Karlijn Meeks

2.4k total citations
89 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Karlijn Meeks is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Karlijn Meeks has authored 89 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 29 papers in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism and 27 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Karlijn Meeks's work include Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins (22 papers), Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (17 papers) and Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology (16 papers). Karlijn Meeks is often cited by papers focused on Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins (22 papers), Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (17 papers) and Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology (16 papers). Karlijn Meeks collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United States and South Africa. Karlijn Meeks's co-authors include Charles Agyemang, Erik Beune, Karien Stronks, Liam Smeeth, Kerstin Klipstein‐Grobusch, Ina Danquah, Silver Bahendeka, Matthias B. Schulze, Juliet Addo and Frank P. Mockenhaupt and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Scientific Reports and Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Karlijn Meeks

83 papers receiving 1.2k citations

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Karlijn Meeks Netherlands	19	338	287	268	206	193	89	1.2k
Silver Bahendeka Uganda	21	469 1.4×	329 1.1×	287 1.1×	204 1.0×	169 0.9×	89	1.6k
Mehrdad Haghazali Iran	16	276 0.8×	280 1.0×	227 0.8×	118 0.6×	99 0.5×	43	1.2k
Habib Emami Iran	17	435 1.3×	396 1.4×	312 1.2×	123 0.6×	77 0.4×	111	1.6k
Nabil Sulaiman United Arab Emirates	22	287 0.8×	232 0.8×	216 0.8×	285 1.4×	123 0.6×	81	1.3k
Bishwajit Bhowmik Norway	17	438 1.3×	185 0.6×	220 0.8×	90 0.4×	65 0.3×	43	1.2k
Asnawi Abdullah Indonesia	16	346 1.0×	662 2.3×	199 0.7×	249 1.2×	81 0.4×	87	1.7k
J. Sonya Haw United States	19	613 1.8×	132 0.5×	252 0.9×	177 0.9×	107 0.6×	51	1.2k
Luciana Bahia Brazil	16	384 1.1×	288 1.0×	195 0.7×	173 0.8×	93 0.5×	47	1.2k
Alessio Petrelli Italy	18	441 1.3×	90 0.3×	224 0.8×	282 1.4×	104 0.5×	87	1.4k
Ruby Jacobs Canada	11	497 1.5×	579 2.0×	337 1.3×	199 1.0×	61 0.3×	12	1.5k

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Verhaar, Barbara J. H., Ellis Owusu‐Dabo, Peter Henneman, et al.. (2025). Gut microbiota shift in Ghanaian individuals along the migration axis: the RODAM-Pros cohort. Gut Microbes. 17(1). 2471960–2471960.

Bentley, Amy R., Ayo P. Doumatey, Jie Zhou, et al.. (2024). Lipidomics profiling and circulating triglyceride concentrations in sub-Saharan African individuals. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 20834–20834.

Okekunle, Akinkunmi Paul, Mary Nicolaou, Manuela De Allegri, et al.. (2024). A multi-dimensional Sustainable Diet Index (SDI) for Ghanaian adults under transition: the RODAM Study. Nutrition Journal. 23(1). 117–117. 2 indexed citations

Meeks, Karlijn, Felix P. Chilunga, Charles Hayfron‐Benjamin, et al.. (2023). Epigenome-wide association study of plasma lipids in West Africans: the RODAM study. EBioMedicine. 89. 104469–104469. 2 indexed citations

Meeks, Karlijn, Amy R. Bentley, Charles Agyemang, et al.. (2023). Ancestral and environmental patterns in the association between triglycerides and other cardiometabolic risk factors. EBioMedicine. 91. 104548–104548. 8 indexed citations

Chilunga, Felix P., Karlijn Meeks, Erik Beune, et al.. (2022). Associations of psychosocial stress with type 2 diabetes and glycaemic control among Ghanaians: The RODAM study. Diabetic Medicine. 40(1). e15006–e15006. 4 indexed citations

