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Bright Nwaru
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Department of Internal Medicine and Clinical Nutrition-
Unsupervised Machine Learning Identifies Asthma Phenotypes in the Population-Based West Sweden Asthma
Study
Muwada Bashir Awad Bashir, Daniil Lisik, Saliha Selin Ozuygur Ermis, Rani Basna, Reshed Abohalaka, Selin Ercan, Helena Backman, Teet Pullerits, Roxana Mincheva, Göran Wennergren, Madeleine Rådinger, Jan Lötvall, Linda Ekerljung, Hannu Kankaanranta, Bright Nwaru
Clinical and experimental allergy : Journal of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology - 2025 -
Asthma Remission in Adults: Role of Age at Asthma Onset, Smoking, Obesity, and Allergic
Rhinitis.
Reshed Abohalaka, Selin Ercan, Lauri Lehtimäki, Daniil Lisik, Saliha Selin Ozuygur Ermis, Linda Ekerljung, Helena Backman, Madeleine Rådinger, Bright Nwaru, Hannu Kankaanranta
Allergy - 2025 -
Obesity and weight change during eight years in relation to asthma
incidence.
Reshed Abohalaka, Selin Ercan, Pinja Ilmarinen, Helena Backman, Linda Ekerljung, Madeleine Rådinger, Bright Nwaru, Hannu Kankaanranta
Scientific reports - 2025 -
Protocol for development of a checklist and guideline for transparent reporting of cluster analyses
(TRoCA)
Daniil Lisik, Syed Ahmar Shah, Rani Basna, Tai Dinh, Ryan P. Browne, Jeffrey L. Andrews, Meredith Wallace, Absalom Ezugwu, Ana Marusic, Dat Tran, Joaquín Torres-Sospedra, Hieu Chi Dam, Philippe Fournier-Viger, Christian Hennig, Marieke Timmerman, Matthijs J. Warrens, Eva Ceulemans, Bright Nwaru, Tina M. Hernandez-Boussard
BMJ Open - 2025 -
Heart failure in long-term survivors of childhood cancer - a systematic review and meta-analysis of population-based
studies.
Tove Berg, Jens Böhmer, Bright I Nwaru, Kristjan Karason, Marianne Jarfelt
Acta Oncologica - 2025 -
Reference Values and Determinants of Fractional Exhaled Nitric Oxide in a Representative Adult Population in Western
Sweden.
Reshed Abohalaka, Selin Ercan, Lauri Lehtimäki, Saliha Selin Ozuygur Ermis, Daniil Lisik, Muwada Bashir Awad Bashir, Radhika Jadhav, Linda Ekerljung, Göran Wennergren, Jan Lötvall, Teet Pullerits, Helena Backman, Madeleine Rådinger, Bright Nwaru, Hannu Kankaanranta
Clinical and translational allergy - 2025 -
Serum and nasal lavage fluid eosinophil-derived neurotoxin levels and their determinants in
adults
Saliha Selin Özuygur Ermis, Carina Malmhäll, Magnus P Borres, Robert Movérare, Daniil Lisik, Reshed Abohalaka, Selin Ercan, Susanne Schmeisser, Rani Basna, Roxana Mincheva, Göran Wennergren, Jan Lötvall, Linda Ekerljung, Madeleine Rådinger, Hannu Kankaanranta, Bright I Nwaru
The journal of allergy and clinical immunology. Global - 2025 -
Computational Phenotyping of Obstructive Airway Diseases: A Systematic
Review
Muwada Bashir Awad Bashir, Gregorio Paolo Milani, Valentina De Cosmi, Alessandra Mazzocchi, Guo-Qiang Zhang, Rani Basna, Linnea Hedman, Anne Lindberg, Linda Ekerljung, Malin Axelsson, Lowie E G W Vanfleteren, Eva Rönmark, Helena Backman, Hannu Kankaanranta, Bright I Nwaru
Journal of Asthma and Allergy - 2025 -
Late-Onset Asthma Phenotypes by Onset Age: A Cluster Analysis in Swedish Population-Based
Cohorts.
