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Overview

Simon J. Griffin is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research predominantly focuses on medicine, with a strong emphasis on public health, environmental and occupational health, physiology, clinical psychology, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, and pharmacy.

The scientist's work extensively covers topics related to obesity and health practices, obesity combined with physical activity and diet, eating disorders and behaviors, physical activity and health, diabetes management and education, mobile health and mHealth applications, and colorectal cancer screening and detection.

Frequent collaborators include Amy L. Ahern, Stephen J. Sharp, Juliet A. Usher-Smith, Julia Mueller, and Sören Brage.

Simon J. Griffin has contributed to various publication venues, with multiple articles appearing in BMJ Open, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), International Journal of Obesity, Diabetic Medicine, and PLoS ONE.

Selected recent papers include:

  • Software tools to support title and abstract screening for systematic reviews in healthcare: an evaluation (2020, BMC Medical Research Methodology)
  • Risk of thrombocytopenia and thromboembolism after covid-19 vaccination and SARS-CoV-2 positive testing: self-controlled case series study (2021, BMJ)
  • Diets for weight management in adults with type 2 diabetes: an umbrella review of published meta-analyses and systematic review of trials of diets for diabetes remission (2021, Diabetologia)
  • Life expectancy associated with different ages at diagnosis of type 2 diabetes in high-income countries: 23 million person-years of observation (2023, The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology)
  • The absolute and relative risk of type 2 diabetes after gestational diabetes: A systematic review and meta-analysis of 129 studies (2020, Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice)

Best Publications

  • Twelve type 2 diabetes susceptibility loci identified through large-scale association analysis

    Benjamin F. Voight;Benjamin F. Voight;Laura J. Scott;Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir;Andrew P. Morris

  • Effectiveness of interventions to promote physical activity in children and adolescents: systematic review of controlled trials.

    Esther M F van Sluijs;Alison M McMinn;Simon J Griffin

  • A genome-wide association search for type 2 diabetes genes in African Americans.

    N D Palmer;C W McDonough;P J Hicks;B H Roh

  • Interventions to Improve the Management of Diabetes in Primary Care, Outpatient, and Community Settings: A systematic review

    C M Renders;G D Valk;S J Griffin;E H Wagner

  • Effect on Health-Related Outcomes of Interventions to Alter the Interaction Between Patients and Practitioners: A Systematic Review of Trials

    Simon J. Griffin;Ann-Louise Kinmonth;Marijcke W. M. Veltman;Susan Gillard

  • Interventions to improve the management of diabetes mellitus in primary care, outpatient and community settings.

    Carry Mira Renders;Gerlof D Valk;Simon J Griffin;Edward Wagner

  • Randomised controlled trial of patient centred care of diabetes in general practice: impact on current wellbeing and future disease risk

    Ann Louise Kinmonth;Alison Woodcock;Simon Griffin;Nicki Spiegal

  • Effect of early intensive multifactorial therapy on 5-year cardiovascular outcomes in individuals with type 2 diabetes detected by screening (ADDITION-Europe): a cluster-randomised trial

    Simon J Griffin;Knut Borch-Johnsen;Melanie J Davies;Kamlesh Khunti

  • Determinants of change in physical activity in children and adolescents: a systematic review.

    Christopher Craggs;Kirsten Corder;Esther M.F. van Sluijs;Simon J. Griffin

  • Novel Loci for Adiponectin Levels and Their Influence on Type 2 Diabetes and Metabolic Traits: A Multi-Ethnic Meta-Analysis of 45,891 Individuals

    Z Dastani;Hivert M-F.;Hivert M-F.;N Timpson;Perry Jrb.;Perry Jrb.

  • The impact of communicating genetic risks of disease on risk-reducing health behaviour: systematic review with meta-analysis

    Gareth J Hollands;David P French;Simon J Griffin;A Toby Prevost

  • Family involvement in weight control, weight maintenance and weight-loss interventions: a systematic review of randomised trials.

    N McLean;S Griffin;K Toney;W Hardeman

  • Diabetes risk score: towards earlier detection of type 2 diabetes in general practice

    S. J. Griffin;P. S. Little;C. N. Hales;A. L. Kinmonth

  • The epidemiology of multimorbidity in primary care: a retrospective cohort study

    Anna Cassell;Duncan Edwards;Amelia Harshfield;Kirsty Rhodes

  • Interventions to prevent weight gain: a systematic review of psychological models and behaviour change methods

    W Hardeman;S Griffin;Marie Johnston;A L Kinmonth

  • Impact of metformin on cardiovascular disease: a meta-analysis of randomised trials among people with type 2 diabetes

    Simon James Griffin;James K Leaver;Greg Irving

  • Interventions to promote cycling: systematic review

    Lin Yang;Shannon Sahlqvist;Alison McMinn;Simon J Griffin

  • Impact of growth hormone (GH) treatment on cardiovascular risk factors in GH-deficient adults: a Metaanalysis of Blinded, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Trials.

    Patrick Maison;Simon Griffin;Marc Nicoue-Beglah;Nabila Haddad

  • A causal modelling approach to the development of theory-based behaviour change programmes for trial evaluation

    Wendy Hardeman;Stephen Sutton;Simon Griffin;Marie Johnston

  • The ADDITION study : proposed trial of the cost-effectiveness of an intensive multifactorial intervention on morbidity and mortality among people with Type 2 diabetes detected by screening

    T. Lauritzen;S. Griffin;K. Borch-Johnsen;N.J. Wareham

Frequent Co-Authors

Nicholas J. Wareham
Nicholas J. Wareham University of Cambridge
Esther M. F. van Sluijs
Esther M. F. van Sluijs University of Cambridge
Stephen J. Sharp
Stephen J. Sharp University of Cambridge
Stephen Sutton
Stephen Sutton University of Cambridge
Soren Brage
Soren Brage University of Cambridge
Ulf Ekelund
Ulf Ekelund Norwegian School of Sport Sciences
David Ogilvie
David Ogilvie University of Cambridge
Nita G. Forouhi
Nita G. Forouhi University of Cambridge
Jenna Panter
Jenna Panter University of Cambridge
Wendy Hardeman
Wendy Hardeman University of East Anglia

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