Helena Bäckman

4.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
143 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Helena Bäckman is a scholar working on Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Physiology and Immunology and Allergy. According to data from OpenAlex, Helena Bäckman has authored 143 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 102 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, 96 papers in Physiology and 14 papers in Immunology and Allergy. Recurrent topics in Helena Bäckman's work include Asthma and respiratory diseases (87 papers), Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research (74 papers) and Respiratory and Cough-Related Research (35 papers). Helena Bäckman is often cited by papers focused on Asthma and respiratory diseases (87 papers), Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research (74 papers) and Respiratory and Cough-Related Research (35 papers). Helena Bäckman collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, Finland and Norway. Helena Bäckman's co-authors include Eva Rönmark, Bo Lundbäck, Anne Lindberg, Linnéa Hedman, Caroline Stridsman, Sven‐Arne Jansson, Linda Ekerljung, Anssi Sovijärvi, Jan Lötvall and Hannu Kankaanranta and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, PLoS ONE and American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Helena Bäckman

122 papers receiving 2.3k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Epidemiology and management of gestational diabetes

2024 124 citations Arianne Sweeting, Wesley Hannah et al. profile →
Pathophysiology from preconception, during pregnancy, and beyond

2024 50 citations Marie‐France Hivert, Helena Bäckman et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Obesity and weight change during eight years in relation to asthma incidence 2025 ·Scientific Reports ·(unknown), (unknown), Pinja Ilmarinen, Helena Bäckman, Linda Ekerljung, Madeleine Rådinger, Bright I. Nwaru, Hannu Kankaanranta	0
2	Incidence of Adult-diagnosed Asthma in Relation to Obesity and Weight Change: An 8-year Longitudinal Study 2025 ·American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine ·(unknown), (unknown), Pinja Ilmarinen, Helena Bäckman, Linda Ekerljung, Madeleine Rådinger, Bright I. Nwaru, Hannu Kankaanranta	1
3	Unsupervised Machine Learning Identifies Asthma Phenotypes in the Population‐Based West Sweden Asthma Study 2025 ·Clinical & Experimental Allergy ·(unknown), Daniil Lisik, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Helena Bäckman, Teet Pullerits, Roxana Mincheva, Göran Wennergren, Madeleine Rådinger, Jan Lötvall, Linda Ekerljung, Hannu Kankaanranta, Bright I. Nwaru	0
4	Reference Values and Determinants of Fractional Exhaled Nitric Oxide in a Representative Adult Population in Western Sweden 2025 ·Clinical and Translational Allergy ·(unknown), (unknown), Lauri Lehtimäki, (unknown), Daniil Lisik, (unknown), R.S. Jadhav, Linda Ekerljung, Göran Wennergren, Jan Lötvall, Teet Pullerits, Helena Bäckman, Madeleine Rådinger, Bright I. Nwaru, Hannu Kankaanranta	1
5	Epidemiology and Management of Gestational Diabetes 2025 ·Obstetrical & Gynecological Survey ·Arianne Sweeting, Wesley Hannah, Helena Bäckman, Patrick M. Catalano, Maisa Feghali, (unknown), Marie‐France Hivert, Jincy Immanuel, Claire L. Meek, Maria Oppermann, Christopher J. Nolan, Uma Ram, María Inês Schmidt, David Simmons, Tawanda Chivese, Katrien Benhalima	1
6	All-cause and cause-specific mortality by spirometric pattern and sex – a population-based cohort study 2024 ·Therapeutic Advances in Respiratory Disease ·Helena Bäckman, (unknown), Ulf Nilsson, Linnéa Hedman, Caroline Stridsman, Lowie E.G.W. Vanfleteren, Bright I. Nwaru, Nikolai Stenfors, Eva Rönmark, Anne Lindberg	0
7	Is asthma in children still increasing? 20‐year prevalence trends in northern Sweden 2024 ·Pediatric Allergy and Immunology ·Linnéa Hedman, Martin Andersson, Anders Bjerg, Helena Bäckman, (unknown), Anna Winberg, Eva Rönmark	1
8	Level of education, but not occupation, is differentially associated with asthma phenotypes in adults 2024 ·Clinical and Translational Allergy ·(unknown), (unknown), Göran Wennergren, Madeleine Rådinger, Helena Bäckman, Emma Goksör, Jan Lötvall, Linda Ekerljung, Hannu Kankaanranta, Bright I. Nwaru	1
