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Stephen J. Sharp is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on Medicine, with a significant number of publications contributing to the field.

Their subfields of study include:

  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Physiology
  • Genetics
  • Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism

Sharp's work spans various topics within these fields, notably:

  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Nutritional Studies and Diet
  • Physical Activity and Health
  • Eating Disorders and Behaviors
  • Obesity and Health Practices
  • Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling
  • Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease

Frequent publication venues where Sharp has contributed include:

  • BMJ Open
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • PLoS Medicine
  • Diabetes Care
  • The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology

Common collaborators in Sharp's research are:

  • Nicholas J. Wareham
  • Simon J. Griffin
  • Amy L. Ahern
  • Nita G. Forouhi
  • Sören Brage

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Sharp include:

  • Physical distancing interventions and incidence of coronavirus disease 2019: natural experiment in 149 countries (2020, BMJ)
  • Wearable-device-measured physical activity and future health risk (2020, Nature Medicine)
  • Prescription of glucose-lowering therapies and risk of COVID-19 mortality in people with type 2 diabetes: a nationwide observational study in England (2021, The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology)
  • RETRACTED: Estimating dose-response relationships for vitamin D with coronary heart disease, stroke, and all-cause mortality: observational and Mendelian randomisation analyses (2021, 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

  • New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk

    Josée Dupuis;Josée Dupuis;Claudia Langenberg;Inga Prokopenko;Richa Saxena;Richa Saxena

  • New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk (vol 42, pg 105, 2010)

    J Dupuis;C Langenberg;I Prokopenko;R Saxena

  • Explaining heterogeneity in meta-analysis: a comparison of methods.

    Simon G. Thompson;Stephen J. Sharp

  • 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

  • Efficient neutralization of primary isolates of HIV-1 by a recombinant human monoclonal antibody

    Dennis R. Burton;Jayashree Pyati;Raju Koduri;Stephen J. Sharp

  • Sedentary behaviour and risk of all-cause, cardiovascular and cancer mortality, and incident type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and dose response meta-analysis

    Richard Patterson;Eoin McNamara;Marko Tainio;Thiago Hérick de Sá

  • Variants in MTNR1B influence fasting glucose levels

    Inga Prokopenko;Claudia Langenberg;Jose C. Florez;Jose C. Florez;Richa Saxena;Richa Saxena

  • Association between alcohol and cardiovascular disease:Mendelian randomisation analysis based on individual participant data

    Michael V Holmes;Michael V Holmes;Caroline E Dale;Luisa Zuccolo;Richard J Silverwood

  • HMG-coenzyme A reductase inhibition, type 2 diabetes, and bodyweight: evidence from genetic analysis and randomised trials.

    Daniel I Swerdlow;David Preiss;Karoline B Kuchenbaecker;Michael Holmes

  • Genetic variation in GIPR influences the glucose and insulin responses to an oral glucose challenge

    Richa Saxena;Richa Saxena;Claudia Langenberg;Toshiko Tanaka;Toshiko Tanaka

  • Variability in the Heritability of Body Mass Index: A Systematic Review and Meta-Regression

    Cathy E. Elks;Marcel den Hoed;Jing Hua Zhao;Stephen J. Sharp

  • Physical activity attenuates the influence of FTO variants on obesity risk: A meta-analysis of 218,166 adults and 19,268 children

    Tuomas O. Kilpeläinen;Lu Qi;Soren Brage;Stephen J. Sharp

  • 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

  • Physical distancing interventions and incidence of coronavirus disease 2019: natural experiment in 149 countries.

    Nazrul Islam;Stephen J Sharp;Gerardo Chowell;Sharmin Shabnam

  • Early age at menarche associated with cardiovascular disease and mortality.

    Rajalakshmi Lakshman;Nita G. Forouhi;Stephen J. Sharp;Robert Luben

  • 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.

  • Differences in the prospective association between individual plasma phospholipid saturated fatty acids and incident type 2 diabetes: the EPIC-InterAct case-cohort study.

    Nita G. Forouhi;Albert Koulman;Stephen J. Sharp;Fumiaki Imamura

  • Integrative genomic analysis implicates limited peripheral adipose storage capacity in the pathogenesis of human insulin resistance

    Luca A Lotta;Pawan Gulati;Felix R Day;Felicity Payne

  • Erratum: New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk (Nature Genetics (2010) 42 (105-116))

    Josée Dupuis;Claudia Langenberg;Inga Prokopenko;Richa Saxena

  • HMG-COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITION, TYPE 2 DIABETES, AND BODYWEIGHT: EVIDENCE FROM GENETIC ANALYSIS AND RANDOMISED TRIALS

    D Swerdlow;D Preiss;A D Hingorani;N Sattar

Frequent Co-Authors

Nicholas J. Wareham
Nicholas J. Wareham University of Cambridge
Kay-Tee Khaw
Kay-Tee Khaw University of Cambridge
Claudia Langenberg
Claudia Langenberg Queen Mary University of London
Kim Overvad
Kim Overvad Aarhus University
Nita G. Forouhi
Nita G. Forouhi University of Cambridge
Paul W. Franks
Paul W. Franks Lund University
Simon J. Griffin
Simon J. Griffin University of Cambridge
Elio Riboli
Elio Riboli Imperial College London
Heiner Boeing
Heiner Boeing German Institute of Human Nutrition
Anne Tjønneland
Anne Tjønneland University of Copenhagen

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