Dr Lyn Ferguson
- Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer (School of Cardiovascular & Metabolic Health)
email:
Lyn.Ferguson@glasgow.ac.uk
Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, G51 4TF
Biography
Dr Lyn Ferguson, (BSc (Hons), MBChB (Hons), PhD, MRCP, FRCPath) is a Consultant and Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer in Chemical Pathology and Metabolic Medicine at the University of Glasgow and NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde. She graduated from the University of Glasgow.
Dr Ferguson is a prior British Heart Foundation (BHF) Clinical Research Fellow. She undertook her PhD assessing cardiovascular and metabolic risk in inflammatory arthritis and modulation by the phosphodiesterase 4 (PDE4) inhibitor apremilast. She was lead co-investigator of the experimental medicine study Immune Metabolic Associations in Psoriatic Arthritis (IMAPA).
During a post-doctoral Scottish Clinical Research Excellence Development Scheme (SCREDS) Clinical Lectureship, she undertook further research into the role of chronic inflammation, obesity, and biomarkers in cardiometabolic disease, using the large real-world healthcare dataset UK Biobank. In 2022, she won the Royal College of Pathologists (RCPath) UK Research Medal for her work on body composition analysis in predicting cardiometabolic disease in psoriatic arthritis in collaboration with AMRA Medical.
She is now a Consultant in the Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow, where she specialises in Cardiovascular risk assessment and Nutrition.
Research interests
Dr Ferguson’s research focuses on how best to predict and manage obesity and related health conditions including cardiovascular disease, dyslipidaemia, diabetes, and musculoskeletal diseases. She is interested in the use of novel solutions, including machine learning, to better predict obesity related complications and optimise treatment response.
Research groups
Publications
2025
Siebert, Stefan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1802-7311, Sattar, Naveed
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1604-2593 and Ferguson, Lyn D.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6136-8349
(2025)
Weighing in on obesity and psoriatic arthritis – time to move beyond association to robust randomised trials.
Joint Bone Spine, 92(5),
105904.
(doi: 10.1016/j.jbspin.2025.105904)
(PMID:40239759)
Najm, Aurelie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6008-503X, Ferguson, Lyn D.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6136-8349 and McInnes, Iain
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6462-4280
(2025)
Cytokine pathways driving diverse tissue pathologies in rheumatoid arthritis.
Arthritis and Rheumatology,
(doi: 10.1002/art.43376)
(PMID:40922709)
(Accepted for Publication)
Sattar, Naveed ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1604-2593, Sattar, Lindsey J., McInnes, Iain B.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6462-4280, Siebert, Stefan
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1802-7311 and Ferguson, Lyn D.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6136-8349
(2025)
Obesity substantially impacts rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases: time to act.
Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, 84(6),
pp. 894-898.
(doi: 10.1016/j.ard.2025.02.013)
(PMID:40090785)
2024
Anderson, Jana J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7290-6635, Deo, Salil V.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4729-1461, Welsh, Paul
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7970-3643, Mackay, Danny F.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5381-7098, Ho, Frederick K.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7190-9025, Ferguson, Lyn D.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6136-8349, Celis-Morales, Carlos
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2612-3917, Gill, JasonM.R.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3615-0986, Pell, Jill P.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8898-7035 and Sattar, Naveed
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1604-2593
(2024)
In which common chronic conditions can (or cannot) obesity and lifestyle factors explain higher concentrations of C-reactive protein?
Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism, 26(12),
pp. 5786-5794.
(doi: 10.1111/dom.15949)
(PMID:39300958)
Carrasco-Marín, F. et al. (2024) Association of a dietary inflammatory index with cardiometabolic, endocrine, liver, renal and bones biomarkers: cross-sectional analysis of the UK Biobank study. Nutrition, Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases, 34(7), pp. 1731-1740. (doi: 10.1016/j.numecd.2024.03.010) (PMID:38664123)
Ferguson, Lyn D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6136-8349, Molenberghs, Geert, Verbeke, Geert, Rahimi, Kazem, Rao, Shishir, McInnes, Iain B.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6462-4280, McMurray, John J.V.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6317-3975, Sattar, Naveed
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1604-2593 and Conrad, Nathalie
(2024)
Gout and incidence of 12 cardiovascular diseases: a case–control study including 152 663 individuals with gout and 709 981 matched controls.
