Multimodal biomedical AI

JN Acosta, GJ Falcone, P Rajpurkar, EJ Topol - Nature Medicine, 2022 - nature.com
The increasing availability of biomedical data from large biobanks, electronic health records,
medical imaging, wearable and ambient biosensors, and the lower cost of genome and …

Timing of lifespan influences on brain and cognition

KB Walhovd, M Lövden, AM Fjell - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2023 - cell.com
Modifiable risk and protective factors for boosting brain and cognitive development and
preventing neurodegeneration and cognitive decline are embraced in neuroimaging …

Association of healthful plant-based diet adherence with risk of mortality and major chronic diseases among adults in the UK

AS Thompson, A Tresserra-Rimbau… - JAMA Network …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Plant-based diets have gained popularity for both environmental and health
reasons, but a comprehensive assessment of their quality in relation to risk of mortality and …

Accelerated biological aging and risk of depression and anxiety: evidence from 424,299 UK Biobank participants

X Gao, T Geng, M Jiang, N Huang, Y Zheng… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Theory predicts that biological processes of aging may contribute to poor mental
health in late life. To test this hypothesis, we evaluated prospective associations between …

Comparison of risk factor associations in UK Biobank against representative, general population based studies with conventional response rates: prospective cohort …

GD Batty, CR Gale, M Kivimäki, IJ Deary, S Bell - bmj, 2020 - bmj.com
Objective To compare established associations between risk factors and mortality in UK
Biobank, a study with an exceptionally low rate of response to its baseline survey, against …

Metabolic biomarker profiling for identification of susceptibility to severe pneumonia and COVID-19 in the general population

H Julkunen, A Cichońska, PE Slagboom, P Würtz… - elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Biomarkers of low-grade inflammation have been associated with susceptibility to a severe
infectious disease course, even when measured prior to disease onset. We investigated …

Genetic analyses identify widespread sex-differential participation bias

N Pirastu, M Cordioli, P Nandakumar, G Mignogna… - Nature Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
Genetic association results are often interpreted with the assumption that study participation
does not affect downstream analyses. Understanding the genetic basis of participation bias …

Modifiable and non-modifiable risk factors for COVID-19, and comparison to risk factors for influenza and pneumonia: results from a UK Biobank prospective cohort …

FK Ho, CA Celis-Morales, SR Gray, SV Katikireddi… - BMJ open, 2020 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives We aimed to investigate demographic, lifestyle, socioeconomic and clinical risk
factors for COVID-19, and compared them to risk factors for pneumonia and influenza in UK …

GWAS of allometric body-shape indices in UK Biobank identifies loci suggesting associations with morphogenesis, organogenesis, adrenal cell renewal and cancer

S Christakoudi, E Evangelou, E Riboli, KK Tsilidis - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Genetic studies have examined body-shape measures adjusted for body mass index (BMI),
while allometric indices are additionally adjusted for height. We performed the first genome …

[HTML][HTML] Is cohort representativeness passé? Poststratified associations of lifestyle risk factors with mortality in the UK Biobank

E Stamatakis, KB Owen, L Shepherd, B Drayton… - …, 2021 - journals.lww.com
Background: The UK Biobank (UKB) has been used widely to examine associations
between lifestyle risk factors and mortality outcomes. It is unknown whether the extremely …