Karl‐heinz Ladwig

Biographic Data

ID4889992
NAMEKarl‐heinz Ladwig
GIVEN NAMESKarl‐heinz
FAMILY NAMELadwig
SIGNATURELADWIG K H
AFFILIATIONSHelmholtz Zentrum München
ORCID0000-0003-0710-1720
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS30
TOTAL CITATIONS4
WORKS AS AUTHOR30
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1999
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX1

  • Gender-Differential Association Between Loneliness and Alcohol Consumption

    Open AccessHamimatunnisa Johar, Seryan Atasoy et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Mental…2023

    Loneliness is an established risk factor for impaired health. However, the evidence of whether increased alcohol consumption is a coping mechanism to alleviate loneliness for both genders remains sparse. The cross-sectional study included 8898 men and 8910 women (mean age of 56.2 ± 11.5 years) from three population-based cohort studies in Germany (KORA-FF4, GHS, and SHIP. Daily alcohol consumption (g/day) was measured, and risky drinking was iden…

  • Relating the visceral factor of pain to domain‐specific risk attitudes

    Open AccessAdriana König, Adriana N König et al.ARTICLEJournal of Behavioral Decision…2023Cited by: 1References: 3

    Visceral factors are negative emotions and drive and feeling states that grab people's attention and motivate them to engage in certain behaviors. They can contribute to discrepancies between an individual's long‐term self‐interest and their actual behavior. One such discrepancy concerns risk‐taking in health contexts as well as in a variety of other domains such as financial or career‐related decisions. This study examines the relationship betwe…

  • The Association of Social Connectivity and Body Weight With the Onset of Type 2 Diabetes

    Seryan Atasoy, Hamimatunnisa Johar et al.ARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine2022

    OBJECTIVE: Low levels of social connectivity are related to the onset of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D), and this study investigates the role of body weight in this association. METHODS: In a sample of 9448 participants followed for a mean of 15.3 years (186,158.5 person-years) from the Monitoring of Trends and Determinants in Cardiovascular Disease Augsburg/Cooperative Health Research in the Region of Augsburg population-based cohort conducted i…

  • Depression Mediates the Association Between Childhood Emotional Abuse and the Onset of Type 2 Diabetes

    Open AccessSeryan Atasoy, Hamimatunnisa Johar et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2022

    Background The dysregulation of glucose homeostasis via mental health stress is increasingly acknowledged, whereby depression independently increases the risk of the onset of type 2 diabetes by up to 60%. Contributing mental health factors starting in early life have further been considered, indicating that exposure to childhood emotional abuse is associated with both depression and an increased onset of type 2 diabetes in adulthood. However, the…

  • Different information needs in subgroups of people with diabetes mellitus

    Open AccessSandra Olivia Borgmann, Veronika Gontscharuk et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2020

    Knowledge about different patient subgroups can be useful for tailored information campaigns or physician-patient interactions. Further research is needed to analyse health care needs in these groups, changes in information needs over the course of the disease, and prospective health outcomes

  • Malnutrition and related risk factors in older adults from different health-care settings

    Open AccessEva Kiesswetter, Miriam Giovanna Colombo et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2020

    Objective: The origin of malnutrition in older age is multifactorial and risk factors may vary according to health and living situation. The present study aimed to identify setting-specific risk profiles of malnutrition in older adults and to investigate the association of the number of individual risk factors with malnutrition. Design: Data of four cross-sectional studies were harmonized and uniformly analysed. Malnutrition was defined as BMI 2 …

  • Placebo and Nocebo Effects in Patients With Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy and Heart-Healthy Controls

    Open AccessElisabeth Olliges, Simon Schneider et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2019

    The etiology of takotsubo cardiomyopathy (TTC)-a rare, reversible, and acquired form of cardiac diseases-is not yet fully explained. An exaggerated activation of the sympathetic-nervous-system (SNS) following stressful psychosocial life events is discussed to be of key importance. In this experimental study, we tested whether TTC patients, compared to heart-healthy controls, respond more strongly to supporting placebo interventions and stressful …

  • The impact of job insecurity on long-term self-rated health – results from the prospective population-based Monica/Kora study

    Open AccessAmira Barrech, Jens Baumert et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2018

    We found that perceived job insecurity during working life was independently and significantly associated with impaired SRH both cross-sectionally as well as after 14 years, but not after 19 and 24 years

  • Sex differences in the association of social network satisfaction and the risk for type 2 diabetes

    Open AccessKaroline Lukaschek, Jens Baumert et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2017

    Further research is needed to address the complexities of the perception of social relationships and social interactions, or interdependence, especially when another major public health issue such as T2D is concerned

  • A Stepwise Psychotherapy Intervention for Reducing Risk in Coronary Artery Disease (SPIRR-CAD)

    Christoph Herrmann-Lingen, Manfred E Beutel et al.ARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine2016

    BACKGROUND: Depression predicts adverse prognosis in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD), but previous treatment trials yielded mixed results. We tested the hypothesis that stepwise psychotherapy improves depressive symptoms more than simple information. METHODS: In a multicenter trial, we randomized 570 CAD patients scoring higher than 7 on the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale-depression subscale to usual care plus either one inform…

  • The association between resilience and diabetic neuropathy by socioeconomic position

    Open AccessLaura Perna, Andreas Mielck et al.ARTICLEJournal of Health Psychology2015Cited by: 3References: 22

    We investigated whether older adults with diabetes mellitus and lower resilience have an increased risk of diabetic neuropathy as compared to older adults with higher resilience, and whether this association varies by socioeconomic position. In total, 3942 individuals took part in a health survey in Augsburg, Germany, in 2008-2010 (KORA-Age study). We found that among participants with low socioeconomic position, those with higher resilience had …