9	Inflammatory and cardiovascular markers in placenta following SARS-CoV-2 infection during pregnancy: A Swedish prospective cohort study 2024 ·Placenta ·(unknown), (unknown), Lina Bergman, Mehreen Zaigham, Ola Andersson, Ylva Carlsson, (unknown), Anna-Karin Wikström, Magnus Domellöf, Verena Sengpiel, Helena Bäckman, Robert L. Kruse	0
10	Lifetime asthma incidence is related to age at onset and allergies in western Sweden 2024 ·Clinical and Translational Allergy ·(unknown), (unknown), Lauri Lehtimäki, Linda Ekerljung, Helena Bäckman, (unknown), (unknown), Madeleine Rådinger, Bright I. Nwaru, Hannu Kankaanranta	5
11	Underdiagnosis and misclassification of COPD in Sweden – A Nordic Epilung study 2023 ·Respiratory Medicine ·Malin Axelsson, Helena Bäckman, Bright I. Nwaru, Caroline Stridsman, Lowie E.G.W. Vanfleteren, Linnéa Hedman, Päivi Piirilä, (unknown), Arnulf Langhammer, Hannu Kankaanranta, Madeleine Rådinger, Linda Ekerljung, Eva Rönmark, Anne Lindberg	7
12	Lung Function Trajectories and Associated Mortality among Adults with and without Airway Obstruction 2023 ·American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine ·Helena Bäckman, Anders Blomberg, Anders Lundquist, (unknown), (unknown), Ulf Nilsson, (unknown), Linnéa Hedman, Caroline Stridsman, Eva Rönmark, Anne Lindberg	8
13	Treatment of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Diagnosed Early in Pregnancy 2023 ·Obstetrical & Gynecological Survey ·David Simmons, Jincy Immanuel, William M. Hague, Helena Teede, Christopher J. Nolan, Michael Peek, Jeff R. Flack, Mark McLean, Vincent Wong, Emily Hibbert, Alexandra Kautzky‐Willer, Jürgen Harreiter, Helena Bäckman, Emily Gianatti, Arianne Sweeting, Viswanathan Mohan, Joanne Enticott, N. Wah Cheung	2
14	Self-Reported Physician Diagnosed Asthma with COPD is Associated with Higher Mortality than Self-Reported Asthma or COPD Alone – A Prospective 24-Year Study in the Population of Helsinki, Finland 2022 ·COPD Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease ·(unknown), Paula Kauppi, Ritva Luukkonen, Ari Lindqvist, Arnulf Langhammer, Hannu Kankaanranta, Helena Bäckman, Eva Rönmark, Anssi Sovijärvi, Päivi Piirilä	4
15	Mortality Associated With Occupational Exposure in Helsinki, Finland—A 24-Year Follow-up 2022 ·Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine ·(unknown), Ritva Luukkonen, Ari Lindqvist, Arnulf Langhammer, Hannu Kankaanranta, Helena Bäckman, Eva Rönmark, Anssi Sovijärvi, Paula Kauppi, Päivi Piirilä	0
16	Occupation, socioeconomic status and chronic obstructive respiratory diseases – The EpiLung study in Finland, Estonia and Sweden 2021 ·Respiratory Medicine ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Ritva Luukkonen, (unknown), Matz Larsson, (unknown), Britt‐Marie Sundblad, Ari Lindqvist, Steinar Krokstad, Hannu Kankaanranta, Paula Kauppi, Anssi Sovijärvi, Tari Haahtela, Helena Bäckman, Bo Lundbäck, Päivi Piirilä	9
17	Cardiac biomarkers of prognostic importance in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease 2020 ·Respiratory Research ·Ulf Nilsson, Nicholas L. Mills, David McAllister, Helena Bäckman, Caroline Stridsman, Linnéa Hedman, Eva Rönmark, Takeshi Fujisawa, Anders Blomberg, Anne Lindberg	8
18	Ischemic ECG abnormalities are associated with an increased risk for death among subjects with COPD, also among those without known heart disease 2017 ·International Journal of COPD ·Ulf Nilsson, Anders Blomberg, Bengt Johansson, Helena Bäckman, Berne Eriksson, Anne Lindberg	9
19	From COPD epidemiology to studies of pathophysiological disease mechanisms: challenges with regard to study design and recruitment process 2017 ·European Clinical Respiratory Journal ·Anne Lindberg, (unknown), Helena Bäckman, (unknown), Andreas Frölich, Ulf Nilsson, Eva Rönmark, (unknown), Annelie Behndig, Anders Blomberg	5
20	[Allergies are the largest disease group of Swedish children and young adults]. 2016 ·PubMed ·Eva Rönmark, Helena Bäckman, Linnéa Hedman	1

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