I am a professor of rheumatology / rheumatic disease epidemiology at Karolinska Institutet, and a senior consultant rheumatologist at the Karolinska University Hospital.
Selected publications from PubMed
Difficult-to-manage and treatment-refractory psoriatic arthritis in patients treated with biological and targeted synthetic DMARDs: prevalence and characteristics in 5 Nordic registries.
Nielung LM, Giuseppe DD, Hetland ML, Askling J, Nordström DC, Provan SA, Gudbjornsson B, Palsson O, Delcoigne B, Dreyer LW, Michelsen B, Wallman JK, Glintborg B
Ann Rheum Dis. 2026 Sep 4 pii: S0003-4967(26)00487-5. doi: 10.1016/j.ard.2026.08.002.
Impact of Family History on Colorectal Cancer Risk in Inflammatory Bowel Disease and in Matched General Population Comparators.
Everhov ÅH, Kristjánsson K, Ludvigsson JF, Halfvarson J, Backman AS, Myrelid P, Nordenvall C, Sørensen HT, Askling J, Olén O
Gastroenterology. 2026 Sep 3 pii: S0016-5085(26)07236-7. doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2026.08.029.
Long-Term Risk of Rheumatoid Arthritis in Individuals With Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Population-Based Matched Cohort Study.
Zhu EH, Levine SZ, Morin M, Yin W, Christofferson B, Askling J, Rivera N, Reichenberg A, Buxbaum JD, Sandin S, Yip BHK
Autism Res. 2026 Aug 28;:e70349 doi: 10.1002/aur.70349.
Absolute Risk of Malignancy by Treatment in Patients With Crohn's Disease Compared with the General Population: A Nationwide Population-Based Cohort Study.
Everhov ÅH, Eriksson J, Söderling J, Askling J, Halfvarson J, Smedby KE, Ludvigsson JF, Sørensen HT, Olén O, SWIBREG Study Group
Am J Gastroenterol. 2026 Aug 26 doi: 10.14309/ajg.0000000000004119.
Cervical human papillomavirus status among women with chronic inflammatory rheumatic diseases: matched cohort study.
Frisell T, Askling J, Dillner J, Sundström K
J Natl Cancer Inst. 2026 Aug 17 pii: djag222. doi: 10.1093/jnci/djag222.
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