Krishnarajah Nirantharakumar

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other 2025
BMC medicine ·doi:10.1186/s12916-025-04229-1

BACKGROUND: Each year, over 700,000 pregnancies occur in the UK, with up to 10% affected by complications such as hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and gestational diabetes mellitus. Pregnancy-related complications and reproductive factor…

2025
BMC pregnancy and childbirth ·doi:10.1186/s12884-025-07771-1

BackgroundMultimorbidity in pregnancy increases health risks to women and babies, and creates challenges for services. The aim of this study was to explore the prevalence and patterns of maternal multimorbidity in a UK population.MethodsThi…

2024
Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy ·doi:10.1111/hex.14104

IntroductionOver a fifth of pregnant women are living with multiple long-term health conditions, which is associated with increased risks of adverse outcomes for mothers and infants. While there are many examples of research exploring indiv…

2024
·doi:10.1101/2024.04.09.24305328

Background Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is a chronic rheumatological condition which causes inflammation of both the joint lining and extra-articular sites. It affects around 1% of the UK population and, if not properly treated, can lead joint…

2024
Wellcome Open Research ·doi:10.12688/wellcomeopenres.20992.2

BackgroundBorn in Bradford (BiB) is a family cohort study with linked routine health records. We calculated the rates of common health conditions and explored differences between White European and South Asian participants.Methods21 health …

2023
BMJ open ·doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2022-068718

IntroductionOne in five pregnant women has multiple pre-existing long-term conditions in the UK. Studies have shown that maternal multiple long-term conditions are associated with adverse outcomes. This observational study aims to compare m…

2022
BMC pregnancy and childbirth ·doi:10.1186/s12884-022-04442-3

BackgroundAlthough maternal death is rare in the United Kingdom, 90% of these women had multiple health/social problems. This study aims to estimate the prevalence of pre-existing multimorbidity (two or more long-term physical or mental hea…

2022
Nature medicine ·doi:10.1038/s41591-022-01909-w

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection is associated with a range of persistent symptoms impacting everyday functioning, known as post-COVID-19 condition or long COVID. We undertook a retrospective matched co…

article 2021
BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology ·doi:10.1111/1471-0528.16692

OBJECTIVE: To describe the prevalence and incidence of endometriosis and to estimate the risk of cardiovascular outcomes in women with endometriosis. DESIGN: Population-based cohort study using The Health Improvement Network database. SETTI…

2020
BMJ (Clinical research ed.) ·doi:10.1136/bmj.m3502

ObjectiveTo consolidate evidence from systematic reviews and meta-analyses investigating the association between reproductive factors in women of reproductive age and their subsequent risk of cardiovascular disease.DesignUmbrella review.Dat…