Lancet Rheumatology, 6(3),
e156-e167.
(doi: 10.1016/S2665-9913(23)00338-7)
2023
Ferguson, L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6136-8349, McInnes, I.B., Sattar, N.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1604-2593 and Conrad, N.
(2023)
Gout is Associated with Increased Cardiovascular Risk: Results from Analysis of the CPRD Dataset.
ESC Congress 2023, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 25–28 August 2023.
(doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehad655.2771)
2022
Ho, F. K. et al. (2022) Association of gamma-glutamyltransferase levels with total mortality, liver-related, and cardiovascular outcomes: a prospective cohort study in the UK Biobank. EClinicalMedicine, 48, 101435. (doi: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2022.101435) (PMID:35706481) (PMCID:PMC9112033)
Ferguson, L. D. et al. (2022) Effect of the phosphodiesterase 4 inhibitor apremilast on cardiometabolic outcomes in psoriatic disease – results of the Immune Metabolic Associations in Psoriatic Arthritis study. Rheumatology, 61(3), pp. 1026-1034. (doi: 10.1093/rheumatology/keab474) (PMID:34097014) (PMCID:PMC8889283)
Rodríguez-Gómez, I. et al. (2022) Osteoporosis and its association with cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, and cancer: findings from the UK Biobank prospective cohort study. Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 97(1), pp. 110-121. (doi: 10.1016/j.mayocp.2021.07.019) (PMID:34996542)
2021
Welsh, P. et al. (2021) Lipoprotein(a) and cardiovascular disease: prediction, attributable risk fraction and estimating benefits from novel interventions. European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, 28(18), pp. 1991-2000. (doi: 10.1093/eurjpc/zwaa063) (PMID:33624048)
Petermann-Rocha, Fanny, Ferguson, Lyn D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6136-8349, Gray, Stuart R.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8969-9636, Rodríguez-Gómez, Irene, Sattar, Naveed
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1604-2593, Siebert, Stefan
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1802-7311, Ho, Frederick K.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7190-9025, Pell, Jill P.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8898-7035 and Celis-Morales, Carlos
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2612-3917
(2021)
Association of sarcopenia with incident osteoporosis: a prospective study of 168,682 UK biobank participants.
Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle, 12(5),
pp. 1179-1188.
(doi: 10.1002/jcsm.12757)
(PMID:34264024)
(PMCID:PMC8517357)
Ferguson, Lyn D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6136-8349, Linge, Jennifer, Leinhard, Olof Dahlqvist, Woodward, Rosemary, Hall Barrientos, Pauline, Roditi, Giles, Radjenovic, Aleksandra
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1742-6863, McInnes, Iain B.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6462-4280, Siebert, Stefan
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1802-7311 and Sattar, Naveed
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1604-2593
(2021)
Psoriatic arthritis is associated with adverse body composition predictive of greater coronary heart disease and type 2 diabetes propensity – a cross-sectional study.
Rheumatology, 60(4),
pp. 1858-1862.
(doi: 10.1093/rheumatology/keaa604)
(PMID:33147607)
Ferguson, Lyn D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6136-8349, Sattar, Naveed
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1604-2593 and McInnes, Iain B.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6462-4280
(2021)
Managing cardiovascular risk in patients with rheumatic disease.
Medical Clinics of North America, 105(2),
pp. 247-262.