Daniil Lisik, Helena Backman, Rani Basna, Linnea Hedman, Muwada Bashir Awad Bashir, Selin Ercan, Reshed Abohalaka, Saliha Selin Özuygur Ermis, Linda Ekerljung, Caroline Stridsman, Sofia Winsa-Lindmark, Roxana Mincheva, Teet Pullerits, Jan Lötvall, Anne Lindberg, Madeleine Rådinger, Eva Rönmark, Hannu Kankaanranta, Bright I Nwaru
Allergy - 2025 -
Characteristics of adult asthma based on Type 2 inflammation markers: a population-based
study
Selin Ercan, Reshed Abohalaka, Pinja Ilmarinen, Lauri Lehtimäki, Saliha Selin Özuygur Ermis, Daniil Lisik, Muwada Bashir Awad Bashir, Radhika Jadhav, Iida Vähätalo, Carina Malmhäll, Helena Backman, Göran Wennergren, Linda Ekerljung, Jan Lötvall, Teet Pullerits, Madeleine Rådinger, Bright I Nwaru, Hannu Kankaanranta
The journal of allergy and clinical immunology. In practice - 2025 -
Machine learning-derived asthma and allergy trajectories in children: a systematic review and
meta-analysis
Daniil Lisik, Saliha Selin Özuygur Ermis, Gregorio Paolo Milani, Giulia Carla Immacolata Spolidoro, Selin Ercan, Michael Salisu, Faozyat Odetola, Daniele Giovanni Ghiglioni, Danylo Pylov, Emma Goksör, Rani Basna, Göran Wennergren, Hannu Kankaanranta, Bright I Nwaru
European Respiratory Review - 2025 -
Exogenous sex steroid hormones and asthma phenotypes: a study protocol for a prospective cohort analysis with UK-wide primary care
data
Fatima Almaghrabi, Bright I Nwaru, Aziz Sheikh, Athanasios Tsanas, Holly Tibble, Hilary Critchley, Tracy Jackson, Azhar Ali, Syed Ahmar Shah
BMJ open - 2025 -
Blood eosinophil reference values and determinants in a representative adult
population.
Reshed Abohalaka, Selin Ercan, Lauri Lehtimäki, Saliha Selin Özuygur Ermis, Daniil Lisik, Muwada Bashir Awad Bashir, Radhika Jadhav, Linda Ekerljung, Göran Wennergren, Jan Lötvall, Teet Pullerits, Helena Backman, Madeleine Rådinger, Bright I Nwaru, Hannu Kankaanranta
The journal of allergy and clinical immunology. Global - 2025 -
All-cause and cause-specific mortality in respiratory symptom clusters: a population-based multicohort
study
Daniil Lisik, Helena Backman, Hannu Kankaanranta, Rani Basna, Linnea Hedman, Linda Ekerljung, Fredrik Nyberg, Anne Lindberg, Göran Wennergren, Eva Rönmark, Bright I Nwaru, Lowie E G W Vanfleteren
Respiratory research - 2025 -
Sex disparity in adult asthma-A potential immunomodulatory role of let-7 family
microRNAs
Carina Malmhäll, Jenny Calvén, Julie Weidner, Kristina Johansson, Patricia Ramos-Ramírez, Emma Boberg, Linda Ekerljung, Roxana Mincheva, Bright I Nwaru, Hannu Kankaanranta, Henric Olsson, Christopher Mccrae, Madeleine Rådinger
CLINICAL AND TRANSLATIONAL ALLERGY - 2025 -
Characterization of substance use pattern among secondary school students in Nasarawa State,
Nigeria
Dennis Kudu Egga, Omobola Oduyoye, Ijanada Aliyu Jacob, John Akinyoye, Alheri Alaku, Bright I Nwaru
DISCOVER PUBLIC HEALTH - 2024 -
Artificial intelligence in pediatric allergy
research
Daniil Lisik, Rani Basna, Tai Dinh, Christian Hennig, Syed Ahmar Shah, Göran Wennergren, Emma Goksör, Bright I Nwaru
European Journal of Pediatrics - 2024 -
Lifetime asthma incidence is related to age at onset and allergies in western
Sweden.
