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Wolfgang Koenig
Researcher at Technische Universität München
Publications - 130
Citations - 14704
Wolfgang Koenig is an academic researcher from Technische Universität München. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Coronary artery disease. The author has an hindex of 37, co-authored 130 publications receiving 10052 citations. Previous affiliations of Wolfgang Koenig include University of Ulm & McGill University.
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Antiinflammatory Therapy with Canakinumab for Atherosclerotic Disease
Paul M. Ridker,Brendan M. Everett,Tom Thuren,Jean G. MacFadyen,William Chang,Christie M. Ballantyne,Francisco H. Fonseca,Jose C. Nicolau,Wolfgang Koenig,Stefan D. Anker,John J.P. Kastelein,Jan H. Cornel,Prem Pais,Daniel Pella,Jacques Genest,Renata Cifkova,Alberto J. Lorenzatti,Tamás Forster,Zhanna Kobalava,Luminita Vida-Simiti,Marcus Flather,Hiroaki Shimokawa,Hisao Ogawa,Mikael Dellborg,Paulo Roberto Ferreira Rossi,Roland P.T. Troquay,Peter Libby,Robert J. Glynn +27 more
TL;DR: Antiinflammatory therapy targeting the interleukin‐1β innate immunity pathway with canakinumab at a dose of 150 mg every 3 months led to a significantly lower rate of recurrent cardiovascular events than placebo, independent of lipid‐level lowering.
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Efficacy and Safety of Low-Dose Colchicine after Myocardial Infarction
Jean-Claude Tardif,Simon Kouz,David D. Waters,Olivier F. Bertrand,Rafael Diaz,Aldo P. Maggioni,Fausto J. Pinto,Reda Ibrahim,Habib Gamra,Ghassan S. Kiwan,Colin Berry,José López-Sendón,Petr Ostadal,Wolfgang Koenig,Denis Angoulvant,Jean Grégoire,Marc-André Lavoie,Marie-Pierre Dubé,David Rhainds,Mylène Provencher,Lucie Blondeau,Andreas Orfanos,Philippe L. L’Allier,Marie-Claude Guertin,François Roubille +24 more
TL;DR: Among patients with a recent myocardial infarction, colchicine at a dose of 0.5 mg daily led to a significantly lower risk of ischemic cardiovascular events than placebo.
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The Influence of Age and Sex on Genetic Associations with Adult Body Size and Shape: A Large-Scale Genome-Wide Interaction Study
Thomas W. Winkler,Anne E. Justice,Mariaelisa Graff,Llilda Barata,Mary F. Feitosa,Su H. Chu,Jacek Czajkowski,Tõnu Esko,Tove Fall,Tuomas O. Kilpeläinen,Yingchang Lu,Reedik Mägi,Evelin Mihailov,Tune H. Pers,Sina Rüeger,Alexander Teumer,Georg Ehret,Teresa Ferreira,Nancy L. Heard-Costa,Juha Karjalainen,Vasiliki Lagou,Anubha Mahajan,Michael D. Neinast,Inga Prokopenko,Jeannette Simino,Tanya M. Teslovich,Rick Jansen,Harm-Jan Westra,Charles C. White,Devin Absher,Tarunveer S. Ahluwalia,Shafqat Ahmad,Eva Albrecht,Alexessander Couto Alves,Jennifer L. Bragg-Gresham,Anton J. M. de Craen,Joshua C. Bis,Amélie Bonnefond,Gabrielle