Biography

Josef Fritz is a postdoctoral researcher and biostatistician. His research focuses on the relationship between metabolic disorders and chronic diseases, particularly cardiovascular disease, cancer and kidney disease, with additional expertise in causal inference and mediation analysis. Dr. Fritz has held research positions in the USA and Sweden, and has received awards such as the Austrian Society of Nephrology Prize (2022) and OeGEPI Best Paper Award (2020).

Selected publications

• Fritz J, Jochems SHJ, Bjørge T, Wood AM, Häggström C, Ulmer H, Nagel G, Zitt E, Engeland A, Harlid S, Drake I, Stattin P, Stocks T. Body mass index, triglyceride-glucose index, and prostate cancer death: a mediation analysis in eight European cohorts. Br J Cancer. 2024 Feb;130(2):308-316.
• Fritz J, Huang T, Depner CM, Zeleznik OA, Cespedes Feliciano EM, Li W, Stone KL, Manson JE, Clish C, Sofer T, Schernhammer E, Rexrode K, Redline S, Wright KP, Vetter C. Sleep duration, plasma metabolites, and obesity and diabetes: a metabolome-wide association study in US women. Sleep. 2023 Jan 11;46(1):zsac226.
• Fritz J, Brozek W, Concin H, Nagel G, Kerschbaum J, Lhotta K, Ulmer H, Zitt E. The Association of Excess Body Weight with Risk of ESKD Is Mediated Through Insulin Resistance, Hypertension, and Hyperuricemia. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2022 Jul;33(7):1377-1389.
• Fritz J, Bjørge T, Nagel G, Manjer J, Engeland A, Häggström C, Concin H, Teleka S, Tretli S, Gylling B, Lang A, Stattin P, Stocks T, Ulmer H. The triglyceride-glucose index as a measure of insulin resistance and risk of obesity-related cancers. Int J Epidemiol. 2020 Feb 1;49(1):193-204.