Reshed Abohalaka, Selin Ercan, Lauri Lehtimäki, Linda Ekerljung, Helena Backman, Fatma Zehra Uslu, Saliha Selin Özuygur Ermis, Madeleine Rådinger, Bright I Nwaru, Hannu Kankaanranta
Clinical and Translational Allergy - 2024 -
Ultra-processed foods, allergy outcomes and underlying mechanisms in children: An EAACI task force
report
Roberto Berni Canani, Laura Carucci, Serena Coppola, Enza D'Auria, Liam O'Mahony, Franziska Roth-Walter, Emilia Vassilopolou, Carlo Agostoni, Iaona Agache, Cezmi Akdis, Fiorenza De Giovanni Di Santa Severina, Gaby Faketea, Matt Greenhawt, Karin Hoffman, Karin Hufnagel, Rosan Meyer, Gregorio Paolo Milani, Anna Nowak-Wegrzyn, Bright I Nwaru, Ines Padua, Lorella Paparo, Peroni Diego, Imke Reese, Caroline Roduit, Peter K. Smith, Alexandra Santos, Eva Untersmayr, Berber Vlieg-Boerstra, Carina Venter
PEDIATRIC ALLERGY AND IMMUNOLOGY - 2024 -
Asthma and allergy trajectories in children based on combined parental report and register
data
Daniil Lisik, Göran Wennergren, Hannu Kankaanranta, Rani Basna, Syed Ahmar Shah, Bernt Alm, Frida Strömberg Celind, Emma Goksör, Bright I Nwaru
Pediatric allergy and immunology : official publication of the European Society of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology - 2024 -
Early-pregnancy BMI, maternal gestational weight gain, and asthma and allergic diseases in
children
Vincent Ojwang, Bright I Nwaru, Takkinen Hanna-Mari, Tapanainen Heli, Minna Kaila, Suvi Ahonen, Onni Niemela, Anna-Maija Haapala, Jorma Ilonen, Jorma Toppari, Heikki Hyoty, Riitta Veijola, Mikael Knip, Suvi M. Virtanen
Pediatric Asthma Allergy & Immunology - 2024 -
Body mass index and risk of over 100 cancer forms and subtypes in 4.1 million individuals in Sweden: the Obesity and Disease Development Sweden (ODDS) pooled cohort
study
Ming Sun, Marisa da Silva, Tone Bjorge, Josef Fritz, Innocent B. Mboya, Mats Jerkeman, Par Stattin, Jens Wahlstrom, Karl Michaelsson, Bethany van Guelpen, Patrik K. E. Magnusson, Sven Sandin, Weiyao Yin, Ylva Trolle Lagerros, Weimin Ye, Bright I Nwaru, Hannu Kankaanranta, Lena Lonnberg, Abbas Chabok, Karolin Isaksson, Nancy L. Pedersen, Soelve Elmstahl, Lars Lind, Linnea Hedman, Christel Haggstrom, Tanja Stocksa
LANCET REGIONAL HEALTH-EUROPE - 2024 -
Cohort profile: The Obesity and Disease Development Sweden (ODDS) study, a pooled
cohort
Marisa da Silva, Josef Fritz, Innocent B. Mboya, Ming Sun, Jens Wahlstrom, Bethany van Guelpen, Karl Michalsson, Patrik K. E. Magnusson, Olle Melander, Sven Sandin, Weiyao Yin, Ylva Trolle Lagerros, Bright I Nwaru, Jerzy Leppert, Abbas Chabok, Nancy L. Pedersen, Solve Elmstahl, Karolin Isaksson, Christian Ingvar, Linnea Hedman, Helena Backman, Christel Haggstrom, Tanja Stocks
BMJ OPEN - 2024 -
Level of education, but not occupation, is differentially associated with asthma phenotypes in
adults
Muwada Bashir Awad Bashir, Rani Basna, Göran Wennergren, Madeleine Rådinger, Helena Backman, Emma Goksör, Jan Lötvall, Linda Ekerljung, Hannu Kankaanranta, Bright I Nwaru
Clinical and Translational Allergy - 2024 -
Machine learning-derived phenotypic trajectories of asthma and allergy in children and adolescents: protocol for a systematic