Boucher,Gemma Cadby,Yu-Ching Cheng,Charleston W. K. Chiang,Graciela Delgado,Ayse Demirkan,Nicole Dueker,Niina Eklund,Gudny Eiriksdottir,Joel Eriksson,Bjarke Feenstra,Krista Fischer,Francesca Frau,Tessel E. Galesloot,Frank Geller,Anuj Goel,Mathias Gorski,Tanja B. Grammer,Stefan Gustafsson,Saskia Haitjema,Jouke-Jan Hottenga,Jennifer E. Huffman,Anne U. Jackson,Kevin B. Jacobs,Åsa Johansson,Marika Kaakinen,Marcus E. Kleber,Jari Lahti,Irene Mateo Leach,Benjamin Lehne,Youfang Liu,Ken Sin Lo,Mattias Lorentzon,Jian'an Luan,Pamela A. F. Madden,Massimo Mangino,Barbara McKnight,Carolina Medina-Gomez,Keri L. Monda,May E. Montasser,Gabriele Müller,Martina Müller-Nurasyid,Ilja M. Nolte,Kalliope Panoutsopoulou,Laura Pascoe,Lavinia Paternoster,Nigel W. Rayner,Frida Renström,Federica Rizzi,Lynda M. Rose,Kathy Ryan,Perttu Salo,Serena Sanna,Hubert Scharnagl,Jianxin Shi,Albert V. Smith,Lorraine Southam,Alena Stančáková,Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir,Rona J. Strawbridge,Yun Ju Sung,Ioanna Tachmazidou,Toshiko Tanaka,Gudmar Thorleifsson,Stella Trompet,Natalia Pervjakova,Jonathan Tyrer,Liesbeth Vandenput,Sander W. van der Laan,Nathalie van der Velde,Jessica van Setten,Jana V. van Vliet-Ostaptchouk,Niek Verweij,Efthymia Vlachopoulou,Lindsay L. Waite,Sophie R. Wang,Zhaoming Wang,Sarah H. Wild,Christina Willenborg,James F. Wilson,Andrew Wong,Jian Yang,Loic Yengo,Laura M. Yerges-Armstrong,Lei Yu,Weihua Zhang,Jing Hua Zhao,Ehm A. Andersson,Stephan J. L. Bakker,Damiano Baldassarre,Karina Banasik,Matteo Barcella,Cristina Barlassina,Claire Bellis,Paola Benaglio,John Blangero,Matthias Blüher,Fabrice Bonnet,Lori L. Bonnycastle,Heather A. Boyd,Marcel Bruinenberg,Aron S. Buchman,Harry Campbell,Yii-Der Ida Chen,Peter S. Chines,Simone Claudi-Boehm,John B. Cole,Francis S. Collins,Eco J. C. de Geus,Lisette C. P. G. M. de Groot,Maria Dimitriou,Jubao Duan,Stefan Enroth,Elodie Eury,Aliki-Eleni Farmaki,Nita G. Forouhi,Nele Friedrich,Pablo V. Gejman,Bruna Gigante,Nicola Glorioso,Alan S. Go,Omri Gottesman,Jürgen Gräßler,Harald Grallert,Niels Grarup,Yu Mei Gu,Linda Broer,Annelies C. Ham,Torben Hansen,Tamara B. Harris,Catharina A. Hartman,Maija Hassinen,Nicholas D. Hastie,Andrew T. Hattersley,Andrew C. Heath,Anjali K. Henders,Dena G. Hernandez,Hans L. Hillege,Oddgeir L. Holmen,Kees Hovingh,Jennie Hui,Lise Lotte N. Husemoen,Nina Hutri-Kähönen,Pirro G. Hysi,Thomas Illig,Philip L. De Jager,Shapour Jalilzadeh,Torben Jørgensen,J. Wouter Jukema,Markus Juonala,Stavroula Kanoni,Maria Karaleftheri,Kay-Tee Khaw,Leena Kinnunen,Steven J. Kittner,Wolfgang Koenig,Ivana Kolcic,Peter Kovacs,Nikolaj T. Krarup,Wolfgang Kratzer,Janine Krüger,Diana Kuh,Meena Kumari,Theodosios Kyriakou,Claudia Langenberg,Lars Lannfelt,Chiara Lanzani,Vaneet Lotay,Lenore J. Launer,Karin Leander,Jaana Lindström,Allan Linneberg,Yan Ping Liu,Stéphane Lobbens,Robert Luben,Valeriya