(doi: 10.1016/j.mcna.2020.09.010)
(PMID:33589100)
Anderson, J. J. et al. (2021) Ethnic differences in prevalence of actionable HbA1c levels in UK Biobank: implications for screening. BMJ Open Diabetes Research and Care, 9(1), e002176. (doi: 10.1136/bmjdrc-2021-002176) (PMID:34353880) (PMCID:PMC8344314)
2020
Ho, F. K. et al. (2020) Modifiable and non-modifiable risk factors for COVID-19, and comparison to risk factors for influenza and pneumonia: results from a UK Biobank prospective cohort study. BMJ Open, 10, e040402. (doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-040402) (PMID:33444201) (PMCID:PMC7678347)
Hayes, S. et al. (2020) Association between walking pace and stroke incidence: findings from the UK Biobank prospective cohort study. Stroke, 51(5), pp. 1388-1395. (doi: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.119.028064) (PMID:32299326)
Welsh, C. et al. (2020) Association of injury related hospital admissions with commuting by bicycle in the UK: prospective population based study. British Medical Journal, 368, m336. (doi: 10.1136/bmj.m336) (PMID:32161038) (PMCID:PMC7190046)
Welsh, C. et al. (2020) Glycated hemoglobin, prediabetes and the links to cardiovascular disease: data from UK Biobank. Diabetes Care, 43(2), pp. 440-445. (doi: 10.2337/dc19-1683) (PMID:31852727)
2019
Ferguson, Lyn D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6136-8349, Brown, Rosemary, Celis-Morales, Carlos
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2612-3917, Welsh, Paul
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7970-3643, Lyall, Donald M.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3850-1487, Pell, Jill P.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8898-7035, McInnes, Iain B.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6462-4280, Siebert, Stefan
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1802-7311 and Sattar, Naveed
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1604-2593
(2019)
Association of central adiposity with psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis and rheumatoid arthritis: a cross-sectional study of the UK Biobank.
Rheumatology, 58(12),
pp. 2137-2142.
(doi: 10.1093/rheumatology/kez192)
(PMID:31131407)
(PMCID:PMC6880847)
Ferguson, Lyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6136-8349, Welsh, Paul
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7970-3643, Brown, Rosemary, Tindell, Alistair, Kerrigan, Sean, Sattar, Naveed
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1604-2593, McInnes, Iain
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6462-4280 and Siebert, Stefan
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1802-7311
(2019)
Effect of Phosphodiesterase 4 Inhibition with Apremilast on Cardiometabolic Outcomes in Psoriatic Arthritis – Initial Results from the Immune Metabolic Associations in Psoriatic Arthritis (IMAPA) Study.
In: 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, 8-13 November 2019,
Sillars, A. et al. (2019) Association of fitness and grip-strength with heart failure: findings from the UK Biobank population-based study. Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 94(11), pp. 2230-2240. (doi: 10.1016/j.mayocp.2019.04.041) (PMID:31685151)
Muilwijk, M. et al. (2019) Contribution of type 2 diabetes to all-cause mortality, cardiovascular disease incidence and cancer incidence in white Europeans and South Asians: findings from the UK Biobank population-based cohort study. BMJ Open Diabetes Research and Care, 7(1), e000765. (doi: 10.1136/bmjdrc-2019-000765) (PMID:31908795) (PMCID:PMC6936483)
Welsh, C. et al. (2019) Comparison of conventional lipoprotein tests and apolipoproteins in the prediction of cardiovascular disease: data from UK Biobank. Circulation, 140(7), pp. 542-552. (doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.119.041149) (PMID:31216866) (PMCID:PMC6693929)
Budu-Aggrey, A. et al. (2019) Evidence of a causal relationship between body mass index and psoriasis: A mendelian randomization study. PLoS Medicine, 16(1), e1002739. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002739) (PMID:30703100) (PMCID:PMC6354959)
Ferguson, Lyn D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6136-8349 and Sattar, Naveed
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1604-2593
(2019)
Impact of obesity on cardiovascular disease.
In: Sbraccia, P. and Finer, N. (eds.)
Obesity: Pathogenesis, Diagnosis, and Treatment.
Series: Endocrinology (ENDOCR).
Springer: Cham, pp. 273-293.
ISBN 9783319469324
(doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-46933-1_25)
Ferguson, Lyn D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6136-8349, Siebert, Stefan
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1802-7311, McInnes, Iain B.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6462-4280 and Sattar, Naveed
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1604-2593
(2019)
Cardiometabolic comorbidities in RA and PsA: lessons learned and future directions.
Nature Reviews Rheumatology, 15,
pp. 461-474.
(doi: 10.1038/s41584-019-0256-0)
(PMID:31292564)
2018
Ferguson, L.D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6136-8349, Ntuk, U.E., Celis-Morales, C.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2612-3917, Mackay, D.F.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5381-7098, Pell, J.P.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8898-7035, Gill, J.M.R.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3615-0986 and Sattar, N.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1604-2593
(2018)
Men across a range of ethnicities have a higher prevalence of diabetes: findings from a cross-sectional study of 500000 UK Biobank participants.