review
Daniil Lisik, Gregorio Paolo Milani, Michael Salisu, Saliha Selin Özuygur Ermis, Emma Goksör, Rani Basna, Göran Wennergren, Hannu Kankaanranta, Bright I Nwaru
BMJ Open - 2024 -
Time trends of the association of body mass index with mortality in 3.5 million young Swedish
adults
Innocent B. Mboya, Josef Fritz, Marisa da Silva, Ming Sun, Jens Wahlstrom, Patrik K. E. Magnusson, Sven Sandin, Weiyao Yin, Stefan Soderberg, Nancy L. Pedersen, Ylva Trolle Lagerros, Bright I Nwaru, Hannu Kankaanranta, Abbas Chabok, Jerzy Leppert, Helena Backman, Linnea Hedman, Karolin Isaksson, Karl Michaelsson, Christel Haggstrom, Tanja Stocks
ANNALS OF EPIDEMIOLOGY - 2024 -
Socioeconomic status and different forms of rhinitis in Swedish
adults
Muwada Bashir Awad Bashir, Teet Pullerits, Linda Ekerljung, Helena Backman, Göran Wennergren, Hannu Kankaanranta, Bright I Nwaru
Clinical and Translational Allergy - 2024 -
Level of Education Modifies Asthma Mortality in Norway and Sweden. The Nordic EpiLung
Study
Helena Backman, Laxmi Bhatta, Linnea Hedman, Ben Brumpton, Iida Vahatalo, Paul G. Lassmann-Klee, Bright I Nwaru, Linda Ekerljung, Steinar Krokstad, Sigrid Anna Aalberg Vikjord, Anne Lindberg, Hannu Kankaanranta, Eva Ronmark, Arnulf Langhammer
JOURNAL OF ASTHMA AND ALLERGY - 2024 -
Agreement between self-reported and registered age at asthma diagnosis in
Finland
Elias Nurmi, Iida Vahatalo, Pinja Ilmarinen, Heidi Andersen, Leena E. Tuomisto, Anssi Sovijarvi, Helena Backman, Lauri Lehtimaki, Linnea Hedman, Arnulf Langhammer, Bright I Nwaru, Paivi Piirila, Hannu Kankaanranta
BMC PULMONARY MEDICINE - 2024 -
All-cause and cause-specific mortality by spirometric pattern and sex - a population-based cohort
study
Helena Backman, Sami Sawalha, Ulf Nilsson, Linnea Hedman, Caroline Stridsman, Lowie E G W Vanfleteren, Bright I Nwaru, Nikolai Stenfors, Eva Ronmark, Anne Lindberg
THERAPEUTIC ADVANCES IN RESPIRATORY DISEASE - 2024 -
Is there still a social gradient in respiratory symptoms? A population-based Nordic
EpiLung-study
Heidi Andersen, Laxmi Bhatta, Muwada Bashir Awad Bashir, Bright I Nwaru, Arnulf Langhammer, Steinar Krokstad, Paivi Piirila, Hanna Hisinger-Molkanen, Helena Backman, Hannu Kankaanranta, Linnea Hedman
RESPIRATORY MEDICINE - 2024 -
Generating the evidence to support the establishment of a Respiratory Syncytial Virus surveillance system in Cameroon: A study
protocol
John Njuma Libwea, Linda Esso, Andreas Ateke Njoh, Che Henry Ngwa, Vivienne Ngomba Armelle, Chanceline Bilounga Ndongo, Georges Alain Etoundi Mballa, Bright I Nwaru, Dan Weinberger, Richard Njouom, Sinata Koulla-Shiro
PLoS ONE - 2024 -
Prevalence of tree nut allergy in Europe: A systematic review and
meta-analysis
G. C. I. Spolidoro, Daniil Lisik, Sungkutu Nyassi, Athina Ioannidou, Mohamed Mustafa Ali, Yohannes Tesfaye Amera, G. Rovner, E. Khaleva, C. Venter, R. van Ree, M. Worm, B. Vlieg-Boerstra, A. Sheikh, A. Muraro, G. Roberts, Bright I Nwaru
Allergy - 2024 -
Mortality in patients with adrenal insufficiency: a protocol for a systematic review and
meta-analysis.
