Günther Silbernagel
University of Bern
60 Papers
260 Citations
Günther Silbernagel is an academic researcher from University of Bern. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Internal medicine. The author has an hindex of 27, co-authored 51 publications. Previous affiliations of Günther Silbernagel include Heidelberg University & University of Tübingen.
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Physical activity attenuates the influence of FTO variants on obesity risk: A meta-analysis of 218,166 adults and 19,268 children
Tuomas O. Kilpeläinen,Lu Qi,Soren Brage,Stephen J. Sharp,Emily Sonestedt,Ellen W. Demerath,Tariq Ahmad,Samia Mora,Marika Kaakinen,Camilla H. Sandholt,Christina Holzapfel,Christine S. Autenrieth,Elina Hyppönen,Stéphane Cauchi,Meian He,Zoltán Kutalik,Meena Kumari,Alena Stančáková,Karina Meidtner,Beverley Balkau,Jonathan T. Tan,Massimo Mangino,Nicholas J. Timpson,Yiqing Song,M. Carola Zillikens,Kathleen A. Jablonski,Melissa E. Garcia,Stefan Johansson,Jennifer L. Bragg-Gresham,Ying Wu,Jana V. van Vliet-Ostaptchouk,N. Charlotte Onland-Moret,Esther Zimmermann,Natalia V. Rivera,Toshiko Tanaka,Heather M. Stringham,Günther Silbernagel,Stavroula Kanoni,Mary F. Feitosa,Soren Snitker,Jonatan R. Ruiz,Jeffery Metter,María Teresa Martínez Larrad,Mustafa Atalay,Maarit Hakanen,Najaf Amin,Christine Cavalcanti-Proença,Anders Grøntved,Göran Hallmans,John-Olov Jansson,Johanna Kuusisto,Mika Kähönen,Pamela L. Lutsey,John J. Nolan,Luigi Palla,Oluf Pedersen,Louis Pérusse,Frida Renström,Robert A. Scott,Dmitry Shungin,Ulla Sovio,Tuija Tammelin,Tapani Rönnemaa,Timo A. Lakka,Matti Uusitupa,Manuel Serrano Ríos,Luigi Ferrucci,Claude Bouchard,Aline Meirhaeghe,Mao Fu,Mark Walker,Ingrid B. Borecki,George Dedoussis,Andreas Fritsche,Claes Ohlsson,Michael Boehnke,Stefania Bandinelli,Cornelia M. van Duijn,Shah Ebrahim,Debbie A Lawlor,Vilmundur Gudnason,Tamara B. Harris,Thorkild I. A. Sørensen,Karen L. Mohlke,Albert Hofman,André G. Uitterlinden,Jaakko Tuomilehto,Terho Lehtimäki,Olli T. Raitakari,Bo Isomaa,Pål R. Njølstad,Jose C. Florez,Simin Liu,Andy R Ness,Tim D. Spector,E. Shyong Tai,Philippe Froguel,Heiner Boeing,Markku Laakso,Michael Marmot,Sven Bergmann,Chris Power,Kay-Tee Khaw,Daniel I. Chasman,Paul M. Ridker,Torben Hansen,Keri L. Monda,Thomas Illig,Marjo-Riitta Järvelin,Nicholas J. Wareham,Frank B. Hu,Leif Groop,Marju Orho-Melander,Ulf Ekelund,Paul W. Franks,Ruth J. F. Loos +115 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a meta-analysis of data from 45 studies of adults and nine studies of children and adolescents was conducted to confirm or refute unambiguously whether physical activity attenuates the association of FTO with obesity risk.
Plant sterols and plant stanols in the management of dyslipidaemia and prevention of cardiovascular disease
Helena Gylling,Jogchum Plat,Stephen D. Turley,Henry N. Ginsberg,Lars Ellegård,Wendy Jessup,Peter B. Jones,Dieter Lütjohann,Winfried Maerz,Winfried Maerz,Luis Masana,Günther Silbernagel,Bart Staels,Jan Borén,Alberico L. Catapano,Guy De Backer,John E. Deanfield,Olivier S. Descamps,Petri T. Kovanen,Gabriele Riccardi,Lale Tokgozoglu,M. John Chapman +21 more
TL;DR: Functional foods with plant sterols/stanols may be considered in individuals with high cholesterol levels at intermediate or low global cardiovascular risk who do not qualify for pharmacotherapy and as an adjunct to pharmacologic therapy in high and very high risk patients who fail to achieve LDL-C targets on statins or are statin- intolerant.