Meeks, Karlijn, Amy R. Bentley, Adebowale Adeyemo, & Charles N. Rotimi. (2021). Evolutionary forces in diabetes and hypertension pathogenesis in Africans. Human Molecular Genetics. 30(R1). R110–R118. 14 indexed citations

Chilunga, Felix P., Peter Henneman, Andrea Venema, et al.. (2021). Genome-wide DNA methylation analysis on C-reactive protein among Ghanaians suggests molecular links to the emerging risk of cardiovascular diseases. npj Genomic Medicine. 6(1). 46–46. 3 indexed citations

Bentley, Amy R., Guanjie Chen, Ayo P. Doumatey, et al.. (2021). GWAS in Africans identifies novel lipids loci and demonstrates heterogenous association within Africa. Human Molecular Genetics. 30(22). 2205–2214. 7 indexed citations

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Beune, Erik, Karlijn Meeks, Ina Danquah, et al.. (2021). Serum potassium concentration and its association with hypertension among Ghanaian migrants and non-migrants: The RODAM study. Atherosclerosis. 342. 36–43. 4 indexed citations

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Chilunga, Felix P., Peter Henneman, Andrea Venema, et al.. (2021). DNA Methylation as the Link between Migration and the Major Noncommunicable Diseases: the RODAM Study. Epigenomics. 13(9). 653–666. 7 indexed citations

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Dijk, Anne‐Marieke van, Felix P. Chilunga, Erik Beune, et al.. (2021). Reduced Rank Regression-Derived Dietary Patterns Related to the Fatty Liver Index and Associations with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus among Ghanaian Populations under Transition: The RODAM Study. Nutrients. 13(11). 3679–3679. 6 indexed citations

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Agyemang, Charles, Daniel Boateng, Ina Danquah, et al.. (2021). Rural and urban migration to Europe in relation to cardiovascular disease risk: does it matter where you migrate from?. Public Health. 196. 172–178. 3 indexed citations

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Awuah, Raphael Baffour, Ama de‐Graft Aikins, F. Nii-Amoo Dodoo, et al.. (2020). Psychosocial stressors among Ghanaians in rural and urban Ghana and Ghanaian migrants in Europe. Journal of Health Psychology. 27(3). 674–685. 6 indexed citations

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Meeks, Karlijn, Felix P. Chilunga, Charles Agyemang, et al.. (2020). Epigenome-wide association study for perceived discrimination among sub-Saharan African migrants in Europe - the RODAM study. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 4919–4919. 10 indexed citations

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Meeks, Karlijn, Ayo P. Doumatey, Amy R. Bentley, et al.. (2020). The Genetics of Circulating Resistin Level, A Biomarker for Cardiovascular Diseases, Is Informed by Mendelian Randomization and the Unique Characteristics of African Genomes. Circulation Genomic and Precision Medicine. 13(5). 488–503. 3 indexed citations

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Boateng, Daniel, Cecilia Galbete, Mary Nicolaou, et al.. (2019). Dietary Patterns Are Associated with Predicted 10-Year Risk of Cardiovascular Disease Among Ghanaian Populations: the Research on Obesity and Diabetes in African Migrants (RODAM) Study. Journal of Nutrition. 149(5). 755–769. 20 indexed citations

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Danquah, Ina, Juliet Addo, Daniel Boateng, et al.. (2019). Early-life factors are associated with waist circumference and type 2 diabetes among Ghanaian adults: The RODAM Study. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 10848–10848. 12 indexed citations

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Chilunga, Felix P., Daniel Boateng, Peter Henneman, et al.. (2018). Perceived discrimination and stressful life events are associated with cardiovascular risk score in migrant and non-migrant populations: The RODAM study. International Journal of Cardiology. 286. 169–174. 21 indexed citations

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Beune, Erik, Pythia T. Nieuwkerk, Karien Stronks, et al.. (2018). Medication non-adherence and blood pressure control among hypertensive migrant and non-migrant populations of sub-Saharan African origin: the RODAM study. Journal of Human Hypertension. 33(2). 131–148. 6 indexed citations

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