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Shyamali C. Dharmage

Shyamali C. Dharmage

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Medicine

D-Index
100
Citations
37738
World Ranking
8258
National Ranking
242

Overview

Shyamali C. Dharmage is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Medicine, with significant contributions across several subfields including Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Physiology, Immunology and Allergy, as well as Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

The main topics explored by Dharmage include:

  • Asthma and respiratory diseases
  • Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Research
  • Allergic Rhinitis and Sensitization
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Neonatal Respiratory Health Research

Frequent coauthors who have collaborated extensively with Dharmage are:

  • Caroline Lodge (102 joint publications)
  • Adrian J. Lowe (92 joint publications)
  • Michael J. Abramson (86 joint publications)
  • Dinh Bui (75 joint publications)
  • Jennifer L. Perret (74 joint publications)

Key recent publications from Dharmage and associates include:

  • "Greenspace and human health: An umbrella review," 2021, published in The Innovation
  • "High levels of psychosocial distress among Australian frontline healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional survey," 2021, published in General Psychiatry
  • "Lifetime spirometry patterns of obstruction and restriction, and their risk factors and outcomes: a prospective cohort study," 2022, published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine
  • "Association Between Earlier Introduction of Peanut and Prevalence of Peanut Allergy in Infants in Australia," 2022, published in JAMA
  • "Lung-function trajectories: relevance and implementation in clinical practice," 2024, published in The Lancet

Dharmage's work appears frequently in several prominent publication venues, including:

  • Respirology (17 publications)
  • The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology In Practice (13 publications)
  • Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (12 publications)
  • Pediatric Allergy and Immunology (11 publications)
  • International Journal of Epidemiology (10 publications)

Best Publications

  • Prevalence of obstructive sleep apnea in the general population: A systematic review.

    Chamara V. Senaratna;Chamara V. Senaratna;Jennifer L. Perret;Caroline J. Lodge;Adrian J. Lowe

  • Prevalence of challenge-proven IgE-mediated food allergy using population-based sampling and predetermined challenge criteria in infants.

    Nicholas J. Osborne;Jennifer J. Koplin;Pamela E. Martin;Lyle C. Gurrin

  • HbA1c as a screening tool for detection of Type 2 diabetes : a systematic review

    C. M. Bennett;M. Guo;S. C. Dharmage

  • Breastfeeding and asthma and allergies: a systematic review and meta‐analysis

    Caroline J. Lodge;Caroline J. Lodge;D. J. Tan;D. J. Tan;M. X. Z. Lau;Xiaochen Dai

  • Childhood predictors of lung function trajectories and future COPD risk: a prospective cohort study from the first to the sixth decade of life

    Dinh S Bui;Dinh S Bui;Caroline J Lodge;John A Burgess;Adrian J Lowe

  • Early life origins of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

    Cecilie Svanes;J. Sunyer;E. Plana;S. Dharmage

  • Shared genetic origin of asthma, hay fever and eczema elucidates allergic disease biology

    Manuel A. Ferreira;Judith M. Vonk;Hansjörg Baurecht;Ingo Marenholz;Ingo Marenholz

  • Can early introduction of egg prevent egg allergy in infants? A population-based study.

    Jennifer J. Koplin;Nicholas J. Osborne;Melissa Wake;Melissa Wake;Pamela E. Martin

  • Atopic dermatitis and the atopic march revisited

    Shyamali C Dharmage;Shyamali C Dharmage;A J Lowe;A J Lowe;Melanie C Matheson;John Burgess

  • The influence of childhood traffic‐related air pollution exposure on asthma, allergy and sensitization: a systematic review and a meta‐analysis of birth cohort studies

    G. Bowatte;C. Lodge;A. J. Lowe;B. Erbas

  • Identification of IL6R and chromosome 11q13.5 as risk loci for asthma

    Manuel A Ferreira;Melanie C Matheson;David L Duffy;Guy B Marks

  • Breastfeeding and the risk of dental caries: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    Rachel Tham;G. Bowatte;S. C. Dharmage;S. C. Dharmage;D. J. Tan;D. J. Tan

  • The prevalence of food allergy and other allergic diseases in early childhood in a population-based study: HealthNuts age 4-year follow-up.

    Rachel L. Peters;Jennifer J. Koplin;Lyle C. Gurrin;Shyamali C. Dharmage

  • Vitamin D insufficiency is associated with challenge-proven food allergy in infants

    Katrina J. Allen;Katrina J. Allen;Jennifer J. Koplin;Anne-Louise Ponsonby;Lyle C. Gurrin

  • Which infants with eczema are at risk of food allergy? Results from a population-based cohort.

    P. E. Martin;P. E. Martin;J. K. Eckert;J. J. Koplin;J. J. Koplin;A. J. Lowe

  • Genome-Wide Association Studies of Asthma in Population-Based Cohorts Confirm Known and Suggested Loci and Identify an Additional Association near HLA

    Adaikalavan Ramasamy;Mikko Kuokkanen;Sailaja Vedantam;Sailaja Vedantam;Zofia K Z Gajdos;Zofia K Z Gajdos

  • Childhood allergic rhinitis predicts asthma incidence and persistence to middle age: A longitudinal study

    John A. Burgess;E. Haydn Walters;Graham B. Byrnes;Melanie C. Matheson

  • Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies identifies ten loci influencing allergic sensitization

    Klaus Bønnelykke;Melanie C Matheson;Tune Hannes Pers;Raquel Granell

  • Increasing the accuracy of peanut allergy diagnosis by using Ara h 2

    Thanh D. Dang;Mimi Tang;Mimi Tang;Sharon Choo;Paul V. Licciardi

  • Skin prick test responses and allergen-specific IgE levels as predictors of peanut, egg, and sesame allergy in infants.

    Rachel L. Peters;Katrina J. Allen;Katrina J. Allen;Shyamali C. Dharmage;Mimi L.K. Tang;Mimi L.K. Tang

Frequent Co-Authors

Adrian J. Lowe
Adrian J. Lowe University of Melbourne
Michael J. Abramson
Michael J. Abramson Monash University
Katrina J. Allen
Katrina J. Allen University of Melbourne
Mimi L.K. Tang
Mimi L.K. Tang Royal Children's Hospital
Melanie C. Matheson
Melanie C. Matheson University of Melbourne
Cecilie Svanes
Cecilie Svanes University of Bergen
Jennifer J. Koplin
Jennifer J. Koplin University of Queensland
Deborah Jarvis
Deborah Jarvis Imperial College London
Graham G. Giles
Graham G. Giles University of Melbourne
Joachim Heinrich
Joachim Heinrich Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

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