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Overview

Yoon K. Loke is affiliated with the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom and has a significant body of work in the field of medicine, encompassing 125 publications. Their research spans various subfields including cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, geriatrics and gerontology, endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, economics and econometrics, and epidemiology.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics related to health systems, economic evaluations, and quality of life, as well as pharmaceutical practices and patient outcomes. Other main research areas include blood pressure and hypertension studies, meta-analysis and systematic reviews, dementia and cognitive impairment research, intensive care unit cognitive disorders, and diabetes management and research.

Frequent publication venues for Yoon K. Loke include the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews with 7 publications, the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology with 5, the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology with 5, Age and Ageing with 4, and BMJ with 3.

The scientist often collaborates with several coauthors, including Phyo Kyaw Myint, Nicholas Steel, Chris Fox, Kathryn Richardson, and Katharina Mattishent, each with 13 to 14 joint publications.

Some of the recent papers authored or coauthored by Yoon K. Loke include:

  • CONSORT Harms 2022 statement, explanation, and elaboration: updated guideline for the reporting of harms in randomised trials, 2023, BMJ
  • Anticholinergic drugs and incident dementia, mild cognitive impairment and cognitive decline: a meta-analysis, 2020, Age and Ageing
  • Anticholinergic burden (prognostic factor) for prediction of dementia or cognitive decline in older adults with no known cognitive syndrome, 2021, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
  • Increasing prevalence of anticholinergic medication use in older people in England over 20 years: cognitive function and ageing study I and II, 2020, BMC Geriatrics
  • Time to improve the reporting of harms in randomized controlled trials, 2021, Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Best Publications

  • ROBINS-I: a tool for assessing risk of bias in non-randomised studies of interventions.

    Jonathan A. C. Sterne;Miguel A Hernan;Barnaby C Reeves;Jelena Savovic;Jelena Savovic

  • Long-term risk of cardiovascular events with rosiglitazone: a meta-analysis.

    Sonal Singh;Yoon K. Loke;Curt D. Furberg

  • Dissemination and publication of research findings: an updated review of related biases.

    F Song;S Parekh;L Hooper;Y K Loke

  • Long-term Risk of Cardiovascular Events With Rosiglitazone

    Sonal Singh;Yoon K. Loke;Curt D. Furberg

  • Risk of gastrointestinal haemorrhage with long term use of aspirin: meta-analysis.

    Sheena Derry;Yoon Kong Loke

  • Risk of Clostridium difficile Infection With Acid Suppressing Drugs and Antibiotics: Meta-Analysis

    Chun Shing Kwok;Aaron Kobina Arthur;Chukwudubem Ifeanyichukwu Anibueze;Sonal Singh

  • Long-term use of thiazolidinediones and fractures in type 2 diabetes: a meta-analysis

    Yoon K. Loke;Sonal Singh;Curt D. Furberg

  • Inhaled Anticholinergics and Risk of Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events in Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

    Sonal Singh;Yoon K. Loke;Curt D. Furberg

  • What is the evidence of the impact of microfinance on the well-being of poor people?

    Maren Duvendack;Richard Palmer-Jones;James G. Copestake;Lee Hooper

  • Long-term Glycemic Variability and Risk of Adverse Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

    Catherine Gorst;Chun Shing Kwok;Saadia Aslam;Iain Buchan

  • Does pharmacist-led medication review help to reduce hospital admissions and deaths in older people? A systematic review and meta-analysis

    Richard Holland;James Desborough;Larry Goodyer;Sandra Hall

  • PRISMA harms checklist: improving harms reporting in systematic reviews.

    Liliane Zorzela;Yoon K Loke;John P Ioannidis;Su Golder

  • Methodological problems in the use of indirect comparisons for evaluating healthcare interventions: survey of published systematic reviews

    Fujian Song;Yoon K. Loke;Tanya Walsh;Anne Marie Glenny

  • Long-term use of inhaled corticosteroids and the risk of pneumonia in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a meta-analysis.

    Sonal Singh;Aman V. Amin;Yoon K. Loke

  • Anticholinergic drugs and risk of dementia : case-control study

    Kathryn Richardson;Chris Fox;Ian Maidment;Nicholas Steel

  • Association of Obstructive Sleep Apnea With Risk of Serious Cardiovascular Events A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    Yoon K Loke;J William L Brown;Chun Shing Kwok;Alagaratnam Niruban

  • Risk of serious adverse cardiovascular events associated with varenicline: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    Sonal Singh;Yoon K. Loke;John G. Spangler;Curt D. Furberg

  • Self‐Reported Sleep Duration and Quality and Cardiovascular Disease and Mortality: A Dose‐Response Meta‐Analysis

    Chun Shing Kwok;Evangelos Kontopantelis;George Kuligowski;Matthew Gray

  • Thiazolidinediones and Heart Failure: A Teleo-Analysis

    Sonal Singh;Yoon K. Loke;Curt D. Furberg

  • Risk of fractures with inhaled corticosteroids in COPD: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials and observational studies

    Yoon K Loke;Rodrigo Cavallazzi;Sonal Singh

Frequent Co-Authors

Mamas A. Mamas
Mamas A. Mamas Keele University
Andrew A. Somogyi
Andrew A. Somogyi University of Adelaide
Sheena Derry
Sheena Derry University of Oxford
Carol Brayne
Carol Brayne University of Cambridge
Curt D. Furberg
Curt D. Furberg Wake Forest University
Fiona E. Matthews
Fiona E. Matthews Newcastle University
Lee Hooper
Lee Hooper University of East Anglia
Alex J. MacGregor
Alex J. MacGregor University of East Anglia
Paul L. Enright
Paul L. Enright University of Arizona
Malaz Boustani
Malaz Boustani Indiana University

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