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The Niels Bohr Professorship aims to kindle innovation in psychiatric
epidemiology.
The research is funded by the Danish National Research Foundation. and is based at the
National Centre for Register-based Research, Aarhus BSS, Aarhus University, Denmark.
The research focusses on psychiatric epidemiology - we want to estimate the frequency of mental disorders
in the community, and learn more about the nature of mental disorders.
For example we wish to examine
comorbidity - how different types of mental disorders combine with other disorders.
We will also explore ways to estimate the burden of mental disorders - including premature mortality, and
the burden of mental disorders across the lifespan.
We will also examine how genetic and
environmental risk factors combine. We have a particular interest in the role of prenatal vitamin D.
Register-based metrics of years lived with disability associated with mental and substance use
disorders: a register-based cohort study in Denmark.
Weye N, Santomauro DF, Agerbo E,
[...], McGrath JJ,
Plana-Ripoll O
Lancet Psychiatry
Nature and prevalence of combinations of mental disorders and their association with excess
mortality in a
population-based cohort study.
Plana-Ripoll O, Musliner KL, Dalsgaard S, [...], John J.
McGrath
World Psychiatry
The cost of mental disorders: a systematic review.
Christensen MK, Lim CCW, [...], McGrath
JJ
Epidemiol Psychiatr Sci
Families, Health Registers, and Biobanks: Making the Unmeasurable Measurable.
Clara Climent
Albiñana, Bjarni J Vilhjálmsson, John J McGrath
Biol Psychiatry
Comorbidity within mental disorders: a comprehensive analysis based on 145 990 survey respondents
from 27 countries.
McGrath JJ, Lim CCW, Plana-Ripoll O, [...], Kessler RC, de Jonge P
Epidemiol
Psychiatr Sci.
Association of Specific Mental Disorders With Premature Mortality in the Danish Population Using
Alternative
Measurement Methods.
Weye N, Momen NC, Christensen MK [...], McGrath JJ, Plana-Ripoll O
JAMA New
Open
Genome-wide association study identifies 143 loci associated with 25 hydroxyvitamin D
concentration.
Revez JA, Lin T, Qiao Z, Xue A
[...], Wray NR, McGrath JJ
Nature
Communications | Data analysis
Changes Over Time in the Differential Mortality Gap in Individuals With Mental
Disorders.
Plana-Ripoll O, Weye N
[...], McGrath JJ
JAMA Psychiatry
lillies: An R package for the estimation of excess Life Years Lost among patients with a given
disease or condition.
Plana-Ripoll O, Canudas-Romo V [...], McGrath JJ, Andersen PK
PLoS One
The Global Burden of Disease Methodology Has Been Good for Mental Disorders: But Not Good
Enough.
Weye N, Christensen MK, Momen NC, Iburg KM, Plana-Ripoll O, McGrath JJ.
Can J Psychiatry
Association between Mental Disorders and Subsequent Medical Conditions.
Natalie C. Momen,
Oleguer Plana-Ripoll, Esben Agerbo, [...], John J. McGrath
The New England journal of medicine
A comprehensive analysis of mortality-related health metrics associated with mental disorders: a
nationwide, register-based cohort study.
Oleguer Plana-Ripoll, Carsten Bøcker Pedersen, [...],
John J. McGrath, Thomas Laursen
The
Lancet
Pragmatic Psychiatric Epidemiology - If You Can't Count It, It Won't Count.
J. McGrath, P.
Mortensen, H. Whiteford.
PubMed
The association between neonatal vitamin D status and risk of schizophrenia.
Darryl W. Eyles,
Maciej Trzaskowski, [...], Preben Bo Mortensen, John J. McGrath
Scientific Reports
Exploring Comorbidity Within Mental Disorders Among a Danish National Population.
Oleguer
Plana-Ripoll, Carsten Bøcker Pedersen, Yan Holtz,
[...], Preben
Bo Mortensen, John J. McGrath
JAMA Psychiatry
A comprehensive overview over the cost of mental disorders worldwide.
A study including 7,505,576 persons living in Denmark to describe the most common combinations of mental disorders over a 22-year period and estimate excess mortality associated with these combinations.
A detailed description of comorbidity within mental disorders based on 29 surveys from 27 countries.
A detailed atlas of the links between mental disorders & later medical conditions.
A comprehensive analysis of mortality associated with different types of mental disorders, presenting both Mortality Rate Ratios (MRRs) and premature mortality estimated using Life-Years-Lost (LYLs)..
This website shows the patterns of comorbidity between pairs of 10 broad types of treated mental
disorders.
The data can be explored by sex, types of disorder, or time since onset. We show relative
risks (Hazard Ratios) and absolute risks.
In addition, you can download the results, and see links to
Github for more details of the statistical methods and data visualization tools.
A detailed atlas of the links between mental disorders & later medical conditions. - Watch | Danish version
A comprehensive analysis of mortality associated with different types of mental disorders. - Watch | Danish version
The association between neonatal vitamin D status and risk of schizophrenia. - Watch
How to calculate: Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs), Years of Life Lost (YLLs) and Years Lived with Disability (YLDs) - Watch
