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Michael H. Freitag
Researcher at University of Oldenburg
Publications - 47
Citations - 1699
Michael H. Freitag is an academic researcher from University of Oldenburg. The author has contributed to research in topics: Health care & Population. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 47 publications receiving 1339 citations. Previous affiliations of Michael H. Freitag include MetroWest Medical Center & Schiller International University.
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Prevalence, Determinants and Patterns of Multimorbidity in Primary Care: A Systematic Review of Observational Studies
Concepció Violan,Quintí Foguet-Boreu,Gemma Flores-Mateo,Chris Salisbury,Jeanet W. Blom,Michael H. Freitag,Liam G. Glynn,Christiane Muth,Jose M Valderas +8 more
TL;DR: The limitations of the current evidence base means that further and better designed studies are needed to inform policy, research and clinical practice, with the goal of improving health-related quality of life for patients with multimorbidity.
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General and abdominal obesity parameters and their combination in relation to mortality: a systematic review and meta-regression analysis
S Carmienke,Michael H. Freitag,Tobias Pischon,Peter Schlattmann,T. Fankhaenel,H. Goebel,Jochen Gensichen +6 more
TL;DR: Evidence suggests that abdominal obesity measures, such as WC or WHR, show information independent to measures of general obesity and should be used in clinical practice, in addition to BMI, to assess obesity-related mortality in adults.
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Midlife Pulse Pressure and Incidence of Dementia The Honolulu-Asia Aging Study
Michael H. Freitag,Rita Peila,Kamal Masaki,Helen Petrovitch,G. Webster Ross,Lon R. White,Lenore J. Launer +6 more
TL;DR: Midlife SBP is the strongest BP component predicting incident dementia, whereas PP was not significantly associated with the risk for dementia.
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Evaluating Frequency, Diagnostic Quality, and Cost of Lyme Borreliosis Testing in Germany: A Retrospective Model Analysis
Iris Müller,Michael H. Freitag,Gabriele Poggensee,Elke Scharnetzky,Eberhard Straube,Christof Schoerner,Harald Hlobil,Hans-Jochen Hagedorn,Gerold Stanek,Alexandra Schubert-Unkmeir,Douglas E. Norris,Jochen Gensichen,Klaus-Peter Hunfeld +12 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors performed a sentinel analysis of epidemiological and medicoeconomic data for 2007 and 2008 and found that for all insured members in the outpatient sector, a total of 174,820 EIAs and 52,280 immunoblots were ordered annually for these patients.
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Plasma Brain Natriuretic Peptide Levels and Blood Pressure Tracking in the Framingham Heart Study
Michael H. Freitag,Martin G. Larson,Daniel Levy,Emelia J. Benjamin,Thomas J. Wang,Eric P. Leip,Peter W.F. Wilson,Ramachandran S. Vasan,Ramachandran S. Vasan +8 more
TL;DR: In this community-based sample, higher plasma BNP levels were associated with increased risk of BP progression in men but not women and additional investigations are warranted to confirm these findings and elucidate the basis for these gender-related differences.