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Tommy Olsson

Tommy Olsson

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Medicine

D-Index
92
Citations
26125
World Ranking
11443
National Ranking
217

Overview

Tommy Olsson is affiliated with Umeå University in Sweden and specializes in Medicine, with a focus on Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism. Their research spans multiple subfields including Physiology, Epidemiology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's research addresses key topics such as Adrenal Hormones and Disorders, Pituitary Gland Disorders and Treatments, Adipose Tissue and Metabolism, Adipokines, Inflammation and Metabolic Diseases, Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks and Lipoproteins, Hormonal Regulation and Hypertension, as well as Diet and metabolism studies.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Tommy Olsson include Per Dahlqvist, Julia H. Goedecke, Amy E. Mendham, Óskar Ragnarsson, and Charlotte Høybye.

Typical publication venues for this researcher are:

  • The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
  • Endocrine Abstracts
  • European Journal of Endocrinology
  • Journal of Internal Medicine
  • Endocrine Connections

Selected recent publications are:

  • GWAS for autoimmune Addison's disease identifies multiple risk loci and highlights AIRE in disease susceptibility, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Excess Morbidity Persists in Patients With Cushing's Disease During Long-term Remission: A Swedish Nationwide Study, 2020, The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
  • Exercise training improves mitochondrial respiration and is associated with an altered intramuscular phospholipid signature in women with obesity, 2021, Diabetologia
  • Distinctive exercise-induced inflammatory response and exerkine induction in skeletal muscle of people with type 2 diabetes, 2022, Science Advances
  • Pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes risk in black Africans: a South African perspective, 2020, Journal of Internal Medicine

Best Publications

  • Tissue-specific dysregulation of cortisol metabolism in human obesity.

    Eva Rask;Tommy Olsson;Stefan Soderberg;Ruth Andrew

  • Environmental influences on psychological restoration

    Terry Hartig;Anders Böök;Jörgen Garvill;Tommy Olsson

  • Tissue-specific changes in peripheral cortisol metabolism in obese women: increased adipose 11beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 activity.

    Eva Rask;Brian R Walker;Stefan Söderberg;Dawn E W Livingstone

  • Leptin is associated with increased risk of myocardial infarction.

    Stefan Söderberg;B Ahrén;J H Jansson;Owe Johnson

  • Epidemiology and Etiology of Ischemic Stroke in Young Adults Aged 18 to 44 Years in Northern Sweden

    Bo Kristensen;Jan Malm;Bo Carlberg;Birgitta Stegmayr

  • Obesity and colon cancer: Does leptin provide a link?

    Pär Stattin;Annekatrin Lukanova;Carine Biessy;Stefan Söderberg

  • Fractures after stroke.

    Anna Ramnemark;Lars Nyberg;Bengt Borssén;T. Olsson

  • Rapid Emergency Medicine score: a new prognostic tool for in‐hospital mortality in nonsurgical emergency department patients

    Thomas Olsson;Andreas Terént;Lars Lind

  • Improved cortisol exposure-time profile and outcome in patients with adrenal insufficiency: a prospective randomized trial of a novel hydrocortisone dual-release formulation.

    G. Johannsson;A. G. Nilsson;R. Bergthorsdottir;P. Burman

  • A low dose ACTH test to assess the function of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis.

    S Rasmuson;T Olsson;E Hagg

  • Local and systemic impact of transcriptional up-regulation of 11beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 in adipose tissue in human obesity.

    Deborah J Wake;Eva Rask;Dawn E W Livingstone;Stefan Söderberg

  • Impaired Incretin Response After a Mixed Meal Is Associated With Insulin Resistance in Nondiabetic Men

    Eva Rask;Tommy Olsson;Stefan Söderberg;Owe Johnson

  • Impaired cognitive performance in patients with chronic burnout syndrome

    Agneta Sandström;Ingalill Nyström Rhodin;Mattias Lundberg;Tommy Olsson

  • Higher prevalence of type 2 diabetes in men than in women is associated with differences in visceral fat mass

    Anna Nordström;Jenny Hadrévi;Tommy Olsson;Paul W. Franks

  • Leptin is associated with increased prostate cancer risk : a nested case-referent study.

    Pär Stattin;Stefan Söderberg;Göran Hallmans;Annika Bylund

  • Environmental influences on the central nervous system and their implications for the aging rat

    Abdul H. Mohammed;Bengt G. Henriksson;Stine Söderström;Ted Ebendal

  • A unique role of monocyte chemoattractant protein 1 among chemokines in adipose tissue of obese subjects

    Ingrid Dahlman;Maria Kaaman;Tommy Olsson;Garry D Tan

  • Leptin Is a Risk Marker for First-Ever Hemorrhagic Stroke in a Population-Based Cohort

    Stefan Söderberg;Bo Ahrén;Birgitta Stegmayr;Owe Johnson

  • Different linkage of depression to hypercortisolism early versus late after stroke. A 3-year longitudinal study.

    Monica Åström;Tommy Olsson;Kjell Asplund

  • Tissue-specific changes in peripheral cortisol metabolism in obese women

    Eva Rask;Brian Walker;Stefan Söderberg;Dawn Livingstone

Frequent Co-Authors

Stefan Söderberg
Stefan Söderberg Umeå University
Jonathan R. Seckl
Jonathan R. Seckl University of Edinburgh
Hans Link
Hans Link Karolinska Institute
Bo Ahrén
Bo Ahrén Lund University
Brian R. Walker
Brian R. Walker Newcastle University
Mohsen Khademi
Mohsen Khademi Karolinska Institute
Göran Hallmans
Göran Hallmans Umeå University
Fredrik Piehl
Fredrik Piehl Karolinska Institute
Jan Hillert
Jan Hillert Karolinska Institute
Bengt Lindoff
Bengt Lindoff BeammWave AB

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