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Lazaros Belbasis

Early Career Research Fellow @ Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of …
Verified email at ndph.ox.ac.uk
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Environmental risk factors and multiple sclerosis: an umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses

L Belbasis, V Bellou, E Evangelou… - The Lancet …, 2015 - thelancet.com
Background The cause of multiple sclerosis is believed to involve environmental exposure
and genetic susceptibility. We aimed to summarise the environmental risk factors that have …

[HTML][HTML] Risk factors for type 2 diabetes mellitus: an exposure-wide umbrella review of meta-analyses

V Bellou, L Belbasis, I Tzoulaki, E Evangelou - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Background Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a global epidemic associated with
increased health expenditure, and low quality of life. Many non-genetic risk factors have …

Environmental risk factors and Parkinson's disease: an umbrella review of meta-analyses

V Bellou, L Belbasis, I Tzoulaki, E Evangelou… - Parkinsonism & related …, 2016 - Elsevier
Background Parkinson's disease is a neurological disorder with complex pathogenesis
implicating both environmental and genetic factors. We aimed to summarise the …

Systematic evaluation of the associations between environmental risk factors and dementia: an umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses

V Bellou, L Belbasis, I Tzoulaki, LT Middleton… - Alzheimer's & …, 2017 - Elsevier
Introduction Dementia is a heterogeneous neurodegenerative disease, whose etiology
results from a complex interplay between environmental and genetic factors. Methods We …

Gender-specific estimates of COPD prevalence: a systematic review and meta-analysis

G Ntritsos, J Franek, L Belbasis… - … journal of chronic …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Rationale COPD has been perceived as being a disease of older men. However,> 7 million
women are estimated to live with COPD in the USA alone. Despite a growing body of …

[HTML][HTML] Birth weight in relation to health and disease in later life: an umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses

L Belbasis, MD Savvidou, C Kanu, E Evangelou… - BMC medicine, 2016 - Springer
Background Birth weight, a marker of the intrauterine environment, has been extensively
studied in epidemiological research in relation to subsequent health and disease. Although …

Mapping risk factors for depression across the lifespan: an umbrella review of evidence from meta-analyses and Mendelian randomization studies

CA Köhler, E Evangelou, B Stubbs, M Solmi… - Journal of psychiatric …, 2018 - Elsevier
The development of depression may involve a complex interplay of environmental and
genetic risk factors. PubMed and PsycInfo databases were searched from inception through …

Systematic assessment of environmental risk factors for bipolar disorder: an umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta‐analyses

B Bortolato, CA Köhler, E Evangelou… - Bipolar …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives The pathophysiology of bipolar disorder is likely to involve both genetic and
environmental risk factors. In our study, we aimed to perform a systematic search of …

[HTML][HTML] Conducting umbrella reviews

L Belbasis, V Bellou, JPA Ioannidis - BMJ medicine, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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Prognostic models for outcome prediction in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: systematic review and critical appraisal

V Bellou, L Belbasis, AK Konstantinidis, I Tzoulaki… - Bmj, 2019 - bmj.com
Objective To map and assess prognostic models for outcome prediction in patients with
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Design Systematic review. Data sources …