  • Job Strain as a Risk Factor for the Onset of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

    Cornelia Huth, Barbara Thorand et al.ARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine2014

    OBJECTIVE: To examine whether job strain is associated with an increased risk of subsequent Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) development in a population-based study of men and women. METHODS: Data were derived from the prospective MONICA/KORA Augsburg study. We investigated 5337 working participants aged 29 to 66 years without diabetes at one of the three baseline surveys. Job strain was measured by the Karasek job content questionnaire. High job …

  • Are psychosocial stressors associated with the relationship of alcohol consumption and all-cause mortality

    Open AccessEsther Ruf, Jens Baumert et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2014

    The present study confirmed the impact of sick quitters on mortality risk, but failed to show that the association between alcohol consumption and mortality is confounded by psychosocial stressors

  • Stable time patterns of railway suicides in Germany

    Open AccessKaroline Lukaschek, Jens Baumert et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2014

    Over the course of two observation periods, the weekday and circadian patterns of railway suicides remained stable. Therefore, these patterns should be an integral part of railway suicide preventive measures, e.g. gatekeeper training courses

  • Impact of vertigo and dizziness on self-perceived participation and autonomy in older adults

    Open AccessMartin Mueller, Ralf Strobl et al.ARTICLEQuality of Life Research2014

  • Job Strain–Associated Inflammatory Burden and Long-Term Risk of Coronary Events

    Rebecca T Emeny, Astrid Zierer et al.ARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine2013

    BACKGROUND: We examined the association between job strain and coronary heart disease (CHD) and investigated the role of markers of inflammation and endothelial dysfunction as possible mediators of job strain-associated CHD risk. METHODS: The sample (n = 1027) included employed participants (35-64 years old, 68% male) from the population-based MONICA/KORA (Monitoring of Trends and Determinants in Cardiovascular Disease/Kooperative Gesundheitsfors…

  • Validation and development of a shorter version of the resilience scale RS-11

    Open AccessAlexander Von Eisenhart Rothe, Markus Zenger et al.ARTICLEBMC Psychology2013

    The RS-11 and the RS-5 are reliable, consistent and valid instruments to measure the ability of elderly individuals to successfully cope with change and misfortune

  • Suicide Mortality in Comparison to Traffic Accidents and Homicides as Causes of Unnatural Death. An Analysis of 14,441 Cases in Germany in the Year 2010

    Open AccessKaroline Lukaschek, Natalia Erazo et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2012

    Suicide is the leading cause of unnatural death and YLL. The sex- and age- specific patterns in suicide mortality call for different action plans to target high risk groups

  • Prospective association between self-reported life satisfaction and mortality

    Open AccessMaría Elena Lacruz, Rebecca T Emeny et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2011

    Baseline assessment demonstrated that psychological, social and life-style factors, but not somatic co-morbidities, were relevant determinants of LS. Moreover, the analysis showed that men with higher LS have a substantial long-term survival benefit. The observed association between LS and mortality may be attributed to common underlying causes such as social network integration and/or self-rated health

  • Association of daily tar and nicotine intake with incident myocardial infarction

    Open AccessQiuli Zhang, Qiu-Li Zhang et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2011

    The present study based on a large population-based sample adds important evidence of cumulative effects of tar and nicotine intake on the risk of incident MI. Even low or medium tar and nicotine intake revealed substantial risk increases as compared to never-smokers. Therefore, reduction of tar and nicotine contents in cigarettes cannot be seen as a suitable public health policy in preventing myocardial infarction

  • Behaviour patterns preceding a railway suicide

    Open AccessKaroline Lukaschek, Jens Baumert et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2011

    Our results provide evidence that railway suicides are preceded by identifiable behavioural patterns. This emphasizes the importance of educational efforts, taking into account the knowledge and skills of experienced police officers

  • Increasing railway suicide acts after media coverage of a fatal railway accident? An ecological study of 747 suicidal acts

    Sabine Kunrath, Jens Baumert et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2011References: 23

    BACKGROUND: While coverage of a celebrity suicide in the mass media may trigger copycat suicides, evidence for the effect of media reports of non-prominent suicides is moderate. Diversification of current media may raise further doubts as to whether their influence on suicidal acts is still present. We examined whether widespread media coverage of a railway accident, in which several people were killed while investigating a presumed railway suici…

  • SP3-73 Increase of railway suicides in Germany after the railway suicide death of Robert Enke, a famous German football player

    Jens Baumert, Sabine Kunrath et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2011

    Introduction Robert Enke, an internationally respected German football goal keeper committed railway suicide on the 10 November 2009. Concerns were raised about the potential of this event to spark copycat suicides afterwards. Therefore, we analysed the impact on the frequency of subsequent railway suicides. Methods The daily incidence of railway suicides was derived from the Event Database Safety (EDS), the national database of person accidents …

  • Clustering of Negative Affectivity and Social Inhibition in the Community

    Constanze Hausteiner, Daniela Klupsch et al.ARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine2010

    Objective: To explore the prevalence of Type D personality—the combination of negative affectivity and social inhibition—in the general population and its relationship to other cardiovascular risk factors, including psychopathological symptoms. Type D personality has been identified as a prognostic risk factor for various cardiovascular disease conditions. Methods: In a representative sample of 2698 individuals (aged 35–74 years), psychological, …

  • Socio-economic differences in life expectancy among persons with diabetes mellitus or myocardial infarction

    Open AccessLaura Perna, Uta Thien-Seitz et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2010

    This study shows that in Germany the differences in LE by socio-economic status are comparable to those found in other European countries, and that these differences seem to increase when diabetes mellitus or myocardial infarction is present. The statistical method used allows estimates of LE with relatively small datasets