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2026

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Medicine

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Citations
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World Ranking
647
National Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Medicine in Germany Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Raimund Erbel is affiliated with the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany, with a primary research focus in the field of Medicine. Their work prominently centers on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, supported by contributions to related subfields such as Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Epidemiology, Genetics, and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine.

The scientist's research topics cover multiple critical areas including:

  • Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies
  • Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins
  • Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Cardiovascular Health and Disease Prevention
  • Cardiovascular Health and Risk Factors

Recent key publications span from 2020 to 2023, featuring studies on cardiovascular health and environmental impacts on disease incidence. Notable papers include:

  • "Associations Between Systolic Interarm Differences in Blood Pressure and Cardiovascular Disease Outcomes and Mortality," 2020, Hypertension
  • "Long-term exposure to ambient source-specific particulate matter and its components and incidence of cardiovascular events - The Heinz Nixdorf Recall study," 2020, Environment International
  • "Association between lipoprotein(a) (Lp(a)) levels and Lp(a) genetic variants with coronary artery calcification," 2020, BMC Medical Genetics
  • "Improving 10-year cardiovascular risk prediction in apparently healthy people: flexible addition of risk modifiers on top of SCORE2," 2023, European Journal of Preventive Cardiology
  • "Air Pollution and Progression of Atherosclerosis in Different Vessel Beds-Results from a Prospective Cohort Study in the Ruhr Area, Germany," 2020, Environmental Health Perspectives

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers, with several recurring co-authors in their publications including:

  • Karl-Heinz Jöckel
  • Börge Schmidt
  • Andreas Stang
  • Sara Schramm
  • Susanne Moebus

Raimund Erbel's research has been published in a variety of scientific journals. The most common venues are:

  • Scientific Reports (9 publications)
  • PLoS ONE (4 publications)
  • Hypertension (2 publications)
  • European Journal of Preventive Cardiology (2 publications)
  • Der Kardiologe (2 publications)

The body of work reflects a sustained engagement with cardiovascular medicine, integrating epidemiological studies, genetic factors, and environmental influences in relation to cardiovascular disease and associated metabolic conditions.

Best Publications

  • 2014 ESC Guidelines on the diagnosis and treatment of aortic diseases: Document covering acute and chronic aortic diseases of the thoracic and abdominal aorta of the adult. The Task Force for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Aortic Diseases of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC).

    Erbel R;Aboyans;Boileau C;Bossone E

  • 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

  • American College of Cardiology Clinical Expert Consensus Document on Standards for Acquisition, Measurement and Reporting of Intravascular Ultrasound Studies (IVUS). A report of the American College of Cardiology Task Force on Clinical Expert Consensus Documents.

    Gary S Mintz;Steven E Nissen;William D Anderson;Steven R Bailey

  • Effect of very high-intensity statin therapy on regression of coronary atherosclerosis: the ASTEROID trial.

    Steven E. Nissen;Stephen J. Nicholls;Ilke Sipahi;Peter Libby

  • Clinical Features and Outcomes of Takotsubo (Stress) Cardiomyopathy

    Christian Templin;Jelena R. Ghadri;Johanna Diekmann;L. Christian Napp

  • Defining the role of common variation in the genomic and biological architecture of adult human height

    Andrew R. Wood;Tonu Esko;Jian Yang;Sailaja Vedantam

  • Large-scale association analysis provides insights into the genetic architecture and pathophysiology of type 2 diabetes

    Andrew P Morris;Benjamin F Voight;Benjamin F Voight;Tanya M Teslovich;Teresa Ferreira

  • Diagnosis and management of aortic dissection

    R. Erbel;F. Alfonso;C. Boileau;O. Dirsch

  • Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology

    Adam E. Locke;Bratati Kahali;Sonja I. Berndt;Anne E. Justice

  • Use of transesophageal echocardiography to guide cardioversion in patients with atrial fibrillation.

    Allan L. Klein;Richard A. Grimm;R. Daniel Murray;Carolyn Apperson-Hansen

  • Association of a human G-protein β3 subunit variant with hypertension

    W Siffert;D Rosskopf;G Siffert;S Busch

  • Safety of transesophageal echocardiography. A multicenter survey of 10,419 examinations.

    W G Daniel;R Erbel;W Kasper;C A Visser

  • Temporary scaffolding of coronary arteries with bioabsorbable magnesium stents: a prospective, non-randomised multicentre trial

    Raimund Erbel;Carlo Di Mario;Jozef Bartunek;Johann Bonnier

  • RANDOMISED TRIAL OF INTRAVENOUS RECOMBINANT TISSUE-TYPE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR VERSUS INTRAVENOUS STREPTOKINASE IN ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION: Report from the European Cooperative Study Group for Recombinant Tissue-type Plasminogen Activator

    M. Verstraete;M. Bory;D. Collen;R. Erbel

  • Genetic associations with valvular calcification and aortic stenosis.

    George Thanassoulis;George Thanassoulis;Catherine Y. Campbell;David S. Owens;J. Gustav Smith;J. Gustav Smith

  • Expert consensus document on the treatment of descending thoracic aortic disease using endovascular stent-grafts.

    Lars G. Svensson;Nicholas T. Kouchoukos;D. Craig Miller;Joseph E. Bavaria

  • Genome-wide trans-ancestry meta-analysis provides insight into the genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes susceptibility.

    Anubha Mahajan;Min Jin Go;Weihua Zhang;Jennifer E. Below

  • Effect of Very High-Intensity Statin Therapy on Regression of Coronary Atherosclerosis

    Steven E. Nissen;Stephen J. Nicholls;Ilke Sipahi;Peter Libby

  • ESC Guidelines on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Peripheral Artery Diseases

    Michel Tendera;Victor Aboyans;Marie-Louise Bartelink;Iris Baumgartner

  • Genome-wide trans-ancestry meta-analysis provides insight into the genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes susceptibility

    Anubha Mahajan;Min Jin Go;Weihua Zhang;Jennifer E. Below

Frequent Co-Authors

Susanne Moebus
Susanne Moebus University of Duisburg-Essen
Karl-Heinz Jöckel
Karl-Heinz Jöckel University of Duisburg-Essen
Michael Haude
Michael Haude Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Gerd Heusch
Gerd Heusch University of Duisburg-Essen
Johannes Siegrist
Johannes Siegrist Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Barbara Hoffmann
Barbara Hoffmann Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Junbo Ge
Junbo Ge Fudan University
Mika Kivimäki
Mika Kivimäki University College London
Thomas Budde
Thomas Budde University of Münster
Annette Peters
Annette Peters Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

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