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Karl-Heinz Jöckel is affiliated with the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany. Their research focuses primarily on medicine, with a specialization in areas such as health, toxicology and mutagenesis; pulmonary and respiratory medicine; general health professions; cardiology and cardiovascular medicine; and public health, environmental and occupational health.

Their published work covers a variety of main topics including air quality and health impacts, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, climate change and health impacts, noise effects and management, health disparities and outcomes, health and medical studies, as well as COVID-19 clinical research studies.

Frequent publication venues for Jöckel include Scientific Reports, Bundesgesundheitsblatt - Gesundheitsforschung - Gesundheitsschutz, PLoS ONE, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and Deutsches Ärzteblatt international.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Jöckel are Andreas Stang, Börge Schmidt, Susanne Moebus, Sara Schramm, and Nils Lehmann.

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Jöckel are:

  • Long-term exposure to low ambient air pollution concentrations and mortality among 28 million people: results from seven large European cohorts within the ELAPSE project, 2022, The Lancet Planetary Health
  • Long term exposure to low level air pollution and mortality in eight European cohorts within the ELAPSE project: pooled analysis, 2021, BMJ
  • Framework and baseline examination of the German National Cohort (NAKO), 2022, European Journal of Epidemiology
  • ACE2 polymorphism and susceptibility for SARS-CoV-2 infection and severity of COVID-19, 2021, Pharmacogenetics and Genomics
  • Comparing SARS-CoV-2 with SARS-CoV and influenza pandemics, 2020, The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Best Publications

  • Genome-wide association study identifies variants at CLU and PICALM associated with Alzheimer's disease

    Denise Harold;Richard Abraham;Paul Hollingworth;Rebecca Sims

  • 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

  • Erratum: Genome-wide association study identifies variants at CLU and PICALM associated with Alzheimer's disease (Nature Genetics (2009) 41 (1088-1093))

    D Harold;R Abraham;P Hollingworth;R Sims

  • Common variants at ABCA7, MS4A6A/MS4A4E, EPHA1, CD33 and CD2AP are associated with Alzheimer's disease.

    Paul Hollingworth;Denise Harold;Rebecca Sims;Amy Gerrish

  • Large-scale association analysis provides insights into the genetic architecture and pathophysiology of type 2 diabetes

    Andrew P Morris;Benjamin F Voight;Benjamin F Voight;Tanya M Teslovich;Teresa Ferreira

  • Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology

    Adam E. Locke;Bratati Kahali;Sonja I. Berndt;Anne E. Justice

  • Genome-wide association study identifies 74 loci associated with educational attainment

    Aysu Okbay;Jonathan P. Beauchamp;Mark Alan Fontana;James J. Lee

  • Identification of 15 new psoriasis susceptibility loci highlights the role of innate immunity

    Lam C. Tsoi;Sarah L. Spain;Sarah L. Spain;Jo Knight;Eva Ellinghaus;Eva Ellinghaus

  • Genetic variants associated with subjective well-being, depressive symptoms, and neuroticism identified through genome-wide analyses

    Aysu Okbay;Bart M L Baselmans;Jan-Emmanuel De Neve;Patrick Turley

  • Genome-wide trans-ancestry meta-analysis provides insight into the genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes susceptibility.

    Anubha Mahajan;Min Jin Go;Weihua Zhang;Jennifer E. Below

  • Aging of blood can be tracked by DNA methylation changes at just three CpG sites.

    Carola Ingrid Weidner;Qiong Lin;Carmen Maike Koch;Lewin Eisele

  • Long working hours and risk of coronary heart disease and stroke : a systematic review and meta-analysis of published and unpublished data for 603 838 individuals

    Mika Kivimäki;Mika Kivimäki;Markus Jokela;Solja T. Nyberg;Archana Singh-Manoux;Archana Singh-Manoux

  • Genetic evidence implicates the immune system and cholesterol metabolism in the aetiology of Alzheimer's disease.

    Lesley Jones;Peter A. Holmans;Marian L. Hamshere;Denise Harold

  • Coronary risk stratification, discrimination, and reclassification improvement based on quantification of subclinical coronary atherosclerosis: the Heinz Nixdorf Recall study.

    Raimund Erbel;Stefan Möhlenkamp;Susanne Moebus;Axel Schmermund

  • Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies 11 new loci for anthropometric traits and provides insights into genetic architecture

    Sonja I Berndt;Stefan Gustafsson;Stefan Gustafsson;Reedik Mägi;Reedik Mägi;Andrea Ganna

  • Assessment of clinically silent atherosclerotic disease and established and novel risk factors for predicting myocardial infarction and cardiac death in healthy middle-aged subjects: Rationale and design of the Heinz Nixdorf RECALL Study

    Axel Schmermund;Stefan Möhlenkamp;Andreas Stang;Dietrich Grönemeyer

  • An Expanded Genome-Wide Association Study of Type 2 Diabetes in Europeans

    Robert A. Scott;Laura J. Scott;Reedik Mägi;Letizia Marullo

  • Long term exposure to ambient air pollution and incidence of acute coronary events: prospective cohort study and meta-analysis in 11 European cohorts from the ESCAPE Project

    Giulia Cesaroni;Francesco Forastiere;Massimo Stafoggia;Zorana J Andersen

  • Genome-wide association study identifies variants at CLU and PICALM associated with Alzheimertextquotesingles disease

    Denise Harold;Richard Abraham;Paul Hollingworth;Rebecca Sims

  • Genetic variants associated with subjective well-being, depressive symptoms, and neuroticism identified through genome-wide analyses

    Aysu Okbay;Bart M. L. Baselmans;Jan-Emmanuel De Neve;Patrick Turley

Frequent Co-Authors

Susanne Moebus
Susanne Moebus University of Duisburg-Essen
Raimund Erbel
Raimund Erbel University of Duisburg-Essen
Barbara Hoffmann
Barbara Hoffmann Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Markus M. Nöthen
Markus M. Nöthen University Hospital Bonn
Per Hoffmann
Per Hoffmann University of Bonn
Johannes Siegrist
Johannes Siegrist Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Thomas Brüning
Thomas Brüning Ruhr University Bochum
Paolo Boffetta
Paolo Boffetta Stony Brook Medicine
Jack Siemiatycki
Jack Siemiatycki University of Montreal
Franco Merletti
Franco Merletti University of Turin

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