Lyssenko,Satu Männistö,Patrik K. E. Magnusson,Wendy L. McArdle,Cristina Menni,Sigrun Merger,Lili Milani,Grant W. Montgomery,Andrew P. Morris,Narisu Narisu,Mari Nelis,Ken K. Ong,Aarno Palotie,Louis Pérusse,Irene Pichler,Maria Grazia Pilia,Anneli Pouta,Myriam Rheinberger,Rasmus Ribel-Madsen,Marcus Richards,Kenneth Rice,Treva Rice,Carlo Rivolta,Veikko Salomaa,Alan R. Sanders,Mark A. Sarzynski,Salome Scholtens,Robert A. Scott,William R. Scott,Sylvain Sebert,Sebanti Sengupta,Bengt Sennblad,Thomas Seufferlein,Angela Silveira,P. Eline Slagboom,Jan Smit,Thomas Sparsø,Kathleen Stirrups,Ronald P. Stolk,Heather M. Stringham,Morris A. Swertz,Amy J. Swift,Ann-Christine Syvänen,Sian Tsung Tan,Barbara Thorand,Anke Tönjes,Angelo Tremblay,Emmanouil Tsafantakis,Peter J. van der Most,Uwe Völker,Marie-Claude Vohl,Judith M. Vonk,Melanie Waldenberger,Ryan W. Walker,Roman Wennauer,Elisabeth Widen,Gonneke Willemsen,Tom Wilsgaard,Alan F. Wright,M. Carola Zillikens,Suzanne C. van Dijk,Natasja M. van Schoor,Folkert W. Asselbergs,Paul I.W. de Bakker,Jacques S. Beckmann,John Beilby,David A. Bennett,Richard N. Bergman,Sven Bergmann,Carsten A. Böger,Bernhard O. Boehm,Eric Boerwinkle,Dorret I. Boomsma,Stefan R. Bornstein,Erwin P. Bottinger,Claude Bouchard,John C. Chambers,Stephen J. Chanock,Daniel I. Chasman,Francesco Cucca,Daniele Cusi,George Dedoussis,Jeanette Erdmann,Johan G. Eriksson,Denis A. Evans,Ulf de Faire,Martin Farrall,Luigi Ferrucci,Ian Ford,Lude Franke,Paul W. Franks,Philippe Froguel,Ron T. Gansevoort,Christian Gieger,Henrik Grönberg,Vilmundur Gudnason,Ulf Gyllensten,Per Hall,Anders Hamsten,Pim van der Harst,Caroline Hayward,Markku Heliövaara,Christian Hengstenberg,Andrew A. Hicks,Aroon D. Hingorani,Albert Hofman,Frank B. Hu,Heikki V. Huikuri,Kristian Hveem,Alan L. James,Joanne M. Jordan,Antti Jula,Mika Kähönen,Eero Kajantie,Sekar Kathiresan,Lambertus A. Kiemeney,Mika Kivimäki,Paul Knekt,Heikki A. Koistinen,Jaspal S. Kooner,Seppo Koskinen,Johanna Kuusisto,Winfried Maerz,Nicholas G. Martin,Markku Laakso,Timo A. Lakka,Terho Lehtimäki,Guillaume Lettre,Douglas F. Levinson,Lars Lind,Marja-Liisa Lokki,Pekka Mäntyselkä,Mads Melbye,Andres Metspalu,Braxton D. Mitchell,Frans L. Moll,Jeffrey C. Murray,Arthur W. Musk,Markku S. Nieminen,Inger Njølstad,Claes Ohlsson,Albertine J. Oldehinkel,Ben A. Oostra,Lyle J. Palmer,James S. Pankow,Gerard Pasterkamp,Nancy L. Pedersen,Oluf Pedersen,Brenda W.J.H. Penninx,Markus Perola,Annette Peters,Ozren Polasek,Peter P. Pramstaller,Bruce M. Psaty,Lu Qi,Thomas Quertermous,Olli T. Raitakari,Tuomo Rankinen,Rainer Rauramaa,Paul M. Ridker,John D. Rioux,Fernando Rivadeneira,Jerome I. Rotter,Igor Rudan,Hester M. den Ruijter,Juha Saltevo,Naveed Sattar,Heribert Schunkert,Peter Schwarz,Alan R. Shuldiner,Juha Sinisalo,Harold Snieder,Thorkild I. A. Sørensen,Tim D. Spector,Jan A. Staessen,Bandinelli Stefania,Unnur