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103
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7168
National Ranking
699

Overview

Paul R. Burton is affiliated with Newcastle University in the United Kingdom. Their research predominantly spans the field of Medicine with a focus on Surgery, Physiology, Oncology, Artificial Intelligence, and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine as primary subfields.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including Bariatric Surgery and Outcomes, Esophageal and Gastrointestinal Pathology, COVID-19 and healthcare impacts, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research, Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data, Gastric Cancer Management and Outcomes, and Body Contouring and Surgery.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Paul R. Burton include Wendy A. Brown, Demetris Avraam, Rebecca Wilson, Kalai Shaw, and Yazmin Johari.

The researcher has a notable publication record in several venues, with multiple articles published in:

  • Obesity Surgery
  • ANZ Journal of Surgery
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • JAMA Network Open

Notable recent papers by Paul R. Burton include:

  • Hepatic lipidomic remodeling in severe obesity manifests with steatosis and does not evolve with non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (2021), Journal of Hepatology
  • Effect of Bariatric Surgery on Risk of Complications After Total Knee Arthroplasty (2022), JAMA Network Open
  • Advancing tools for human early lifecourse exposome research and translation (ATHLETE) (2021), Environmental Epidemiology
  • Associations of early-life pet ownership with asthma and allergic sensitization: A meta-analysis of more than 77,000 children from the EU Child Cohort Network (2022), Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
  • The National Aeronautics and Space Administration-task load index: NASA-TLX: evaluation of its use in surgery (2022), ANZ Journal of Surgery

Best Publications

  • UK biobank: an open access resource for identifying the causes of a wide range of complex diseases of middle and old age

    Cathie Sudlow;John Edward Gallacher;Naomi Allen;Valerie Beral

  • Genome-wide association study of 14,000 cases of seven common diseases and 3,000 shared controls

    Paul R. Burton;David G. Clayton;Lon R. Cardon;Nick Craddock

  • Rivaroxaban in Patients with a Recent Acute Coronary Syndrome

    Jessica L. Mega;Eugene Braunwald;Stephen D. Wiviott;Jean-Pierre Bassand

  • Genetic variants in novel pathways influence blood pressure and cardiovascular disease risk

    Georg B. Ehret;Georg B. Ehret;Georg B. Ehret;Patricia B. Munroe;Kenneth M. Rice;Murielle Bochud

  • Genome-wide association study identifies eight loci associated with blood pressure

    Christopher Newton-Cheh;Christopher Newton-Cheh;Toby Johnson;Toby Johnson;Vesela Gateva;Martin D. Tobin

  • Association scan of 14,500 nonsynonymous SNPs in four diseases identifies autoimmunity variants

    Paul R Burton;David G Clayton;Lon R Cardon;Nick Craddock

  • Antepartum risk factors for newborn encephalopathy: the Western Australian case-control study

    Nadia Badawi;Jennifer J Kurinczuk;John M Keogh;Louisa M Alessandri

  • Identification of seven loci affecting mean telomere length and their association with disease

    Veryan Codd;Christopher P Nelson;Eva Albrecht;Massimo Mangino

  • Genome-wide association study of CNVs in 16,000 cases of eight common diseases and 3,000 shared controls

    Nick Craddock;Matthew E. Hurles;Niall Cardin;Richard D. Pearson

  • Rivaroxaban versus placebo in patients with acute coronary syndromes (ATLAS ACS-TIMI 46): a randomised, double-blind, phase II trial

    JL Mega;E Braunwald;S Mohanavelu;P Burton

  • Association Between Breast Feeding and Asthma in 6 Year Old Children: Findings of a Prospective Birth Cohort Study

    W. H. Oddy;P. G. Holt;P. D. Sly;A. W. Read

  • Adjusting for treatment effects in studies of quantitative traits: antihypertensive therapy and systolic blood pressure.

    Martin D. Tobin;Nuala A. Sheehan;Katrina J. Scurrah;Paul R. Burton

  • Extending the simple linear regression model to account for correlated responses: an introduction to generalized estimating equations and multi-level mixed modelling.

    Paul Burton;Lyle Gurrin;Lyle Gurrin;Peter Sly;Peter Sly

  • The prevalence of metabolic syndrome and metabolically healthy obesity in Europe: a collaborative analysis of ten large cohort studies.

    Jana V van Vliet-Ostaptchouk;Marja-Liisa Nuotio;Marja-Liisa Nuotio;Sandra N Slagter;Dany Doiron

  • Localization of type 1 diabetes susceptibility to the MHC class I genes HLA-B and HLA-A

    Sergey Nejentsev;Joanna M. M. Howson;Neil M. Walker;Jeffrey Szeszko

  • Genome-wide association study identifies five loci associated with lung function.

    E Repapi;I Sayers;L V Wain;P R Burton

  • Long-Term Outcomes After Bariatric Surgery: a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Weight Loss at 10 or More Years for All Bariatric Procedures and a Single-Centre Review of 20-Year Outcomes After Adjustable Gastric Banding

    Paul E. O'Brien;Annemarie Hindle;Leah Brennan;Stewart Skinner

  • Efficacy and Safety of Epoetin Alfa in Critically Ill Patients

    Howard L. Corwin;Andrew Gettinger;Timothy C. Fabian;Addison May

  • Effects of maternal smoking during pregnancy and a family history of asthma on respiratory function in newborn infants

    S. M. Stick;P. R. Burton;L. Gurrin;P. D. Sly

  • How vague is vague? A simulation study of the impact of the use of vague prior distributions in MCMC using WinBUGS.

    Paul C. Lambert;Alex J. Sutton;Paul R. Burton;Keith R. Abrams

Frequent Co-Authors

Lyle J. Palmer
Lyle J. Palmer University of Adelaide
Martin D. Tobin
Martin D. Tobin University of Leicester
Nilesh J. Samani
Nilesh J. Samani University of Leicester
Peter S. Braund
Peter S. Braund University of Leicester
Markus Perola
Markus Perola Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
Fiona J. Stanley
Fiona J. Stanley Telethon Kids Institute
Willem H. Ouwehand
Willem H. Ouwehand University of Cambridge
Mark J. Caulfield
Mark J. Caulfield Queen Mary University of London
Paul Elliott
Paul Elliott Imperial College London
Anna F. Dominiczak
Anna F. Dominiczak University of Glasgow

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