Diabetic Medicine, 35(2),
pp. 270-276.
(doi: 10.1111/dme.13551)
(PMID:29171078)
2017
Ferguson, Lyn D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6136-8349 and Sattar, Naveed
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1604-2593
(2017)
Impact of obesity on cardiovascular disease.
In: Sbraccia, Paolo and Finer, Nicholas (eds.)
Obesity: Pathogenesis, Diagnosis, and Treatment.
Series: Endocrinology (4).
Springer International Publishing, pp. 1-21.
ISBN 9783319476858
(doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-47685-8_25-1)
2015
Ferguson, Lyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6136-8349 and Sattar, Naveed
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1604-2593
(2015)
Endothelial function measures: not for clinical prime time?
International Journal of Clinical Practice, 69(6),
pp. 624-625.
(doi: 10.1111/ijcp.12642)
(PMID:26010940)
Ferguson, L.D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6136-8349 and Logue, J.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9549-2738
(2015)
Has IMPROVE-IT improved cardiovascular outcome?
Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 45(3),
pp. 215-217.
(PMID:26517102)
2013
Ferguson, Lyn D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6136-8349, McKay, Gerry
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-5572-5246 and Fisher, Miles
(2013)
Bendroflumethiazide.
Practical Diabetes, 30(8),
340-341a.
(doi: 10.1002/pdi.1808)
Ferguson, L.D. and Sattar, N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1604-2593
(2013)
Reducing cardiovascular disease risk in type 2 diabetes: is the focus on glycaemia warranted?
Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism, 15(5),
pp. 387-391.
(doi: 10.1111/dom.12018)
2011
Ferguson, L.D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6136-8349, Paterson, T., Ramsay, F., Arrol, K., Dabernig, J., Shaw-Dunn, J. and Morley, S.
(2011)
Applied anatomy of the latissimus dorsi free flap for refinement in one-stage facial reanimation.
Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, 64(11),
pp. 1417-1423.
(doi: 10.1016/j.bjps.2011.06.013)
Higgins, Peter, Ferguson, Lyn D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6136-8349 and Walters, Matthew R.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5743-5871
(2011)
Xanthine oxidase inhibition for the treatment of stroke disease: a novel therapeutic approach.
Expert Review of Cardiovascular Therapy, 9(4),
pp. 399-401.
(doi: 10.1586/erc.11.29)
(PMID:21517722)
Articles
Siebert, Stefan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1802-7311, Sattar, Naveed
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1604-2593 and Ferguson, Lyn D.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6136-8349
(2025)
Weighing in on obesity and psoriatic arthritis – time to move beyond association to robust randomised trials.
Joint Bone Spine, 92(5),
105904.
(doi: 10.1016/j.jbspin.2025.105904)
(PMID:40239759)
Najm, Aurelie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6008-503X, Ferguson, Lyn D.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6136-8349 and McInnes, Iain
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6462-4280
(2025)
Cytokine pathways driving diverse tissue pathologies in rheumatoid arthritis.
Arthritis and Rheumatology,
(doi: 10.1002/art.43376)
(PMID:40922709)
(Accepted for Publication)
Sattar, Naveed ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1604-2593, Sattar, Lindsey J., McInnes, Iain B.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6462-4280, Siebert, Stefan
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1802-7311 and Ferguson, Lyn D.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6136-8349
(2025)
Obesity substantially impacts rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases: time to act.
Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, 84(6),
pp. 894-898.
(doi: 10.1016/j.ard.2025.02.013)
(PMID:40090785)
Anderson, Jana J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7290-6635, Deo, Salil V.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4729-1461, Welsh, Paul
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7970-3643, Mackay, Danny F.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5381-7098, Ho, Frederick K.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7190-9025, Ferguson, Lyn D.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6136-8349, Celis-Morales, Carlos
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2612-3917, Gill, JasonM.R.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3615-0986, Pell, Jill P.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8898-7035 and Sattar, Naveed
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1604-2593
(2024)
In which common chronic conditions can (or cannot) obesity and lifestyle factors explain higher concentrations of C-reactive protein?
Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism, 26(12),
pp. 5786-5794.
