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Medicine
Switzerland
2023

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Medicine

D-Index
99
Citations
53350
World Ranking
8431
National Ranking
117

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Switzerland Leader Award

Overview

Marcel Zwahlen is affiliated with the University of Bern in Switzerland. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Medicine, with significant contributions in subfields such as Surgery, Epidemiology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Infectious Diseases, and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging.

The scientist's research encompasses a variety of topics, including:

  • Eosinophilic Esophagitis
  • Radioactivity and Radon Measurements
  • Radiation Dose and Imaging
  • Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
  • Respiratory viral infections research
  • HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
  • Dental Implant Techniques and Outcomes

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Marcel Zwahlen include:

  • COVID-19 epidemic in Switzerland: on the importance of testing, contact tracing and isolation, 2020, Swiss Medical Weekly
  • Most published meta-regression analyses based on aggregate data suffer from methodological pitfalls: a meta-epidemiological study, 2021, BMC Medical Research Methodology
  • Hemicolectomy versus appendectomy for patients with appendiceal neuroendocrine tumours 1-2 cm in size: a retrospective, Europe-wide, pooled cohort study, 2023, The Lancet Oncology
  • Public willingness to participate in personalized health research and biobanking: A large-scale Swiss survey, 2021, PLoS ONE
  • Comparing the clinical performance and cost efficacy of [68Ga]Ga-PSMA-11 and [18F]PSMA-1007 in the diagnosis of recurrent prostate cancer: a Markov chain decision analysis, 2021, European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

Marcel Zwahlen has frequently collaborated with several researchers, including:

  • Matthias Egger
  • Claudia Berlin
  • Murielle Bochud
  • Jean-Luc Bulliard
  • Kaspar Staub

The scientist's work is published frequently in several venues, notably:

  • Swiss Medical Weekly
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Schweizerische Ärztezeitung
  • UNC Libraries
  • Bulletin des Médecins Suisses

Best Publications

  • Body-mass index and incidence of cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective observational studies

    Andrew G Renehan;Margaret Tyson;Matthias Egger;Matthias Egger;Richard F Heller

  • Insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-I, IGF binding protein-3, and cancer risk: systematic review and meta-regression analysis

    Andrew G Renehan;Marcel Zwahlen;Christoph Minder;Sarah T O'Dwyer

  • Outcomes associated with drug-eluting and bare-metal stents: a collaborative network meta-analysis

    Christoph Stettler;Christoph Stettler;Simon Wandel;Sabin Allemann;Adnan Kastrati

  • A systematic review of the 5-year survival and complication rates of implant-supported single crowns

    Ronald E. Jung;Bjarni E. Pjetursson;Roland Glauser;Anja Zembic

  • Sexual transmission of HIV according to viral load and antiretroviral therapy: systematic review and meta-analysis

    Suzanna Attia;Matthias Egger;Monika Müller;Marcel Zwahlen

  • Systematic review of the survival rate and the incidence of biological, technical, and aesthetic complications of single crowns on implants reported in longitudinal studies with a mean follow-up of 5 years

    Ronald E. Jung;Anja Zembic;Bjarni E. Pjetursson;Marcel Zwahlen

  • Comparison of survival and complication rates of tooth-supported fixed dental prostheses (FDPs) and implant-supported FDPs and single crowns (SCs)

    Bjarni E. Pjetursson;Urs Brägger;Niklaus P. Lang;Marcel Zwahlen

  • A systematic review of the survival and complication rates of fixed partial dentures (FPDs) after an observation period of at least 5 years

    Bjarni E Pjetursson;Ken Tan;Niklaus P Lang;Urs Brägger

  • A systematic review of the success of sinus floor elevation and survival of implants inserted in combination with sinus floor elevation

    Bjarni Elvar Pjetursson;Wah Ching Tan;Marcel Zwahlen;Niklaus P. Lang;Niklaus P. Lang

  • A systematic review of the survival and complication rates of implant-supported fixed dental prostheses (FDPs) after a mean observation period of at least 5 years.

    Bjarni E. Pjetursson;Daniel Thoma;Ronald Jung;Marcel Zwahlen

  • Domains of physical activity and all-cause mortality: systematic review and dose–response meta-analysis of cohort studies

    Guenther Samitz;Matthias Egger;Marcel Zwahlen

  • All-ceramic or metal-ceramic tooth-supported fixed dental prostheses (FDPs)? A systematic review of the survival and complication rates. Part I: Single crowns (SCs)

    Irena Sailer;Nikolay Alexandrovich Makarov;Daniel Stefan Thoma;Marcel Zwahlen

  • How Many Cancer Patients Use Complementary and Alternative Medicine: A Systematic Review and Metaanalysis

    Markus Horneber;Gerd Bueschel;Gabriele Dennert;Danuta Less

  • Computer technology applications in surgical implant dentistry: a systematic review.

    Ronald E. Jung;David Schneider;Jeffrey Ganeles;Daniel Wismeijer

  • A systematic review of the survival and complication rates of fixed partial dentures (FPDs) after an observation period of at least 5 years - II: combined tooth-implant-supported FPDs

    Niklaus P Lang;Bjarni E Pjetursson;Ken Tan;Urs Brägger

  • Influence of residual pockets on progression of periodontitis and tooth loss: Results after 11 years of maintenance

    Giedre Matuliene;Bjarni E. Pjetursson;Giovanni E. Salvi;Kurt Schmidlin

  • Selenium for preventing cancer

    Gabriele Dennert;Marcel Zwahlen;Maree Brinkman;Marco Vinceti

  • A systematic review of the survival and complication rates of all‐ceramic and metal–ceramic reconstructions after an observation period of at least 3 years. Part II: fixed dental prostheses.

    Irena Sailer;Bjarni E. Pjetursson;Marcel Zwahlen;Christoph H. F. Hämmerle

  • Recombinant human erythropoiesis-stimulating agents and mortality in patients with cancer: a meta-analysis of randomised trials.

    Julia Bohlius;Kurt Schmidlin;Corinne Brillant;Guido Schwarzer

  • Adiposity and cancer risk: new mechanistic insights from epidemiology

    Andrew G. Renehan;Marcel Zwahlen;Matthias Egger

Frequent Co-Authors

Matthias Egger
Matthias Egger University of Bern
Claudia E. Kuehni
Claudia E. Kuehni University of Bern
Niklaus P. Lang
Niklaus P. Lang University of Bern
Peter Jüni
Peter Jüni University of Oxford
Evan S. Dellon
Evan S. Dellon University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Andrew G Renehan
Andrew G Renehan University of Manchester
Urs Brägger
Urs Brägger University of Bern
Glenn T. Furuta
Glenn T. Furuta University of Colorado Denver
Nicola Low
Nicola Low University of Bern
Andreas F. Widmer
Andreas F. Widmer University Hospital of Basel

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