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Overview

Mark Hamer is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research is primarily situated within the field of Medicine, with significant contributions to public health, environmental and occupational health, physiology, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, clinical psychology, and general health studies.

Their work spans several key topics related to physical activity, health, and disease, notably:

  • Physical Activity and Health
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Cardiovascular and exercise physiology
  • Nutritional Studies and Diet
  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • Sleep and related disorders

Mark Hamer has published numerous articles with frequent appearances in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports, Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, American Journal of Epidemiology, and International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

Their recent notable publications include:

  • "Lifestyle risk factors, inflammatory mechanisms, and COVID-19 hospitalization: A community-based cohort study of 387,109 adults in UK" (2020) published in Brain Behavior and Immunity
  • "Sleep and physical activity in relation to all-cause, cardiovascular disease and cancer mortality risk" (2021) published in British Journal of Sports Medicine
  • "Association of wearable device-measured vigorous intermittent lifestyle physical activity with mortality" (2022) published in Nature Medicine
  • "Effects of Regular Physical Activity on the Immune System, Vaccination and Risk of Community-Acquired Infectious Disease in the General Population: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis" (2021) published in Sports Medicine
  • "Association of Healthy Lifestyle With Years Lived Without Major Chronic Diseases" (2020) published in JAMA Internal Medicine

Their work often involves collaboration with several frequent co-authors, including Emmanuel Stamatakis, Joanna M. Blodgett, Matthew Ahmadi, G. David Batty, and Annemarie Koster.

Best Publications

  • The effects of acute psychological stress on circulating inflammatory factors in humans: a review and meta-analysis.

    Andrew Steptoe;Mark Hamer;Yoichi Chida

  • Do stress-related psychosocial factors contribute to cancer incidence and survival?

    Yoichi Chida;Mark Hamer;Jane Wardle;Andrew Steptoe

  • Job strain as a risk factor for coronary heart disease: a collaborative meta-analysis of individual participant data.

    Mika Kivimäki;Mika Kivimäki;Mika Kivimäki;Solja T. Nyberg;G. David Batty;G. David Batty;Eleonor I. Fransson;Eleonor I. Fransson;Eleonor I. Fransson

  • Physical activity and risk of neurodegenerative disease: a systematic review of prospective evidence.

    M. Hamer;Y. Chida

  • The ABC of physical activity for health: A consensus statement from the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences

    Gary O'Donovan;Anthony J Blazevich;Colin Boreham;Ashley R Cooper

  • Chronic psychosocial factors and acute physiological responses to laboratory-induced stress in healthy populations: a quantitative review of 30 years of investigations.

    Yoichi Chida;Mark Hamer

  • Active commuting and cardiovascular risk: A meta-analytic review

    Mark Hamer;Yoichi Chida

  • 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

  • Association between psychological distress and mortality: individual participant pooled analysis of 10 prospective cohort studies

    Tom C Russ;Emmanuel Stamatakis;Mark Hamer;John M Starr

  • Social isolation and loneliness: relationships with cognitive function during 4 years of follow-up in the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing.

    Aparna Shankar;Mark Hamer;Anne McMunn;Andrew Steptoe

  • Overweight, obesity, and risk of cardiometabolic multimorbidity: pooled analysis of individual-level data for 120 813 adults from 16 cohort studies from the USA and Europe

    Mika Kivimaki;Mika Kivimaki;Mika Kivimaki;Eeva Kuosma;Jane E. Ferrie;Jane E. Ferrie;Ritva Luukkonen

  • Metabolically Healthy Obesity and Risk of All-Cause and Cardiovascular Disease Mortality

    Mark Hamer;Emmanuel Stamatakis

  • Lifestyle risk factors, inflammatory mechanisms, and COVID-19 hospitalization: A community-based cohort study of 387,109 adults in UK.

    Mark Hamer;Mika Kivimäki;Catharine R. Gale;G. David Batty

  • Sitting time, physical activity, and risk of mortality in adults

    Emmanuel Stamatakis;Joanne Gale;Adrian Bauman;Ulf Ekelund

  • Measures of frailty in population-based studies: an overview

    Kim Bouillon;Mika Kivimaki;Mika Kivimaki;Mark Hamer;Severine Sabia

  • Walking and primary prevention: a meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies

    Mark Hamer;Yoichi Chida

  • The sedentary office: an expert statement on the growing case for change towards better health and productivity

    John P. Buckley;Alan Hedge;Thomas Yates;Robert J. Copeland

  • Screen-based entertainment time, all-cause mortality, and cardiovascular events: population-based study with ongoing mortality and hospital events follow-up.

    Emmanuel Stamatakis;Mark Hamer;David W. Dunstan;David W. Dunstan;David W. Dunstan

  • Metabolically healthy obesity and risk of incident type 2 diabetes: a meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies

    Joshua A. Bell;Mika Kivimaki;Mark Hamer

  • Job strain as a risk factor for coronary heart disease

    Mika Kivimäki;Solja T Nyberg;G David Batty;Eleonor I Fransson

Frequent Co-Authors

Emmanuel Stamatakis
Emmanuel Stamatakis University of Sydney
Mika Kivimäki
Mika Kivimäki University College London
Andrew Steptoe
Andrew Steptoe University College London
G. David Batty
G. David Batty University College London
Jussi Vahtera
Jussi Vahtera Turku University Hospital
Lee Smith
Lee Smith Anglia Ruskin University
Jane E. Ferrie
Jane E. Ferrie University College London
Lars Alfredsson
Lars Alfredsson Karolinska Institute
Marianna Virtanen
Marianna Virtanen University of Eastern Finland

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