Medea Imboden
Biographic Data
| ID | 7748780 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Medea Imboden |
| GIVEN NAMES | Medea |
| FAMILY NAME | Imboden |
| SIGNATURE | IMBODEN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9414-5862 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A call for research and policy into building multi-layered social resilience toward a sustainable agricultural workforce in Switzerland
The agricultural workforce is exposed to rapidly changing working conditions due to societal, economic, political, and ecological challenges. In the Swiss farming community, poor mental wellbeing is a growing concern and research focuses on the distribution and hazards of psychological distress in farmers and their social network. This perspective benefits from insights of the first agricultural cohort in Switzerland, illustrating the complex fie…
Depression and anxiety symptoms in male and female farmers
Empirical research on farmers’ mental health in Switzerland is limited. This study uses cross-sectional data from the first follow-up of the FarmCoSwiss cohort to descriptively compare depression and anxiety symptom prevalence between Swiss farmers and the Swiss general population. Furthermore, the association of these mental health outcomes with farm-related characteristics and individual-based mental health protection strategies was explored. O…
Changes in socioeconomic resources and mental health after the second Covid-19 wave (2020–2021)
This study confirms the association of economic stressors and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic and highlights the exacerbating role of subjective risk perception on this association
Causal Effects of Body Mass Index on Airflow Obstruction and Forced Mid-Expiratory Flow
Obesity has complex links to respiratory health. Mendelian randomization (MR) enables assessment of causality of body mass index (BMI) effects on airflow obstruction and mid-expiratory flow. In the adult SAPALDIA cohort, recruiting 9,651 population-representative samples aged 18–60 years at baseline (female 51%), BMI and the ratio of forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV 1 ) to forced vital capacity (FVC) as well as forced mid-expiratory flow…
DNA Methylation in Inflammatory Pathways Modifies the Association between BMI and Adult-Onset Non-Atopic Asthma
A high body mass (BMI) index has repeatedly been associated with non-atopic asthma, but the biological mechanism linking obesity to asthma is still poorly understood. We aimed to test the hypothesis that inflammation and/or innate immunity plays a role in the obesity-asthma link. DNA methylome was measured in blood samples of 61 non-atopic participants with asthma and 146 non-atopic participants without asthma (non-smokers for at least 10 years) …
Exposure to Night-Time Traffic Noise, Melatonin-Regulating Gene Variants and Change in Glycemia in Adults
Traffic noise has been linked to diabetes, with limited understanding of its mechanisms. We hypothesize that night-time road traffic noise (RTN) may impair glucose homeostasis through circadian rhythm disturbances. We prospectively investigated the relationship between residential night-time RTN and subsequent eight-year change in glycosylated hemoglobin (ΔHbA1c) in 3350 participants of the Swiss Cohort Study on Air Pollution and Lung and Heart D…
Biobanking across the phenome - at the center of chronic disease research
Recognized public health relevant risk factors such as obesity, physical inactivity, smoking or air pollution are common to many non-communicable diseases (NCDs). NCDs cluster and co-morbidities increase in parallel to age. Pleiotropic genes and genetic variants have been identified by genome-wide association studies (GWAS) linking NCD entities hitherto thought to be distant in etiology. These different lines of evidence suggest that NCD disease …
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Biobanking across the phenome - at the center of chronic disease research
Recognized public health relevant risk factors such as obesity, physical inactivity, smoking or air pollution are common to many non-communicable diseases (NCDs). NCDs cluster and co-morbidities increase in parallel to age. Pleiotropic genes and genetic variants have been identified by genome-wide association studies (GWAS) linking NCD entities hitherto thought to be distant in etiology. These different lines of evidence suggest that NCD disease …
Exposure to Night-Time Traffic Noise, Melatonin-Regulating Gene Variants and Change in Glycemia in Adults
Traffic noise has been linked to diabetes, with limited understanding of its mechanisms. We hypothesize that night-time road traffic noise (RTN) may impair glucose homeostasis through circadian rhythm disturbances. We prospectively investigated the relationship between residential night-time RTN and subsequent eight-year change in glycosylated hemoglobin (ΔHbA1c) in 3350 participants of the Swiss Cohort Study on Air Pollution and Lung and Heart D…
DNA Methylation in Inflammatory Pathways Modifies the Association between BMI and Adult-Onset Non-Atopic Asthma
A high body mass (BMI) index has repeatedly been associated with non-atopic asthma, but the biological mechanism linking obesity to asthma is still poorly understood. We aimed to test the hypothesis that inflammation and/or innate immunity plays a role in the obesity-asthma link. DNA methylome was measured in blood samples of 61 non-atopic participants with asthma and 146 non-atopic participants without asthma (non-smokers for at least 10 years) …
Causal Effects of Body Mass Index on Airflow Obstruction and Forced Mid-Expiratory Flow
Obesity has complex links to respiratory health. Mendelian randomization (MR) enables assessment of causality of body mass index (BMI) effects on airflow obstruction and mid-expiratory flow. In the adult SAPALDIA cohort, recruiting 9,651 population-representative samples aged 18–60 years at baseline (female 51%), BMI and the ratio of forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV 1 ) to forced vital capacity (FVC) as well as forced mid-expiratory flow…
Changes in socioeconomic resources and mental health after the second Covid-19 wave (2020–2021)
This study confirms the association of economic stressors and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic and highlights the exacerbating role of subjective risk perception on this association
A call for research and policy into building multi-layered social resilience toward a sustainable agricultural workforce in Switzerland
The agricultural workforce is exposed to rapidly changing working conditions due to societal, economic, political, and ecological challenges. In the Swiss farming community, poor mental wellbeing is a growing concern and research focuses on the distribution and hazards of psychological distress in farmers and their social network. This perspective benefits from insights of the first agricultural cohort in Switzerland, illustrating the complex fie…
Depression and anxiety symptoms in male and female farmers
Empirical research on farmers’ mental health in Switzerland is limited. This study uses cross-sectional data from the first follow-up of the FarmCoSwiss cohort to descriptively compare depression and anxiety symptom prevalence between Swiss farmers and the Swiss general population. Furthermore, the association of these mental health outcomes with farm-related characteristics and individual-based mental health protection strategies was explored. O…
Medicine (5 works) · Biology (4 works) · Internal Medicine (3 works) · Population (3 works) · Anxiety (2 works) · Asthma and respiratory diseases (2 works) · Biostatistics (2 works) · Body mass index (2 works) · Cohort (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works)