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Tim D. Spector
Tim D. Spector King's College London
Tonu Esko
Tonu Esko University of Tartu
Albert Hofman
Albert Hofman Harvard University

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