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Overview

Marjan Kerkhof is affiliated with the University Medical Center Groningen in the Netherlands. Their research primarily focuses on pulmonary and respiratory medicine within the broader field of medicine.

Their work covers multiple subfields of study, including pulmonary and respiratory medicine, physiology, surgery, infectious diseases, and pediatrics, perinatology and child health. The main topics in their research involve asthma and respiratory diseases, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) research, respiratory and cough-related research, eosinophilic esophagitis, respiratory support and mechanisms, inhalation and respiratory drug delivery, and birth, development, and health.

Marjan Kerkhof has published extensively in prominent venues, with frequent publications appearing in:

  • UNC Libraries
  • International Journal of COPD
  • npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine
  • ERJ Open Research
  • The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology In Practice

Key papers authored or co-authored by Kerkhof include:

  • "Eosinophilic and Noneosinophilic Asthma" (2021), CHEST Journal
  • "Association between COPD exacerbations and lung function decline during maintenance therapy" (2020), Thorax
  • "The Long-Term Burden of COPD Exacerbations During Maintenance Therapy and Lung Function Decline" (2020), International Journal of COPD
  • "Asthma Phenotyping in Primary Care: Applying the International Severe Asthma Registry Eosinophil Phenotype Algorithm Across All Asthma Severities" (2021), The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology In Practice
  • "Factors associated with health status and exacerbations in COPD maintenance therapy with dry powder inhalers" (2022), npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine

Marjan Kerkhof collaborates regularly with several researchers, including:

  • David Price
  • Janwillem Kocks
  • Trung N. Tran
  • Victoria Carter
  • Mohsen Sadatsafavi

Best Publications

  • DNA Methylation in Newborns and Maternal Smoking in Pregnancy: Genome-wide Consortium Meta-analysis

    Bonnie R. Joubert;Janine F. Felix;Paul Yousefi;Kelly M. Bakulski

  • Air pollution from traffic and the development of respiratory infections and asthmatic and allergic symptoms in children

    Michael Brauer;Gerard Hoek;Patricia Van Vliet;Kees Meliefste

  • Air pollution and development of asthma, allergy and infections in a birth cohort.

    M. Brauer;G. Hoek;H. A. Smit;J. C. de Jongste

  • Traffic-related air pollution and the development of asthma and allergies during the first 8 years of life.

    Ulrike Gehring;Alet H. Wijga;Michael Brauer;Paul Fischer

  • Blood eosinophil count and prospective annual asthma disease burden: a UK cohort study

    David B Price;Anna Rigazio;Jonathan D Campbell;Eugene R Bleecker

  • Mode and place of delivery, gastrointestinal microbiota, and their influence on asthma and atopy

    Frederika A. van Nimwegen;John Penders;Ellen E. Stobberingh;Dirkje S. Postma

  • Air pollution exposure and lung function in children: the ESCAPE project.

    Ulrike Gehring;Olena Gruzieva;Raymond M Agius;Rob Beelen

  • Adverse outcomes from initiation of systemic corticosteroids for asthma: long-term observational study.

    David B Price;Frank Trudo;Jaco Voorham;Xiao Xu

  • Comparison of childhood wheezing phenotypes in 2 birth cohorts: ALSPAC and PIAMA

    Olga E. Savenije;Raquel Granell;Daan Caudri;Gerard H. Koppelman

  • Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies identifies three new risk loci for atopic dermatitis.

    Lavinia Paternoster;Marie Standl;Chih-Mei Chen;Adaikalavan Ramasamy

  • Comorbidity of eczema, rhinitis, and asthma in IgE-sensitised and non-IgE-sensitised children in MeDALL: a population-based cohort study

    Mariona Pinart;Marta Benet;Isabella Annesi-Maesano;Isabella Annesi-Maesano;Andrea von Berg

  • The prevention and incidence of asthma and mite allergy (PIAMA) birth cohort study: design and first results.

    Bert Brunekreef;Jet Smit;Johan De Jongste;Herman Neijens

  • New loci associated with birth weight identify genetic links between intrauterine growth and adult height and metabolism.

    Momoko Horikoshi;Hanieh Yaghootkar;Dennis O. Mook-Kanamori;Dennis O. Mook-Kanamori;Ulla Sovio;Ulla Sovio

  • Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies identifies ten loci influencing allergic sensitization

    Klaus Bønnelykke;Melanie C Matheson;Tune Hannes Pers;Raquel Granell

  • Variants in ADCY5 and near CCNL1 are associated with fetal growth and birth weight

    R M Freathy;D O Mook-Kanamori;U Sovio;I Prokopenko

  • Eosinophilic and Noneosinophilic Asthma: An Expert Consensus Framework to Characterize Phenotypes in a Global Real-Life Severe Asthma Cohort.

    Liam G. Heaney;Luis Perez de Llano;Mona Al-Ahmad;Vibeke Backer

  • MeDALL (Mechanisms of the Development of ALLergy): an integrated approach from phenotypes to systems medicine

    J. Bousquet;J. Anto;C. Auffray;M. Akdis

  • DNA methylation in childhood asthma: an epigenome-wide meta-analysis

    Cheng-Jian Xu;Cilla Söderhäll;Mariona Bustamante;Nour Baïz

  • Genome-wide Association and Longitudinal Analyses Reveal Genetic Loci Linking Pubertal Height Growth, Pubertal Timing, and Childhood Adiposity

    Diana L. Cousminer;Diane J. Berry;Nicholas J. Timpson;Wei Ang

  • Association of IL33–IL-1 receptor–like 1 (IL1RL1) pathway polymorphisms with wheezing phenotypes and asthma in childhood

    Olga E. Savenije;Jestinah M. Mahachie John;Raquel Granell;Marjan Kerkhof

  • Does early indoor microbial exposure reduce the risk of asthma? The Prevention and Incidence of Asthma and Mite Allergy birth cohort study

    Jeroen Douwes;Jeroen Douwes;Rob van Strien;Gert Doekes;Jet Smit

  • New loci associated with birth weight identify genetic links between intrauterine growth and adult height and metabolism

    Momoko Horikoshi;Hanieh Yaghootkar;Dennis O. Mook-Kanamori;Ulla Sovio

  • The Prevention and Incidence of Asthma and Mite Allergy (PIAMA) birth cohort study: Design and first results

    B Brunekreef;J Smit;J de Jongste;H Neijens

Frequent Co-Authors

Bert Brunekreef
Bert Brunekreef Utrecht University
Gerard H. Koppelman
Gerard H. Koppelman University Medical Center Groningen
Dirkje S. Postma
Dirkje S. Postma University Medical Center Groningen
Alet H. Wijga
Alet H. Wijga Centre for Health Protection
Henriette A. Smit
Henriette A. Smit Utrecht University
Ulrike Gehring
Ulrike Gehring Utrecht University
David Price
David Price University of Aberdeen
Erik Melén
Erik Melén Karolinska Institute
Johan C. de Jongste
Johan C. de Jongste Erasmus University Rotterdam
Joachim Heinrich
Joachim Heinrich Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

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