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Ulrich Keil is affiliated with the University of Münster in Germany. The primary area of their research focuses on medicine, with significant attention to infectious diseases, public health, and respiratory medicine.

The scientist's work includes contributions to several topics related to the current global health context, notably:

  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • Occupational and environmental lung diseases
  • Biosensors and Analytical Detection
  • Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies

Ulrich Keil has published research extensively in fields connected to infectious diseases and public health. Their recent papers include works such as:

  • "The performance of the SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR test as a tool for detecting SARS-CoV-2 infection in the population" (2021, Journal of Infection)
  • "Evaluating covid-19 vaccine efficacy and safety in the post-authorisation phase" (2021, BMJ)
  • "The performance of the SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR test as a tool for detecting SARS-CoV-2 infection in the population: A survey of routine laboratory RT-PCR test results from the region of Münster, Germany" (2021, bioRxiv)
  • "Should we continue covid-19 suppression measures based on a transmission model that ignored pre-existing human immunity?" (2020, BMJ)
  • "Incidence of SARs-CoV-2 in Gütersloh county, Germany, after the outbreak in the slaughterhouse and meat packing plant Tönnies" (2020, Zenodo)

The research output appears frequently in venues such as:

  • Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
  • BMJ
  • UNC Libraries
  • Journal of Infection
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Ulrich Keil collaborates with several coauthors, notably:

  • Angela Spelsberg
  • Andreas Stang
  • Johannes Robers
  • Birte Schonert
  • Paul Cullen

The scientist's expertise spans multiple relevant subfields including infectious diseases, public health, environmental and occupational health, education, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, and biomedical engineering.

Best Publications

  • Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults

    Leandra Abarca-Gómez;Ziad A Abdeen;Zargar Abdul Hamid;Niveen M Abu-Rmeileh

  • Trends in adult body-mass index in 200 countries from 1975 to 2014: A pooled analysis of 1698 population-based measurement studies with 19.2 million participants

    Mariachiara Di Cesare;Mariachiara Di Cesare;James Bentham;Gretchen A Stevens;Bin Zhou

  • International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC): rationale and methods.

    M. I. Asher;U. Keil;H. R. Anderson;R. Beasley

  • 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

  • Worldwide trends in blood pressure from 1975 to 2015: a pooled analysis of 1479 population-based measurement studies with 19·1 million participants

    Bin Zhou;James Bentham;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Honor Bixby

  • Worldwide trends in the prevalence of asthma symptoms: phase III of the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC)

    Neil Pearce;Nadia Aït-Khaled;Richard Beasley;Javier Mallol

  • A century of trends in adult human height

    James Bentham;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Gretchen A. Stevens;Bin Zhou

  • Worldwide variations in the prevalence of symptoms of atopic eczema in the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood.

    Hywel Williams;Colin Robertson;Alistair Stewart;Nadia Aït-Khaled

  • EUROASPIRE III: a survey on the lifestyle, risk factors and use of cardioprotective drug therapies in coronary patients from 22 European countries.

    Kornelia Kotseva;David Wood;Guy De Backer;Dirk De Bacquer

  • Cardiovascular prevention guidelines in daily practice: a comparison of EUROASPIRE I, II, and III surveys in eight European countries

    Kornelia Kotseva;David Wood;Guy De Backer;Dirk De Bacquer

  • Association between a deletion polymorphism of the angiotensin-converting-enzyme gene and left ventricular hypertrophy.

    Heribert Schunkert;Hans-Werner Hense;Stephan R. Holmer;Monica Stender

  • Worldwide variations in prevalence of symptoms of allergic rhinoconjunctivitis in children: the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC)

    David Strachan;Bonnie Sibbald;Stephan Weiland;Nadia Ait-Khaled

  • The International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC) Phase Three: A global synthesis

    J. Mallol;J. Crane;E. von Mutius;J. Odhiambo

  • Increasing prevalence of hay fever and atopy among children in Leipzig, East Germany

    Erika von Mutius;Stephan K Weiland;Christian Fritzsch;Heinrich Duhme

  • Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults

    Honor Bixby;James Bentham;Bin Zhou;Mariachiara Di Cesare

  • Estimation of contribution of changes in coronary care to improving survival, event rates, and coronary heart disease mortality across the WHO MONICA Project populations

    Hugh Tunstall-Pedoe;Diego Vanuzzo;Michael Hobbs;Markku Mähönen

  • Framingham risk function overestimates risk of coronary heart disease in men and women from Germany—results from the MONICA Augsburg and the PROCAM cohorts

    Hans-Werner Hense;Helmut Schulte;Hannelore Löwel;Gerd Assmann

  • Self-reported prevalence of asthma symptoms in children in Australia, England, Germany and New Zealand: an international comparison using the ISAAC protocol

    N Pearce;S Weiland;U Keil;P Langridge

  • Population Versus Clinical View of Case Fatality From Acute Coronary Heart Disease: Results From the WHO MONICA Project 1985–1990

    Lloyd Chambless;Ulrich Keil;Annette Dobson;Markku Mähönen

  • Are asthma and allergies in children and adolescents increasing? Results from ISAAC phase I and phase III surveys in Münster, Germany.

    W. Maziak;T. Behrens;T. M. Brasky;H. Duhme

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephan K. Weiland
Stephan K. Weiland University of Ulm
Angela Döring
Angela Döring Augsburg College
Dirk De Bacquer
Dirk De Bacquer Ghent University
Guy De Backer
Guy De Backer Ghent University
Mark Woodward
Mark Woodward Imperial College London
Kari Kuulasmaa
Kari Kuulasmaa Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
Annette J. Dobson
Annette J. Dobson University of Queensland
Heribert Schunkert
Heribert Schunkert Technical University of Munich
Jean Dallongeville
Jean Dallongeville Institut Pasteur
Annika Rosengren
Annika Rosengren Sahlgrenska University Hospital

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