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Peter Schnohr is affiliated with the University of Copenhagen in Denmark and specializes in medicine with a focus on cardiology and cardiovascular medicine. Their research contributions span several subfields including radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, public health, environmental and occupational health, complementary and alternative medicine, and physiology.

Their primary research topics include cardiovascular function and risk factors, cardiac imaging and diagnostics, atrial fibrillation management and outcomes, cardiovascular health and disease prevention, cardiovascular disease and adiposity, heart rate variability and autonomic control, and cardiovascular and exercise physiology.

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated extensively with Peter Schnohr include Gorm Boje Jensen, Kristoffer Grundtvig Skaarup, Tor Biering-Sørensen, Rasmus Møgelvang, and Niklas Dyrby Johansen.

Key recent papers authored or co-authored by Peter Schnohr include:

  • The physical activity paradox in cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality: the contemporary Copenhagen General Population Study with 104,046 adults (2021, European Heart Journal)
  • Left atrial strain predicts incident atrial fibrillation in the general population: the Copenhagen City Heart Study (2021, European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Imaging)
  • Echocardiographic abnormalities and predictors of mortality in hospitalized COVID-19 patients: the ECHOVID-19 study (2020, ESC Heart Failure)
  • Normal values and reference ranges for left atrial strain by speckle-tracking echocardiography: the Copenhagen City Heart Study (2021, European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Imaging)
  • Recovery of cardiac function following COVID-19 - ECHOVID-19: a prospective longitudinal cohort study (2021, European Journal of Heart Failure)

Peter Schnohr has published frequently in several prestigious journals, with the most common venues including European Heart Journal, European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Imaging, Circulation, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, and International Journal of Cardiology.

Best Publications

  • Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: a pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants

    Bin Zhou;Rodrigo M Carrillo-Larco;Goodarz Danaei;Leanne M Riley

  • Nonfasting triglycerides and risk of myocardial infarction, ischemic heart disease, and death in men and women

    Børge G. Nordestgaard;Marianne Benn;Peter Schnohr;Anne Tybjærg-Hansen

  • A 15-year follow-up study of ventilatory function in adults with asthma.

    Peter Lange;Jan Parner;Jørgen Vestbo;Peter Schnohr

  • All-cause mortality associated with physical activity during leisure time, work, sports, and cycling to work

    Lars Bo Andersen;Peter Schnohr;Marianne Schroll;Hans Ole Hein

  • Lung-Function Trajectories Leading to Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

    Peter Lange;Bartolome Celli;Alvar Agustí;Gorm Boje Jensen

  • Regular physical activity reduces hospital admission and mortality in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a population based cohort study

    Judith Garcia-Aymerich;Peter Lange;Marta Benet;Peter Schnohr

  • Prediction of risk of liver disease by alcohol intake, sex, and age: A prospective population study

    Ulrik Becker;Allan Deis;Thorkild I.A. Sørensen;Morten Grønbæk

  • Smoking and risk of myocardial infarction in women and men: longitudinal population study

    Eva Prescott;Merete Hippe;Peter Schnohr;Hans Ole Hein

  • Mortality associated with moderate intakes of wine, beer, or spirits.

    Morten Gronbaek;Allan Deis;Thorkild I A Sorensen;Ulrik Becker

  • Function, morphology and protein expression of ageing skeletal muscle: a cross-sectional study of elderly men with different training backgrounds.

    H Klitgaard;M Mantoni;S Schiaffino;S Ausoni

  • Type of Alcohol Consumed and Mortality from All Causes, Coronary Heart Disease, and Cancer

    Morten Grønbæk;Ulrik Becker;Ditte Johansen;Adam Gottschau

  • Association of Loss-of-Function Mutations in the ABCA1 Gene With High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Levels and Risk of Ischemic Heart Disease

    Ruth Frikke-Schmidt;Børge G. Nordestgaard;Maria C. A. Stene;Amar A. Sethi

  • Regular physical activity modifies smoking-related lung function decline and reduces risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a population-based cohort study.

    Judith Garcia-Aymerich;Peter Lange;Marta Benet;Peter Schnohr

  • Dose of Jogging and Long-Term Mortality: The Copenhagen City Heart Study

    Peter Schnohr;James H. O’Keefe;Jacob L. Marott;Peter Lange

  • Association of LPA Variants With Risk of Coronary Disease and the Implications for Lipoprotein(a)-Lowering Therapies A Mendelian Randomization Analysis

    Stephen Burgess;Brian A Ference;Brian A Ference;Brian A Ference;James R Staley;James R Staley;Daniel F Freitag

  • The Determination of Thyroid Volume by Ultrasound and Its Relationship to Body Weight, Age, and Sex in Normal Subjects

    Laszlo Hegedüs;Hans Perrild;Lars R. Poulsen;Jesper R. Andersen

  • Stroke incidence and risk factors for stroke in Copenhagen, Denmark.

    G Boysen;J Nyboe;M Appleyard;P S Sørensen

  • Height and body-mass index trajectories of school-aged children and adolescents from 1985 to 2019 in 200 countries and territories: a pooled analysis of 2181 population-based studies with 65 million participants

    Andrea Rodriguez-Martinez;Bin Zhou;Marisa K. Sophiea;James Bentham

  • PCSK9 R46L, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels, and risk of ischemic heart disease: 3 independent studies and meta-analyses.

    Marianne Benn;Børge G. Nordestgaard;Peer Grande;Peter Schnohr

  • Longitudinal study of the long-term relation between physical activity and obesity in adults.

    L Petersen;P Schnohr;T I A Sørensen

Frequent Co-Authors

Gorm B. Jensen
Gorm B. Jensen Copenhagen University Hospital
Børge G. Nordestgaard
Børge G. Nordestgaard University of Copenhagen
Peter Lange
Peter Lange University of Copenhagen
Eva Prescott
Eva Prescott University of Copenhagen
Anne Tybjærg-Hansen
Anne Tybjærg-Hansen University of Copenhagen
Morten Grønbæk
Morten Grønbæk University of Southern Denmark
Thorkild I. A. Sørensen
Thorkild I. A. Sørensen University of Copenhagen
Jørgen Vestbo
Jørgen Vestbo University of Manchester
Stig E. Bojesen
Stig E. Bojesen University of Copenhagen
Merete Osler
Merete Osler University of Copenhagen

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