Hellwege JN

ORCID: 0000-0001-7479-0920 · 6 papers in corpus
other 2026
Placenta ·doi:10.1016/j.placenta.2026.03.023

INTRODUCTION: Mother-to-child disease transmission begins in utero, with the placenta playing a critical role in pregnancy and offspring health. Uterine leiomyomata (fibroids, UFs) and endometriosis (ENDO) are common gynecologic diseases th…

observational 2025
Communications medicine ·doi:10.1038/s43856-025-00884-w

BACKGROUND: The burden of comorbidities in those with uterine fibroids compared to those without fibroids is understudied. We performed a phenome-wide association study to systematically assess the association between fibroids and other con…

other 2025
Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing. Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing ·doi:10.1142/9789819807024_0021

Uterine leiomyomata (fibroids, UFs) are common, benign tumors in females, having an estimated prevalence of up to 80%. They are fibrous masses growing within the myometrium leading to chronic symptoms like dysmenorrhea, abnormal uterine ble…

review 2023
Annual review of biomedical data science ·doi:10.1146/annurev-biodatasci-020722-105958

The intersection of women's health and data science is a field of research that has historically trailed other fields, but more recently it has gained momentum. This growth is being driven not only by new investigators who are moving into t…

review 2023
American journal of physiology. Cell physiology ·doi:10.1152/ajpcell.00181.2023

Diseases such as uterine leiomyomata (fibroids and benign tumors of the uterus) and keloids (raised scars) may share common etiology. Fibroids and keloids can co-occur in individuals, and both are highly heritable, suggesting they may share…

observational 2017
BMC obesity ·doi:10.1186/s40608-017-0145-5

BACKGROUND: Resting metabolic rates (RMR) vary across individuals. Understanding the determinants of RMR could provide biological insight into obesity and its metabolic consequences such as type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. METH…