(doi: 10.1111/dom.15949)
(PMID:39300958)
Carrasco-Marín, F. et al. (2024) Association of a dietary inflammatory index with cardiometabolic, endocrine, liver, renal and bones biomarkers: cross-sectional analysis of the UK Biobank study. Nutrition, Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases, 34(7), pp. 1731-1740. (doi: 10.1016/j.numecd.2024.03.010) (PMID:38664123)
Ferguson, Lyn D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6136-8349, Molenberghs, Geert, Verbeke, Geert, Rahimi, Kazem, Rao, Shishir, McInnes, Iain B.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6462-4280, McMurray, John J.V.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6317-3975, Sattar, Naveed
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1604-2593 and Conrad, Nathalie
(2024)
Gout and incidence of 12 cardiovascular diseases: a case–control study including 152 663 individuals with gout and 709 981 matched controls.
Lancet Rheumatology, 6(3),
e156-e167.
(doi: 10.1016/S2665-9913(23)00338-7)
Ho, F. K. et al. (2022) Association of gamma-glutamyltransferase levels with total mortality, liver-related, and cardiovascular outcomes: a prospective cohort study in the UK Biobank. EClinicalMedicine, 48, 101435. (doi: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2022.101435) (PMID:35706481) (PMCID:PMC9112033)
Ferguson, L. D. et al. (2022) Effect of the phosphodiesterase 4 inhibitor apremilast on cardiometabolic outcomes in psoriatic disease – results of the Immune Metabolic Associations in Psoriatic Arthritis study. Rheumatology, 61(3), pp. 1026-1034. (doi: 10.1093/rheumatology/keab474) (PMID:34097014) (PMCID:PMC8889283)
Rodríguez-Gómez, I. et al. (2022) Osteoporosis and its association with cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, and cancer: findings from the UK Biobank prospective cohort study. Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 97(1), pp. 110-121. (doi: 10.1016/j.mayocp.2021.07.019) (PMID:34996542)
Welsh, P. et al. (2021) Lipoprotein(a) and cardiovascular disease: prediction, attributable risk fraction and estimating benefits from novel interventions. European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, 28(18), pp. 1991-2000. (doi: 10.1093/eurjpc/zwaa063) (PMID:33624048)
Petermann-Rocha, Fanny, Ferguson, Lyn D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6136-8349, Gray, Stuart R.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8969-9636, Rodríguez-Gómez, Irene, Sattar, Naveed
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1604-2593, Siebert, Stefan
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1802-7311, Ho, Frederick K.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7190-9025, Pell, Jill P.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8898-7035 and Celis-Morales, Carlos
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2612-3917
(2021)
Association of sarcopenia with incident osteoporosis: a prospective study of 168,682 UK biobank participants.
Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle, 12(5),
pp. 1179-1188.
(doi: 10.1002/jcsm.12757)
(PMID:34264024)
(PMCID:PMC8517357)
Ferguson, Lyn D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6136-8349, Linge, Jennifer, Leinhard, Olof Dahlqvist, Woodward, Rosemary, Hall Barrientos, Pauline, Roditi, Giles, Radjenovic, Aleksandra
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1742-6863, McInnes, Iain B.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6462-4280, Siebert, Stefan
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1802-7311 and Sattar, Naveed
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1604-2593
(2021)
Psoriatic arthritis is associated with adverse body composition predictive of greater coronary heart disease and type 2 diabetes propensity – a cross-sectional study.
Rheumatology, 60(4),
pp. 1858-1862.
(doi: 10.1093/rheumatology/keaa604)
(PMID:33147607)
Ferguson, Lyn D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6136-8349, Sattar, Naveed
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1604-2593 and McInnes, Iain B.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6462-4280
(2021)
Managing cardiovascular risk in patients with rheumatic disease.
Medical Clinics of North America, 105(2),
pp. 247-262.
