Lars Alfredsson - Researcher Profile

Publications

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Body mass index and risk of dementia: Analysis of individual‐level data from 1.3 million individuals

Mika Kivimäki , Ritva Luukkonen , G. David Batty +22 more

Abstract Introduction Higher midlife body mass index (BMI) is suggested to increase the risk of dementia, but weight loss during the preclinical dementia phase may mask such eff...

2017 Alzheimer s & Dementia 418 citations

Genetic risk and a primary role for cell-mediated immune mechanisms in multiple sclerosis

Stephen Sawcer , Garrett Hellenthal , Matti Pirinen +97 more

Multiple sclerosis is a common disease of the central nervous system in which the interplay between inflammatory and neurodegenerative processes typically results in intermitten...

2011 Nature 2666 citations

Class II HLA interactions modulate genetic risk for multiple sclerosis

Loukas Moutsianas , Luke Jostins-Dean , Ashley Beecham +52 more

2015 Nature Genetics 381 citations

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Researcher Info

h-index: 3
Publications: 3
Citations: 3,465
Institution: Karolinska Institutet

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ORCID: 0000-0003-1688-6697

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h-index 3

h-index: Number of publications with at least h citations each.