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Large-Scale Gene-Centric Meta-Analysis across 39 Studies Identifies Type 2 Diabetes Loci
Richa Saxena,Richa Saxena,Clara C. Elbers,Clara C. Elbers,Yiran Guo,Inga Peter,Tom R. Gaunt,Jessica L. Mega,Matthew B. Lanktree,Archana Tare,Archana Tare,Berta Almoguera Castillo,Berta Almoguera Castillo,Yun Li,Toby Johnson,Marcel Bruinenberg,Diane Gilbert-Diamond,Ramakrishnan Rajagopalan,Benjamin F. Voight,Benjamin F. Voight,Ashok Balasubramanyam,John Barnard,Florianne Bauer,Jens Baumert,Tushar Bhangale,Bernhard O. Böhm,Peter S. Braund,Paul Burton,Hareesh R. Chandrupatla,Robert Clarke,Rhonda M. Cooper-DeHoff,Errol D. Crook,George Davey-Smith,Ian N. M. Day,Anthonius de Boer,Mark C.H. De Groot,Fotios Drenos,Jane F. Ferguson,Caroline S. Fox,Clement E. Furlong,Quince Gibson,Christian Gieger,Lisa A. Gilhuijs-Pederson,Joseph T. Glessner,Anuj Goel,Yan Gong,Struan F.A. Grant,Diederick E. Grobbee,Claire E. Hastie,Steve E. Humphries,Cecilia E. Kim,Mika Kivimäki,Marcus E. Kleber,Christa Meisinger,Meena Kumari,Taimour Y. Langaee,Debbie A Lawlor,Mingyao Li,Maximilian T. Lobmeyer,Anke-Hilse Maitland-van der Zee,Matthijs F.L. Meijs,Cliona Molony,David A. Morrow,Gurunathan Murugesan,Solomon K. Musani,Christopher P. Nelson,Stephen Newhouse,Jeffery R. O'Connell,Sandosh Padmanabhan,Jutta Palmen,Sanjey R. Patel,Carl J. Pepine,Mary Pettinger,Thomas S. Price,Suzanne Rafelt,Jane E. Ranchalis,Asif Rasheed,Elisabeth A. Rosenthal,Ingo Ruczinski,Sonia Shah,Haiqing Shen,Günther Silbernagel,Erin N. Smith,Annemieke W M Spijkerman,Alice Stanton,Michael W. Steffes,Barbara Thorand,Mieke D. Trip,Pim van der Harst,Daphne L. van der A,Erik P A Van Iperen,Jessica van Setten,Jana V. van Vliet-Ostaptchouk,Niek Verweij,Bruce H. R. Wolffenbuttel,Taylor Young,M. Hadi Zafarmand,Joseph M. Zmuda,Michael Boehnke,David Altshuler,David Altshuler,Mark I. McCarthy,W. H. Linda Kao,James S. Pankow,Thomas P. Cappola,Peter S. Sever,Neil R Poulter,Mark J. Caulfield,Anna F. Dominiczak,Denis C. Shields,Deepak L. Bhatt,Li Zhang,Sean P. Curtis,John Danesh,Juan P. Casas,Juan P. Casas,Yvonne T. van der Schouw,N. Charlotte Onland-Moret,Pieter A. Doevendans,Gerald W. Dorn,Martin Farrall,Garret A. FitzGerald,Anders Hamsten,Robert A. Hegele,Aroon D. Hingorani,Marten H. Hofker,Gordon S. Huggins,Thomas Illig,Gail P. Jarvik,Julie A. Johnson,Olaf H. Klungel,William C. Knowler,Wolfgang Koenig,Winfried März,James B. Meigs,Olle Melander,Patricia B. Munroe,Braxton D. Mitchell,S. J. Bielinski,Daniel J. Rader,Muredach P. Reilly,Stephen S. Rich,Jerome I. Rotter,Danish Saleheen,Nilesh J. Samani,Eric E. Schadt,Alan R. Shuldiner,Roy L. Silverstein,Kandice Kottke-Marchant,Philippa J. Talmud,Hugh Watkins,Folkert W. Asselbergs,Paul I.W. de Bakker,Paul I.W. de Bakker,Paul I.W. de Bakker,Jeanne M. McCaffery,Cisca Wijmenga,Marc S. Sabatine,James G. Wilson,Alexander P. Reiner,Donald W. Bowden,Hakon Hakonarson,David S. Siscovick,Brendan J. Keating +163 more
- 09 Mar 2012
TL;DR: Large-scale meta-analysis involving a dense gene-centric approach has uncovered additional loci and variants that contribute to type 2 diabetes risk and suggests substantial overlap of T2D association signals across multiple ethnic groups.
Uric Acid and Cardiovascular Events: A Mendelian Randomization Study
Marcus E. Kleber,Graciela E. Delgado,Tanja B. Grammer,Günther Silbernagel,Jie Huang,Bernhard K. Krämer,Eberhard Ritz,Winfried März +7 more
TL;DR: Uric acid and the GRS were both associated with cardiovascular death and sudden cardiac death, suggesting that high uric acid is causally related to adverse cardiovascular outcomes, especially sudden cardiacdeath.
Plant sterols and cardiovascular disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Bernd Genser,Bernd Genser,Günther Silbernagel,Guy De Backer,Eric Bruckert,Rafael Carmena,M. John Chapman,John E. Deanfield,Olivier S. Descamps,Ernst Rietzschel,Karen C. Dias,Winfried März,Winfried März,Winfried März +13 more
TL;DR: A systematic review and meta-analysis of studies published between January 1950 and April 2010 did not reveal any evidence of an association between serum concentrations of plant sterols and risk of CVD.