(doi: 10.1016/j.mcna.2020.09.010)
(PMID:33589100)
Anderson, J. J. et al. (2021) Ethnic differences in prevalence of actionable HbA1c levels in UK Biobank: implications for screening. BMJ Open Diabetes Research and Care, 9(1), e002176. (doi: 10.1136/bmjdrc-2021-002176) (PMID:34353880) (PMCID:PMC8344314)
Ho, F. K. et al. (2020) Modifiable and non-modifiable risk factors for COVID-19, and comparison to risk factors for influenza and pneumonia: results from a UK Biobank prospective cohort study. BMJ Open, 10, e040402. (doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-040402) (PMID:33444201) (PMCID:PMC7678347)
Hayes, S. et al. (2020) Association between walking pace and stroke incidence: findings from the UK Biobank prospective cohort study. Stroke, 51(5), pp. 1388-1395. (doi: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.119.028064) (PMID:32299326)
Welsh, C. et al. (2020) Association of injury related hospital admissions with commuting by bicycle in the UK: prospective population based study. British Medical Journal, 368, m336. (doi: 10.1136/bmj.m336) (PMID:32161038) (PMCID:PMC7190046)
Welsh, C. et al. (2020) Glycated hemoglobin, prediabetes and the links to cardiovascular disease: data from UK Biobank. Diabetes Care, 43(2), pp. 440-445. (doi: 10.2337/dc19-1683) (PMID:31852727)
Ferguson, Lyn D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6136-8349, Brown, Rosemary, Celis-Morales, Carlos
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2612-3917, Welsh, Paul
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7970-3643, Lyall, Donald M.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3850-1487, Pell, Jill P.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8898-7035, McInnes, Iain B.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6462-4280, Siebert, Stefan
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1802-7311 and Sattar, Naveed
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1604-2593
(2019)
Association of central adiposity with psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis and rheumatoid arthritis: a cross-sectional study of the UK Biobank.
Rheumatology, 58(12),
pp. 2137-2142.
(doi: 10.1093/rheumatology/kez192)
(PMID:31131407)
(PMCID:PMC6880847)
Sillars, A. et al. (2019) Association of fitness and grip-strength with heart failure: findings from the UK Biobank population-based study. Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 94(11), pp. 2230-2240. (doi: 10.1016/j.mayocp.2019.04.041) (PMID:31685151)
Muilwijk, M. et al. (2019) Contribution of type 2 diabetes to all-cause mortality, cardiovascular disease incidence and cancer incidence in white Europeans and South Asians: findings from the UK Biobank population-based cohort study. BMJ Open Diabetes Research and Care, 7(1), e000765. (doi: 10.1136/bmjdrc-2019-000765) (PMID:31908795) (PMCID:PMC6936483)
Welsh, C. et al. (2019) Comparison of conventional lipoprotein tests and apolipoproteins in the prediction of cardiovascular disease: data from UK Biobank. Circulation, 140(7), pp. 542-552. (doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.119.041149) (PMID:31216866) (PMCID:PMC6693929)
Budu-Aggrey, A. et al. (2019) Evidence of a causal relationship between body mass index and psoriasis: A mendelian randomization study. PLoS Medicine, 16(1), e1002739. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002739) (PMID:30703100) (PMCID:PMC6354959)
Ferguson, Lyn D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6136-8349, Siebert, Stefan
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1802-7311, McInnes, Iain B.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6462-4280 and Sattar, Naveed
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1604-2593
(2019)
Cardiometabolic comorbidities in RA and PsA: lessons learned and future directions.
Nature Reviews Rheumatology, 15,
pp. 461-474.
(doi: 10.1038/s41584-019-0256-0)
(PMID:31292564)
Ferguson, L.D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6136-8349, Ntuk, U.E., Celis-Morales, C.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2612-3917, Mackay, D.F.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5381-7098, Pell, J.P.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8898-7035, Gill, J.M.R.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3615-0986 and Sattar, N.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1604-2593
(2018)
Men across a range of ethnicities have a higher prevalence of diabetes: findings from a cross-sectional study of 500000 UK Biobank participants.
Diabetic Medicine, 35(2),
pp. 270-276.
(doi: 10.1111/dme.13551)
(PMID:29171078)
Ferguson, Lyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6136-8349 and Sattar, Naveed
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1604-2593
(2015)
Endothelial function measures: not for clinical prime time?
International Journal of Clinical Practice, 69(6),
pp. 624-625.
(doi: 10.1111/ijcp.12642)
(PMID:26010940)
Ferguson, L.D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6136-8349 and Logue, J.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9549-2738
(2015)
Has IMPROVE-IT improved cardiovascular outcome?
Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 45(3),
pp. 215-217.
(PMID:26517102)
Ferguson, Lyn D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6136-8349, McKay, Gerry
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-5572-5246 and Fisher, Miles
(2013)
Bendroflumethiazide.
Practical Diabetes, 30(8),
340-341a.
(doi: 10.1002/pdi.1808)
Ferguson, L.D. and Sattar, N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1604-2593
(2013)
Reducing cardiovascular disease risk in type 2 diabetes: is the focus on glycaemia warranted?
Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism, 15(5),
pp. 387-391.
(doi: 10.1111/dom.12018)
Ferguson, L.D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6136-8349, Paterson, T., Ramsay, F., Arrol, K., Dabernig, J., Shaw-Dunn, J. and Morley, S.
(2011)
Applied anatomy of the latissimus dorsi free flap for refinement in one-stage facial reanimation.
Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, 64(11),
pp. 1417-1423.
(doi: 10.1016/j.bjps.2011.06.013)
Higgins, Peter, Ferguson, Lyn D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6136-8349 and Walters, Matthew R.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5743-5871
(2011)
Xanthine oxidase inhibition for the treatment of stroke disease: a novel therapeutic approach.
Expert Review of Cardiovascular Therapy, 9(4),
pp. 399-401.
(doi: 10.1586/erc.11.29)
(PMID:21517722)
Book Sections
Ferguson, Lyn D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6136-8349 and Sattar, Naveed
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1604-2593
(2019)
Impact of obesity on cardiovascular disease.
In: Sbraccia, P. and Finer, N. (eds.)
Obesity: Pathogenesis, Diagnosis, and Treatment.
Series: Endocrinology (ENDOCR).
Springer: Cham, pp. 273-293.
ISBN 9783319469324
(doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-46933-1_25)
Ferguson, Lyn D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6136-8349 and Sattar, Naveed
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1604-2593
(2017)
Impact of obesity on cardiovascular disease.
In: Sbraccia, Paolo and Finer, Nicholas (eds.)
Obesity: Pathogenesis, Diagnosis, and Treatment.
Series: Endocrinology (4).
Springer International Publishing, pp. 1-21.
ISBN 9783319476858
(doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-47685-8_25-1)
Conference or Workshop Item
Ferguson, L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6136-8349, McInnes, I.B., Sattar, N.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1604-2593 and Conrad, N.
(2023)
Gout is Associated with Increased Cardiovascular Risk: Results from Analysis of the CPRD Dataset.
ESC Congress 2023, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 25–28 August 2023.
(doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehad655.2771)
Conference Proceedings
Ferguson, Lyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6136-8349, Welsh, Paul
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7970-3643, Brown, Rosemary, Tindell, Alistair, Kerrigan, Sean, Sattar, Naveed
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1604-2593, McInnes, Iain
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6462-4280 and Siebert, Stefan
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1802-7311
(2019)
Effect of Phosphodiesterase 4 Inhibition with Apremilast on Cardiometabolic Outcomes in Psoriatic Arthritis – Initial Results from the Immune Metabolic Associations in Psoriatic Arthritis (IMAPA) Study.
In: 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, 8-13 November 2019,
Grants
Grants and Awards listed are those received whilst working with the University of Glasgow.
- Advancing the case for timely weight loss trials in psoriatic disease by better understanding differences in body composition
Group for Research and Assessment of Psoriasis and Proriatic Arthritis
2024 - 2025
- Sub-phenotyping Immune Mediated Inflammatory Diseases (IMIDs) Using Body Composition - Unravelling the associations of obesity with IMID.
Mason Medical Research Trust
2024 - 2025
Teaching
Lyn Ferguson lectures on the MBChB year 2 curriculum.
Additional information
Prizes, Awards and Distinctions
- 2017: Diabetes UK Professional Conference - Diabetes UK Type 2 Diabetes Research Award
- 2015: Association of Clinical Biochemistry - John King Award
- 2013: European Calcified Tissue Society (ECTS) - Anniversary Travel Grant
- 2008: University of Glasgow - Lorimer Bursary in Anatomy
- 2008: Glasgow Cardiovascular Research Centre - Wellcome Trust Vacation Scholarship
