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Kaare Christensen is affiliated with the University of Southern Denmark in Denmark. Their research spans several interconnected fields, primarily focusing on medicine, biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology.

The main fields of study for Christensen include:

  • Medicine
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Their work also covers a range of subfields such as:

  • Genetics
  • Molecular Biology
  • Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
  • Physiology
  • Health

Christensen's research topics focus notably on:

  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Health Disparities and Outcomes
  • Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
  • Cognitive Abilities and Testing
  • Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms

Among recent publications, Christensen has contributed to the following papers:

  • Genome-wide association studies identify 137 genetic loci for DNA methylation biomarkers of aging, 2021, published in Genome Biology
  • Sex and age differences in COVID-19 mortality in Europe, 2020, published in Wiener klinische Wochenschrift
  • Association of Leukocyte Telomere Length With Mortality Among Adult Participants in 3 Longitudinal Studies, 2020, published in JAMA Network Open
  • TET2 mutations are associated with hypermethylation at key regulatory enhancers in normal and malignant hematopoiesis, 2021, published in Nature Communications
  • Do men avoid seeking medical advice? A register-based analysis of gender-specific changes in primary healthcare use after first hospitalisation at ages 60+ in Denmark, 2020, published in Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated extensively with Christensen include:

  • Marianne Nygaard
  • Jonas Mengel-From
  • Mary K. Wojczynski
  • Joseph M. Zmuda
  • Mary F. Feitosa

Christensen's work appears regularly in the following publication venues:

  • Innovation in Aging
  • The Journals of Gerontology Series A
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Twin Research and Human Genetics
  • Aging Cell

Best Publications

  • Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults

    Leandra Abarca-Gómez;Ziad A Abdeen;Zargar Abdul Hamid;Niveen M Abu-Rmeileh

  • Trends in adult body-mass index in 200 countries from 1975 to 2014: A pooled analysis of 1698 population-based measurement studies with 19.2 million participants

    Mariachiara Di Cesare;Mariachiara Di Cesare;James Bentham;Gretchen A Stevens;Bin Zhou

  • Ageing populations: the challenges ahead

    Kaare Christensen;Gabriele Doblhammer;Roland Rau;James W Vaupel

  • Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: a pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants

    Bin Zhou;Rodrigo M Carrillo-Larco;Goodarz Danaei;Leanne M Riley

  • A century of trends in adult human height

    James Bentham;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Gretchen A. Stevens;Bin Zhou

  • Novel genetic associations for blood pressure identified via gene-alcohol interaction in up to 570K individuals across multiple ancestries

    Mary F. Feitosa;Aldi T. Kraja;Daniel I. Chasman;Yun J. Sung

  • Familial Risk and Heritability of Cancer Among Twins in Nordic Countries.

    Lorelei A Mucci;Lorelei A Mucci;Jacob B Hjelmborg;Jennifer R Harris;Kamila Czene

  • Telomere Fluorescence Measurements in Granulocytes and T Lymphocyte Subsets Point to a High Turnover of Hematopoietic Stem Cells and Memory T Cells in Early Childhood

    Nathalie Rufer;Tim H. Brümmendorf;Steen Kolvraa;Claus Bischoff

  • Survival, disabilities in activities of daily living, and physical and cognitive functioning among the oldest-old in China: a cohort study.

    Yi Zeng;Yi Zeng;Qiushi Feng;Therese Hesketh;Therese Hesketh;Kaare Christensen

  • Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults

    Honor Bixby;James Bentham;Bin Zhou;Mariachiara Di Cesare

  • Interferon regulatory factor 6 (IRF6) gene variants and the risk of isolated cleft lip or palate.

    Theresa M. Zucchero;Margaret E. Cooper;Brion S. Maher;Sandra Daack-Hirsch

  • Men: good health and high mortality. Sex differences in health and aging*

    Anna Oksuzyan;Anna Oksuzyan;Knud Juel;James W. Vaupel;Kaare Christensen

  • Heritability of Schizophrenia and Schizophrenia Spectrum Based on the Nationwide Danish Twin Register

    Rikke Hilker;Rikke Hilker;Dorte Helenius;Birgitte Fagerlund;Axel Skytthe

  • A genome-wide association study of cleft lip with and without cleft palate identifies risk variants near MAFB and ABCA4

    Terri H. Beaty;Jeffrey C. Murray;Mary L. Marazita;Ronald G. Munger

  • The quest for genetic determinants of human longevity: challenges and insights

    Kaare Christensen;Thomas E. Johnson;James W. Vaupel

  • Evidence for a major role of heredity in Graves' disease: a population-based study of two Danish twin cohorts.

    Thomas Heiberg Brix;Thomas Heiberg Brix;Kirsten Ohm Kyvik;Kaare Christensen;Laszlo Hegedüs

  • Disruption of an AP-2 alpha binding site in an IRF6 enhancer is associated with cleft lip

    Fedik Rahimov;Mary L Marazita;Axel Visel;Margaret E Cooper

  • Gender and telomere length : systematic review and meta-analysis

    Michael Gardner;David Bann;Laura Wiley;Rachel Cooper

  • Genetic influence on human lifespan and longevity

    Jacob v. B. Hjelmborg;Ivan Iachine;Axel Skytthe;James W. Vaupel

  • Causal Inference and Observational Research: The Utility of Twins

    Matt McGue;Merete Osler;Kaare Christensen

Frequent Co-Authors

Lene Christiansen
Lene Christiansen University of Southern Denmark
James W. Vaupel
James W. Vaupel University of Southern Denmark
Matt McGue
Matt McGue University of Minnesota
Kirsten Ohm Kyvik
Kirsten Ohm Kyvik University of Southern Denmark
Merete Osler
Merete Osler University of Copenhagen
Jaakko Kaprio
Jaakko Kaprio University of Helsinki
Jørn Olsen
Jørn Olsen Aarhus University
Nancy L. Pedersen
Nancy L. Pedersen Karolinska Institute
Jeffrey C. Murray
Jeffrey C. Murray University of Iowa
Thorkild I. A. Sørensen
Thorkild I. A. Sørensen University of Copenhagen

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