Area of research
Geriatrics and Gerontology · Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
Research interest
Research interests include Frailty in Older Adults, Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies, Chronic Disease Management Strategies, and Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet.
Investigation of a possible association of potentially inappropriate medication for older adults and frailty in a prospective cohort study from Germany
Polygenic hazard score to guide screening for aggressive prostate cancer: development and validation in large scale cohorts
Amyloid blood biomarker detects Alzheimer's disease
Relationship of Estimated GFR and Albuminuria to Concurrent Laboratory Abnormalities: An Individual Participant Data Meta-analysis in a Global Consortium
E-cadherin breast tumor expression, risk factors and survival: Pooled analysis of 5,933 cases from 12 studies in the Breast Cancer Association Consortium
Genetic determinants of telomere length and risk of pancreatic cancer: A PANDoRA study
Methylomic survival predictors, frailty, and mortality
Alcohol consumption and lung cancer risk: A pooled analysis from the International Lung Cancer Consortium and the SYNERGY study
Association of serum markers of oxidative stress with myocardial infarction and stroke: pooled results from four large European cohort studies
A short intervention targeting psychosomatic care in older adults with complex health care needs–results of a randomized controlled trial
The Combined Effect of Cancer and Cardiometabolic Conditions on the Mortality Burden in Older Adults
DNA methylation signatures in peripheral blood strongly predict all-cause mortality
Burden of hip fracture using disability-adjusted life-years: a pooled analysis of prospective cohorts in the CHANCES consortium
Frailty and healthcare costs—longitudinal results of a prospective cohort study
Measures of chronic kidney disease and risk of incident peripheral artery disease: a collaborative meta-analysis of individual participant data
Polypharmacy and mortality: new insights from a large cohort of older adults by detection of effect modification by multi-morbidity and comprehensive correction of confounding by indication
Vitamin D and cognitive function: A Mendelian randomisation study
Comparison of Nine Instruments to Calculate Anticholinergic Load in a Large Cohort of Older Outpatients: Association with Cognitive and Functional Decline, Falls, and Use of Laxatives
Vitamin D Supplementation Trials Aimed at Reducing Mortality Have Much Higher Power When Focusing on People with Low Serum 25-Hydroxyvitamin D Concentrations
Alcohol and lung cancer risk among never smokers: A pooled analysis from the international lung cancer consortium and the SYNERGY study
Menstrual and reproductive factors and lung cancer risk: A pooled analysis from the international lung cancer consortium
Epigenetic age acceleration predicts cancer, cardiovascular, and all-cause mortality in a German case cohort
Frailty is associated with the epigenetic clock but not with telomere length in a German cohort
Associations of frailty with health care costs – results of the ESTHER cohort study
Is Polypharmacy Associated with Frailty in Older People? Results From the <scp>ESTHER</scp> Cohort Study
Association of hypertension with depression and generalized anxiety symptoms in a large population-based sample of older adults
Self-reported smoking, serum cotinine, and blood DNA methylation
Tobacco smoking and smoking-related DNA methylation are associated with the development of frailty among older adults
Genetic Risk Can Be Decreased: Quitting Smoking Decreases and Delays Lung Cancer for Smokers With High and Low CHRNA5 Risk Genotypes — A Meta-Analysis
Control preferences in treatment decisions among older adults — Results of a large population-based study