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Ralph Brinks

Chair of Medical Biometry and Epidemiology, Medical Faculty, University Witten/Herdecke …
Verified email at ddz.de
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2019 European League Against Rheumatism/American College of Rheumatology classification criteria for systemic lupus erythematosus

…, K Costenbader, D Daikh, R Brinks… - Arthritis & …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Objective To develop new classification criteria for systemic lupus erythematosus ( SLE )
jointly supported by the European League Against Rheumatism ( EULAR ) and the American …

Prevalence of type 2 diabetes in Germany in 2040: estimates from an epidemiological model

R Brinks, T Tamayo, B Kowall, W Rathmann - European journal of …, 2012 - Springer
To estimate the number of persons in the age-group 55–74 years with type 2 diabetes in
Germany until 2040 and to analyze the impact of an intervention in a high risk group. A Markov …

[HTML][HTML] The prevalence and incidence of diabetes in Germany: an analysis of statutory health insurance data on 65 million individuals from the years 2009 and 2010

T Tamayo, R Brinks, A Hoyer, O Kuß… - Deutsches Ärzteblatt …, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background The database of the German Institute of Medical Documentation and Information
makes it possible for the first time to compute statistics on diabetes for all insurees of the …

A new relation between prevalence and incidence of a chronic disease

R Brinks, S Landwehr - … Medicine and Biology: a Journal of the …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
In 1991 Keiding published a relation between the age-specific prevalence and incidence of
a chronic disease (in Age-specific incidence and prevalence: a statistical perspective. J. Roy…

Projections of type 1 and type 2 diabetes burden in the US population aged< 20 years through 2060: the SEARCH for diabetes in youth study

T Tönnies, R Brinks, S Isom, D Dabelea… - Diabetes …, 2023 - Am Diabetes Assoc
OBJECTIVE To project the prevalence and number of youths with diabetes and trends in
racial and ethnic disparities in the US through 2060. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS …

Performance of antinuclear antibodies for classifying systemic lupus erythematosus: a systematic literature review and meta‐regression of diagnostic data

N Leuchten, A Hoyer, R Brinks, M Schoels… - Arthritis care & …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Objective To review the published literature on the performance of indirect immunofluorescence
( IIF )– HE p‐2 antinuclear antibody ( ANA ) testing for classification of systemic lupus …

Burden of mortality attributable to diagnosed diabetes: a nationwide analysis based on claims data from 65 million people in Germany

E Jacobs, A Hoyer, R Brinks, O Kuss… - Diabetes …, 2017 - Am Diabetes Assoc
OBJECTIVE In Germany, as in many other countries, nationwide data on mortality attributable
to diagnosed diabetes are not available. This study estimated the absolute number of …

Delayed diagnosis adversely affects outcome in systemic lupus erythematosus: cross sectional analysis of the LuLa cohort

…, R Fischer-Betz, B Winkler-Rohlfing, R Brinks… - Lupus, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Objective Despite increased physician’s awareness and improved diagnostic and serological
testing in the recent years, the interval between the initial symptoms and the diagnosis of …

[HTML][HTML] Association between HIV infection and hypertension: a global systematic review and meta-analysis of cross-sectional studies

K Davis, P Perez-Guzman, A Hoyer, R Brinks, E Gregg… - BMC medicine, 2021 - Springer
Background Improved access to effective antiretroviral therapy has meant that people living
with HIV (PLHIV) are surviving to older ages. However, PLHIV may be ageing differently to …

Lifetime risk, life expectancy, and years of life lost to type 2 diabetes in 23 high-income jurisdictions: a multinational, population-based study

…, M Baviera, E Boersma-van Dam, R Brinks… - The Lancet Diabetes & …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Background Diabetes is a major public health issue. Because lifetime risk, life expectancy,
and years of life lost are meaningful metrics for clinical decision making, we aimed to estimate …