Thorsteinsdottir,Michael Stumvoll,Jean-Claude Tardif,Elena Tremoli,Jaakko Tuomilehto,André G. Uitterlinden,Matti Uusitupa,André L. M. Verbeek,Sita H. Vermeulen,Jorma Viikari,Veronique Vitart,Henry Völzke,Peter Vollenweider,Gérard Waeber,Mark Walker,Henri Wallaschofski,Nicholas J. Wareham,Hugh Watkins,Eleftheria Zeggini,Aravinda Chakravarti,Deborah J. Clegg,L. Adrienne Cupples,Penny Gordon-Larsen,Cashell E. Jaquish,Dabeeru C. Rao,Gonçalo R. Abecasis,Themistocles L. Assimes,Inês Barroso,Sonja I. Berndt,Michael Boehnke,Panos Deloukas,Caroline S. Fox,Leif Groop,David J. Hunter,Erik Ingelsson,Robert C. Kaplan,Mark I. McCarthy,Karen L. Mohlke,Jeffrey R. O'Connell,David Schlessinger,David P. Strachan,Kari Stefansson,Cornelia M. van Duijn,Joel N. Hirschhorn,Cecilia M. Lindgren,Iris M. Heid,Kari E. North,Ingrid B. Borecki,Zoltán Kutalik,Ruth J. F. Loos +438 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors performed meta-analyses of 114 studies with genome-wide chip and/or Metabochip data by the Genetic Investigation of Anthropometric Traits (GIANT) Consortium.
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Cardiovascular efficacy and safety of bococizumab in high-risk patients
Paul M. Ridker,James H. Revkin,Pierre Amarenco,Robert Brunell,Madelyn Curto,Fernando Civeira,Marcus Flather,Robert J. Glynn,Jean Gregoire,J. Wouter Jukema,Yuri Karpov,John J.P. Kastelein,Wolfgang Koenig,Alberto J. Lorenzatti,Pravin Manga,Urszula Masiukiewicz,Michael Miller,Arend Mosterd,Jan Murin,Jose C. Nicolau,Steven E. Nissen,Piotr Ponikowski,Raul D. Santos,Pamela F. Schwartz,Handrean Soran,Harvey D. White,R. Scott Wright,Michal Vrablík,Carla Yunis,Charles L. Shear,Jean-Claude Tardif +30 more
TL;DR: In two randomized trials comparing the PCSK9 inhibitor bococizumab with placebo, bococzumab had no benefit with respect to major adverse cardiovascular events in the trial involving lower‐risk patients but did have a significant benefit in the Trial involving higher‐risk Patients.
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Effect of High-Dose Omega-3 Fatty Acids vs Corn Oil on Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events in Patients at High Cardiovascular Risk: The STRENGTH Randomized Clinical Trial.
Stephen J. Nicholls,A. Michael Lincoff,Michelle Garcia,Dianna Bash,Christie M. Ballantyne,Philip J. Barter,Michael H. Davidson,John J.P. Kastelein,Wolfgang Koenig,Darren K. McGuire,Dariush Mozaffarian,Paul M. Ridker,Kausik K. Ray,Brian G. Katona,Anders Himmelmann,Larrye E. Loss,Martin Rensfeldt,Torbjörn Lundström,Rahul Agrawal,Venu Menon,Kathy Wolski,Steven E. Nissen +21 more
TL;DR: Among statin-treated patients at high cardiovascular risk, the addition of omega-3 CA, compared with corn oil, to usual background therapies resulted in no significant difference in a composite outcome of major adverse cardiovascular events.