Francesca Allosso, Konstantinos Dalakas, Ragnhildur Bergthorsdottir, Dimitrios Chantzichristos, Eva Hessman, Bright I Nwaru, Emanuele Bobbio, Daniela Pasquali, Gudmundur Johannsson, Daniela Esposito
BMJ open - 2024 -
Food allergy outside the eight big foods in Europe: A systematic review and
meta-analysis
Giulia C. I. Spolidoro, Sungkutu Nyassi, Daniil Lisik, Athina Ioannidou, Mohamed Mustafa Ali, Yohannes Tesfaye Amera, Graciela Rovner, Ekaterina Khaleva, Carina Venter, Ronald van Ree, Margitta Worm, Berber Vlieg-Boerstra, Aziz Sheikh, Antonella Muraro, Graham Roberts, Bright I Nwaru
CLINICAL AND TRANSLATIONAL ALLERGY - 2024 -
Sensitization to molecular dog allergens in an adult population: Results from the West Sweden Asthma
Study
Özuygur Ermis, Magnus P Borres, Rani Basna, Linda Ekerljung, Carina Malmhäll, Emma Goksör, Göran Wennergren, Madeleine Rådinger, Jan Lötvall, Bo Lundbäck, Hannu Kankaanranta, Bright I Nwaru
Clinical and experimental allergy : journal of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology - 2023 -
Prevalence estimates of eight big food allergies in Europe: Updated systematic review and
meta-analysis
G. C. I. Spolidoro, Mohamed Mustafa Ali, Yohannes Tesfaye Amera, Sungkutu Nyassi, Daniil Lisik, Athina Ioannidou, G. Rovner, E. Khaleva, C. Venter, R. van Ree, M. Worm, B. Vlieg-Boerstra, A. Sheikh, A. Muraro, G. Roberts, Bright I Nwaru
Allergy - 2023 -
White meat consumption and risk of cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and
meta-analysis
Alfons Ramel, Bright I Nwaru, Christel Lamberg-Allardt, Birna Thorisdottir, Linnea Bärebring, Fredrik Söderlund, Erik Kristoffer Arnesen, Jutta Dierkes, Agneta Åkesson
Food and Nutrition Research - 2023 -
Is sibship composition a risk factor for childhood asthma? Systematic review and
meta-analysis
Daniil Lisik, Özuygur Ermis, Athina Ioannidou, Gregorio Paolo Milani, Sungkutu Nyassi, Giulia Carla Immacolata Spolidoro, Hannu Kankaanranta, Emma Goksör, Göran Wennergren, Bright I Nwaru
World journal of pediatrics : WJP - 2023 -
Therapeutic outcomes with surgical and medical management for primary aldosteronism: protocol for a systematic review and
meta-analysis.
