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Margreet Kloppenburg is affiliated with Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands and conducts research primarily in the field of medicine. Their work focuses on rheumatology, surgery, pharmacology, economics and econometrics, as well as orthopedics and sports medicine.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics such as rheumatoid arthritis research and therapies, osteoarthritis treatment and mechanisms, musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation, health systems, economic evaluations, quality of life, musculoskeletal disorders and rehabilitation, systemic lupus erythematosus research, and the Delphi technique in research.

Margreet Kloppenburg has published numerous papers in various respected venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism
  • Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
  • Osteoarthritis and Cartilage
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Lara D. Veeken

Some of their recent significant papers are:

  • Global, regional and national burden of osteoarthritis 1990-2017: a systematic analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017, 2020, Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
  • Global low back pain prevalence and years lived with disability from 1990 to 2017: estimates from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017, 2020, Annals of Translational Medicine
  • Osteoarthritis in 2020 and beyond: a Lancet Commission, 2020, The Lancet
  • Global, regional, and national burden of neck pain in the general population, 1990-2017: systematic analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017, 2020, BMJ
  • Prevalence, Deaths, and Disability-Adjusted Life Years Due to Musculoskeletal Disorders for 195 Countries and Territories 1990-2017, 2020, Arthritis & Rheumatology

The scientist often collaborates with several coauthors who have contributed extensively alongside them. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Marita Cross
  • Catherine Hill
  • Peter Tugwell
  • Rachelle Buchbinder
  • Anthony D. Woolf

Best Publications

  • Synovial inflammation, immune cells and their cytokines in osteoarthritis: a review

    B.J.E. de Lange-Brokaar;A. Ioan-Facsinay;G.J.V.M. van Osch;A.-M. Zuurmond

  • The transcriptional landscape of age in human peripheral blood

    Marjolein J. Peters;Roby Joehanes;Luke C. Pilling;Claudia Schurmann;Claudia Schurmann

  • Novel Loci for Adiponectin Levels and Their Influence on Type 2 Diabetes and Metabolic Traits: A Multi-Ethnic Meta-Analysis of 45,891 Individuals

    Z Dastani;Hivert M-F.;Hivert M-F.;N Timpson;Perry Jrb.;Perry Jrb.

  • Association between weight or Body Mass Index and hand osteoarthritis: a systematic review

    Erlangga Yusuf;Rob G Nelissen;Andreea Ioan-Facsinay;Vedrana Stojanovic-Susulic

  • 2018 update of the EULAR recommendations for the management of hand osteoarthritis

    Margreet Kloppenburg;Féline P.B. Kroon;Francisco J. Blanco;Michael Doherty

  • EULAR evidence-based recommendations for the diagnosis of hand osteoarthritis: report of a task force of ESCISIT.

    W Zhang;M Doherty;B F Leeb;L Alekseeva

  • Osteoarthritis of the knee: association between clinical features and MR imaging findings.

    Peter R. Kornaat;Johan L. Bloem;Ruth Y. T. Ceulemans;Naghmeh Riyazi

  • Osteoarthritis year in review 2019: epidemiology and therapy.

    M. Kloppenburg;F. Berenbaum

  • Identification of new susceptibility loci for osteoarthritis (arcOGEN): A genome-wide association study

    E Zeggini;K Panoutsopoulou

  • Genome Analyses of >200,000 Individuals Identify 58 Loci for Chronic Inflammation and Highlight Pathways that Link Inflammation and Complex Disorders.

    S Ligthart;A Vaez;U Võsa;M G Stathopoulou

  • Do knee abnormalities visualised on MRI explain knee pain in knee osteoarthritis? A systematic review

    Erlangga Yusuf;Marion C Kortekaas;Iain Watt;Tom W J Huizinga

  • Smoking is a risk factor for anti-CCP antibodies only in rheumatoid arthritis patients who carry HLA-DRB1 shared epitope alleles

    S P Linn-Rasker;A H M van der Helm-van Mil;F A van Gaalen;M Kloppenburg

  • MRI assessment of knee osteoarthritis: Knee Osteoarthritis Scoring System (KOSS)—inter-observer and intra-observer reproducibility of a compartment-based scoring system

    Peter R. Kornaat;Ruth Y. T. Ceulemans;Herman M. Kroon;Naghmeh Riyazi

  • What is the evidence for the presence of a therapeutic window of opportunity in rheumatoid arthritis? A systematic literature review

    J A B van Nies;A Krabben;J W Schoones;T W J Huizinga

  • Deciphering osteoarthritis genetics across 826,690 individuals from 9 populations

    Cindy G Boer;Konstantinos Hatzikotoulas;Lorraine Southam;Lilja Stefánsdóttir

  • The infrapatellar fat pad of patients with osteoarthritis has an inflammatory phenotype

    I. R. Klein-Wieringa;M. Kloppenburg;Y. M. Bastiaansen-Jenniskens;E. Yusuf

  • Emerging pharmaceutical therapies for osteoarthritis.

    Augustin Latourte;Margreet Kloppenburg;Pascal Richette

  • A genome-wide association study identifies an osteoarthritis susceptibility locus on chromosome 7q22.

    Hanneke J M Kerkhof;Rik J Lories;Ingrid Meulenbelt;Ingileif Jonsdottir

  • Identification of DIO2 as a new susceptibility locus for symptomatic osteoarthritis

    Ingrid Meulenbelt;Josine L. Min;Steffan Bos;Naghmeh Riyazi

  • Efficacy and safety of non-pharmacological, pharmacological and surgical treatment for hand osteoarthritis: a systematic literature review informing the 2018 update of the EULAR recommendations for the management of hand osteoarthritis

    Féline P B Kroon;Loreto Carmona;Jan W Schoones;Margreet Kloppenburg

Frequent Co-Authors

Ingrid Meulenbelt
Ingrid Meulenbelt Leiden University Medical Center
Rob G. H. H. Nelissen
Rob G. H. H. Nelissen Leiden University Medical Center
Frits R. Rosendaal
Frits R. Rosendaal Leiden University Medical Center
Tim D. Spector
Tim D. Spector King's College London
P. Eline Slagboom
P. Eline Slagboom Leiden University Medical Center
Tom W. J. Huizinga
Tom W. J. Huizinga Leiden University Medical Center
Alberto M. Pereira
Alberto M. Pereira University of Amsterdam
Ana M. Valdes
Ana M. Valdes University of Nottingham
André G. Uitterlinden
André G. Uitterlinden Erasmus University Rotterdam
John Loughlin
John Loughlin Newcastle University

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