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Yoav Ben-Shlomo is a researcher affiliated with the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom. Their academic work primarily focuses on medicine, with significant contributions across related subfields including neurology, surgery, genetics, epidemiology, and public health, environmental and occupational health.

Their research topics cover a variety of areas, notably:

  • Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • Chronic Disease Management Strategies
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Neurological disorders and treatments
  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Yoav Ben-Shlomo include:

  • The epidemiology of Parkinson's disease, 2024, The Lancet
  • 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
  • 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 Polygenic and Monogenic Basis of Blood Traits and Diseases, 2020, Cell
  • Trans-ethnic and Ancestry-Specific Blood-Cell Genetics in 746,667 Individuals from 5 Global Populations, 2020, Cell

The researcher frequently collaborates with several co-authors including Michael Lawton, Fergus Caskey, Donald G. Grosset, Emily J. Henderson, and Joshua Shulman.

Yoav Ben-Shlomo's work has been published predominantly in a set of recurring venues, which include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • BMJ Open
  • Age and Ageing
  • Movement Disorders
  • Movement Disorders Clinical Practice

Best Publications

  • A common variant in the FTO gene is associated with body mass index and predisposes to childhood and adult obesity

    Timothy M. Frayling;Nicholas J. Timpson;Michael N. Weedon;Eleftheria Zeggini;Eleftheria Zeggini;Eleftheria Zeggini

  • Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index

    Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Cristen J. Willer;Sonja I. Berndt;Keri L. Monda

  • Consensus statement on the diagnosis of multiple system atrophy

    S Gilman;P.A Low;N Quinn;A Albanese

  • A life course approach to chronic disease epidemiology: conceptual models, empirical challenges and interdisciplinary perspectives

    Yoav Ben-Shlomo;Diana Kuh

  • A life course approach to chronic disease epidemiology

    Diana Kuh;Yoav Ben-Shlomo

  • 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

  • Life course epidemiology

    D Kuh;Y Ben-Shlomo;J Lynch;Johan Hallqvist

  • Newly identified loci that influence lipid concentrations and risk of coronary artery disease

    Cristen J. Willer;Serena Sanna;Anne U. Jackson;Angelo Scuteri

  • Aortic pulse wave velocity improves cardiovascular event prediction: an individual participant meta-analysis of prospective observational data from 17,635 subjects

    Yoav Ben-Shlomo;Melissa Spears;Chris Boustred;Margaret May

  • 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

  • What features improve the accuracy of clinical diagnosis in Parkinson's disease A clinicopathologic study

    Andrew J. Hughes;Yoav Ben-Shlomo;Susan E. Daniel;Andrew J. Lees

  • Plasma fibrinogen level and the risk of major cardiovascular diseases and nonvascular mortality: an individual participant meta-analysis.

    J Danesh;S Lewington;S G Thompson;Lowe Gdo.

  • The accuracy of diagnosis of parkinsonian syndromes in a specialist movement disorder service

    Andrew J. Hughes;Susan E. Daniel;Yoav Ben‐Shlomo;Andrew J. Lees

  • Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index

    E. K. Speliotes;C. J. Willer;S. I. Berndt;K. L. Monda

  • World Health Organization cardiovascular disease risk charts: revised models to estimate risk in 21 global regions

    Stephen Kaptoge;Lisa Pennells;Dirk De Bacquer;Marie Therese Cooney

  • Meta-analysis identifies 13 new loci associated with waist-hip ratio and reveals sexual dimorphism in the genetic basis of fat distribution

    Iris M. Heid;Anne U. Jackson;Joshua C. Randall;Tthomas W. Winkler

  • The interleukin-6 receptor as a target for prevention of coronary heart disease: a mendelian randomisation analysis.

    D I Swerdlow;M V Holmes;K B Kuchenbaecker

  • Interleukin-6 receptor pathways in coronary heart disease: a collaborative meta-analysis of 82 studies

    Nadeem Sarwar;Adam S. Butterworth;Daniel F. Freitag;John Gregson

  • Mendelian randomization of blood lipids for coronary heart disease

    Michael V. Holmes;Folkert W. Asselbergs;Tom M. Palmer;Fotios Drenos

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

George Davey Smith
George Davey Smith University of Bristol
Diana Kuh
Diana Kuh University College London
Shah Ebrahim
Shah Ebrahim London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
John Gallacher
John Gallacher University of Oxford
Debbie A. Lawlor
Debbie A. Lawlor University of Bristol
Meena Kumari
Meena Kumari University of Essex
Michele T.M. Hu
Michele T.M. Hu University of Oxford
Mika Kivimäki
Mika Kivimäki University College London
Rebecca Hardy
Rebecca Hardy University College London
Cyrus Cooper
Cyrus Cooper University of Southampton

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