Aldo Rocca, Eleftheria Gkaniatsa, Maria Chiara Brunese, Eva Hessman, Andreas Muth, Bright I Nwaru, Oskar Ragnarsson, Emanuele Bobbio, Daniela Esposito
BMJ open - 2023 -
Intake of vitamin B12 in relation to vitamin B12 status in groups susceptible to deficiency: a systematic
review
Linnea Bärebring, C. Lamberg-Allardt, B. Thorisdottir, A. Ramel, F. Soderlund, E. K. Arnesen, Bright I Nwaru, J. Dierkes, A. Akesson
Food & Nutrition Research - 2023 -
Socioeconomic inequalities in asthma and respiratory symptoms in a high-income country: changes from 1996 to
2016
C. Schyllert, A. Lindberg, L. Hedman, C. Stridsman, M. Andersson, H. Andersen, P. Piirila, Bright I Nwaru, S. Krokstad, E. Ronmark, H. Backman
Journal of Asthma - 2023 -
Exogenous female sex steroid hormones and new-onset asthma in women: a matched case-control
study
Guo-Qiang Zhang, Rani Basna, Maya B Mathur, Cecilia Lässer, Roxana Mincheva, Linda Ekerljung, Göran Wennergren, Madeleine Rådinger, Bo Lundbäck, Hannu Kankaanranta, Bright I Nwaru
BMC medicine - 2023 -
Sensitization patterns to cat molecular allergens in subjects with allergic sensitization to cat
dander
Özuygur Ermis, Aram Norouzi, Magnus P Borres, Rani Basna, Linda Ekerljung, Carina Malmhäll, Emma Goksör, Göran Wennergren, Madeleine Rådinger, Jan Lötvall, Hannu Kankaanranta, Bright I Nwaru
Clinical and translational allergy - 2023 -
Siblings and risk of allergic rhinitis: A systematic review and
meta-analysis
Daniil Lisik, Özuygur Ermis, Athina Ioannidou, Gregorio Paolo Milani, Sungkutu Nyassi, Giulia Carla Immacolata Spolidoro, Hannu Kankaanranta, Emma Goksör, Göran Wennergren, Bright I Nwaru
Pediatric allergy and immunology : official publication of the European Society of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology - 2023 -
Birth order, sibship size, and risk of atopic dermatitis, food allergy, and atopy: A systematic review and
meta-analysis
Daniil Lisik, Özuygur Ermis, Athina Ioannidou, Gregorio Paolo Milani, Sungkutu Nyassi, Giulia Carla Immacolata Spolidoro, Hannu Kankaanranta, Emma Goksör, Göran Wennergren, Bright I Nwaru
Clinical and translational allergy - 2023 -
Nonrespiratory Diseases in Adults Without and With Asthma by Age at Asthma
Diagnosis.
Jasmin Honkamäki, Pinja Ilmarinen, Hanna Hisinger-Mölkänen, Leena E Tuomisto, Heidi Andersén, Heini Huhtala, Anssi Sovijärvi, Ari Lindqvist, Helena Backman, Bright I Nwaru, Eva Rönmark, Lauri Lehtimäki, Paula Pallasaho, Päivi Piirilä, Hannu Kankaanranta
The journal of allergy and clinical immunology. In practice - 2023 -
Prescribing patterns of budesonide/formoterol maintenance and reliever therapy in patients with asthma in
Sweden.
Christer Janson, Erik Melén, Sofie de Fine Licht, Gunilla Telg, Ekaterina Maslova, Trung N Tran, Filip Surmont, Fredrik Wiklund, Urban Olsson, Bright I Nwaru, Magnus Ekström
Allergy - 2023 -
Interaction of smoking and social status on the risk of respiratory outcomes in a Swedish adult population: A Nordic Epilung
study
Muwada Bashir Awad Bashir, Rani Basna, Linnea Hedman, Helena Backman, Linda Ekerljung, Heidi Andersén, Göran Wennergren, Laxmi Bhatta, Anne Lindberg, Bo Lundbäck, Hannu Kankaanranta, Eva Rönmark, Bright I Nwaru
Respiratory medicine - 2023 -
Animal versus plant-based protein and risk of cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials and prospective cohort
studies.
Christel Lamberg-Allardt, Linnea Bärebring, Erik Kristoffer Arnesen, Bright I Nwaru, Birna Thorisdottir, Alfons Ramel, Fredrik Söderlund, Jutta Dierkes, Agneta Åkesson
Food & nutrition research - 2023
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