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Nadia N. Hansel is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University in the United States and has an extensive publication record in the field of Medicine, with a particular focus on pulmonary and respiratory medicine. Their research spans several related subfields, including physiology, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, molecular biology, and speech and hearing.

The scientist's work predominantly addresses topics related to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) research and broader respiratory health issues. Their main topics of study include:

  • Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research
  • Asthma and respiratory diseases
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Respiratory Support and Mechanisms
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Noise Effects and Management
  • Smoking Behavior and Cessation

Hansel has frequently co-authored with other researchers in the field, notably collaborating with MeiLan K. Han, Prescott G. Woodruff, Eric A. Hoffman, Christopher B. Cooper, and Fernando J. Martínez. These ongoing partnerships reflect a network of researchers focused on respiratory and pulmonary disease studies.

The scientist has published extensively in several specialized journals, including:

  • American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
  • UNC Libraries
  • Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases Journal of the COPD Foundation
  • Annals of the American Thoracic Society
  • CHEST Journal

Some recent representative papers exemplify the scope and focus of Nadia N. Hansel's work:

  • Towards the elimination of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a Lancet Commission (2022, The Lancet)
  • Association of Dysanapsis With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Among Older Adults (2020, JAMA)
  • Airway mucin MUC5AC and MUC5B concentrations and the initiation and progression of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: an analysis of the SPIROMICS cohort (2021, The Lancet Respiratory Medicine)
  • Mucus Plugs and Emphysema in the Pathophysiology of Airflow Obstruction and Hypoxemia in Smokers (2020, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine)
  • Cardiopulmonary Impact of Particulate Air Pollution in High-Risk Populations (2020, Journal of the American College of Cardiology)

Best Publications

  • Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies of asthma in ethnically diverse North American populations

    Dara G. Torgerson;Dara G. Torgerson;Elizabeth J. Ampleford;Grace Y. Chiu;W. James Gauderman

  • Severe Community-Onset Pneumonia in Healthy Adults Caused by Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Carrying the Panton-Valentine Leukocidin Genes

    John S. Francis;Meg C. Doherty;Uri Lopatin;Cecilia P. Johnston

  • Clinical Significance of Symptoms in Smokers with Preserved Pulmonary Function

    Prescott G. Woodruff;R. Graham Barr;Eugene Bleecker;Stephanie A. Christenson

  • Detectable clonal mosaicism from birth to old age and its relationship to cancer.

    Cathy C. Laurie;Cecelia A Laurie;Kenneth Rice;Kimberly F. Doheny

  • The clinical features of the overlap between COPD and asthma

    Megan Hardin;Edwin K Silverman;R Graham Barr;Nadia N Hansel

  • The minimal important difference of exercise tests in severe COPD

    M. A. Puhan;M. A. Puhan;M. A. Puhan;D. Chandra;Z. Mosenifar;A. Ries

  • Airway Mucin Concentration as a Marker of Chronic Bronchitis.

    Mehmet Kesimer;Amina A. Ford;Agathe Ceppe;Giorgia Radicioni

  • Assembly of a pan-genome from deep sequencing of 910 humans of African descent

    Rachel M. Sherman;Juliet Forman;Juliet Forman;Valentin Antonescu;Daniela Puiu

  • Frequency of exacerbations in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: an analysis of the SPIROMICS cohort

    MeiLan K Han;Pedro M Quibrera;Elizabeth E Carretta;R Graham Barr

  • Association of sputum and blood eosinophil concentrations with clinical measures of COPD severity: an analysis of the SPIROMICS cohort.

    Annette T Hastie;Fernando J Martinez;Jeffrey L Curtis;Claire M Doerschuk

  • Genome-wide association analyses for lung function and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease identify new loci and potential druggable targets

    Louise V. Wain;Louise V. Wain;Nick Shrine;María Soler Artigas;A. Mesut Erzurumluoglu

  • Mortality in patients hospitalized for asthma exacerbations in the United States.

    Vidya Krishnan;Gregory B. Diette;Cynthia S. Rand;Andrew L. Bilderback

  • Indoor Air Pollution and Asthma in Children

    Patrick N. Breysse;Gregory B. Diette;Elizabeth C. Matsui;Arlene M. Butz

  • Early-Onset Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Is Associated with Female Sex, Maternal Factors, and African American Race in the COPDGene Study

    Marilyn G. Foreman;Lening Zhang;James Murphy;Nadia N. Hansel

  • The Effects of Air Pollution and Temperature on COPD.

    Nadia N. Hansel;Meredith C. McCormack;Victor Kim

  • SPIROMICS Protocol for Multicenter Quantitative Computed Tomography to Phenotype the Lungs

    Jered P. Sieren;John D. Newell;R. Graham Barr;Eugene R. Bleecker

  • Quality of life in tuberculosis: patient and provider perspectives.

    Nadia N. Hansel;Albert W. Wu;Betty Chang;Gregory B. Diette

  • A genome-wide association study on African-ancestry populations for asthma.

    Rasika A. Mathias;Audrey V. Grant;Nicholas Rafaels;Tracey Hand

  • Genetic landscape of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease identifies heterogeneous cell-type and phenotype associations

    Phuwanat Sakornsakolpat;Dmitry Prokopenko;Maxime Lamontagne;Nicola F. Reeve

  • Genome-wide association analyses for lung function and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease identify new loci and potential druggable targets

    Louise V. Wain;Nick Shrine;Maria Soler Artigas;A. Mesut Erzurumluoglu

Frequent Co-Authors

MeiLan K. Han
MeiLan K. Han University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Fernando J. Martinez
Fernando J. Martinez University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Eric A. Hoffman
Eric A. Hoffman University of Iowa
R. Graham Barr
R. Graham Barr Columbia University
Jerry A. Krishnan
Jerry A. Krishnan University of Illinois at Chicago
Mark T. Dransfield
Mark T. Dransfield University of Alabama at Birmingham
Eugene R. Bleecker
Eugene R. Bleecker University of Arizona
Jeffrey L. Curtis
Jeffrey L. Curtis University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Robert A. Wise
Robert A. Wise Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
David Couper
David Couper University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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