Publications

Peer reviewed journals

2024

• Wattenbach C, Ellrichmann G, Feinkohl I, Voß S, Brinks R. Incidence of Parkinson's disease in Germany based on prevalence data from 70 million patients of the statutory health insurance. BMC Neurol 24(1):221, 2024, doi: 10.1186/s12883-024-03739-4
• Voeltz D, Vetterer M, Seidel-Jacobs E, Brinks R, Tönnies T, Hoyer A. Projecting the economic burden of type 1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus in Germany from 2010 until 2040. Popul Health Metr 22(1):17, 2024, doi: 10.1186/s12963-024-00337-x
• Silverman-Retana O, Brinks R, Hoyer A, Witte DR, Tönnies T. Using the illness-death model to estimate age- and sex-standardized incidence rates of diabetes in Mexico from 2003 to 2015. BMC Public Health 24(1):1882, 2024, doi: 10.1186/s12889-024-19281-4.
• Kurt T, Vossen D, Schumacher F, Strunk J, Fedkov D, Peine C, Lang F, Khalil A, Brinks R, Vordenbäumen S. Effect of Lifestyle Counselling via a Mobile Application on Disease Activity Control in Inflammatory Arthritis: A Single-Blinded, Randomized Controlled Study. Nutrients 16(10):1488, 2024, doi: 10.3390/nu16101488
• Wang J, Vordenbäumen S, Schneider M, Brinks R. Population-based epidemiological projections of rheumatoid arthritis in Germany until 2040. Scand J Rheumatol. 2024 May;53(3):161-172, 2024, doi: 10.1080/03009742.2024.2312693
• Deike M, Wang J, Brinks R, Meller S, Ocker L, Bechara FG, Distler JHW, Baraliakos X, Kiefer D, Sewerin P. Population-based incidence of psoriasis vulgaris in Germany: analysis of national statutory insurance data from 65 million population. Arch Dermatol Res 316(2):65, 2024, doi: 10.1007/s00403-023-02796-y.
• Voß S, Hoyer A, Landwehr S, Pavkov ME, Gregg E, Brinks R. Estimation of mortality rate ratios for chronic conditions with misclassification of disease status at death. BMC Med Res Methodol 24(1):2, 2023, doi: 10.1186/s12874-023-02111-3.

2023

• Wang J, Tulka S, Knippschild S, Schneider M, Distler JHW, Baraliakos X, Brinks R, Sewerin P. A population-based projection of psoriatic arthritis in Germany until 2050: analysis of national statutory health insurance data of 65 million German population. Rheumatol Int, 2023, doi: 10.1007/s00296-023-05422-2.
• Piccininni M, Brinks R, Rohmann JL, Kurth T. Estimation of migraine prevalence considering active and inactive states across different age groups. J Headache Pain 24(1):83, 2023, doi: 10.1186/s10194-023-01624-y
• Vordenbäumen S, Kleefisch M, Sokolowski A, Düsing C, Richter JG, Brinks R, Schneider M, Chehab G. Beneficial effects associated to a healthy lifestyle in systemic lupus erythematosus: A cross-sectional study. Lupus 2023, doi: 10.1177/09612033231175289
• Voeltz D, Brinks R, Tönnies T, Hoyer A. Future number of people with diagnosed type 1 diabetes in Germany until 2040: an analysis based on claims data. BMJ Open Diabetes Res Care 11(2):e003156, 2023 doi: 10.1136/bmjdrc-2022-003156
• Hass L, Tulka S, Tönnies T, Hoyer A, Palm R, Knippschild S, Brinks R. Age-specific incidence of need for long-term care for men and women in Germany 2015: Cross-sectional study comprising 82 million people. F1000Res 27;12:102 doi: 10.12688/f1000research.129434.1, 2023
• Frenken M, Ostendorf B, Brinks R, Schleich C, Wilms LM, Vordenbäumen S, Müller-Lutz A, Richter JG, Sander O, Antoch G, Schneider M, Baraliakos X, Abrar DB, Sewerin P. Proof-of-Concept Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled Trial Measuring Cartilage Composition in Early Rheumatoid Arthritis under TNF-a-Inhibitor Therapy. J Clin Med 12(6):2306. doi: 10.3390/jcm12062306, 2023
• Hoyer A, Brinks R, Tönnies T, Saydah SH, D'Agostino RB Jr, Divers J, Isom S, Dabelea D, Lawrence JM, Mayer-Davis EJ, Pihoker C, Dolan L, Imperatore G. Estimating incidence of type 1 and type 2 diabetes using prevalence data: the SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth study. BMC Med Res Methodol 14;23(1):39, 2023 doi: 10.1186/s12874-023-01862-3.
• Tönnies T, Hoyer A, Brinks R, Kuss O, Hering R, Schulz M. Spatio-Temporal Trends in the Incidence of Type 2 Diabetes in Germany-Analysis of the Claims Data of 63 Million Persons With Statutory Health Insurance From 2014 to 2019. Dtsch Arztebl Int, 2023 doi: 10.3238/arztebl.m2022.0405
• Tönnies T, Brinks R, Isom S, Dabelea D, Divers J, Mayer-Davis EJ, Lawrence JM, Pihoker C, Dolan L, Liese AD, Saydah SH, D'Agostino RB, Hoyer A, Imperatore G. Projections of Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes Burden in the U.S. Population Aged 20 Years Through 2060: The SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth Study. Diabetes Care 46(2):313-320, doi: 10.2337/dc22-0945, 2023

2022

• Brinks R, Küchenhoff H, Timm J, Kurth T, Hoyer A. Epidemiological measures for assessing the dynamics of the SARS-CoV-2-outbreak: Simulation study about bias by incomplete case-detection. PLoS One17(10):e0276311, 2022 doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0276311.
• Tomic D, Morton JI, Chen L, ..., Brinks R, ..., Magliano DJ. Lifetime risk, life expectancy, and years of life lost to type 2 diabetes in 23 high-income jurisdictions: a multinational, population-based study. Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol 29:S2213-8587(22)00252-2, 2022.
• Brinks R, Tönnies T, Hoyer A. Importance of Diagnostic Accuracy in Big Data: False-Positive Diagnoses of Type 2 Diabetes in Health Insurance Claims Data of 70 Million Germans, Front Epidemiol 2:887335, 2022, 10.3389/fepid.2022.887335
• Koyama AK, Cheng YJ, Brinks R, Xie H, Gregg EW, Hoyer A, Pavkov ME, Imperatore G. Trends in lifetime risk and years of potential life lost from diabetes in the United States, 1997-2018. PLoS One;17(5):e0268805. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0268805, 2022
• Voeltz D, Tönnies T, Brinks R, Hoyer A. Future prevalence of type 2 diabetes-A comparative analysis of chronic disease projection methods. PLoS One 17(3):e0264739, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0264739, 2022.
• Lautwein A, Ostendorf B, Vordenbäumen S, Liedmann A, Brinks R, Giulini M, Ohrndorf S, Backhaus M, Acar H, Sander O, Richter JG, Schneider M, Sewerin P. Musculoskeletal ultrasound as a screening-tool for rheumatoid arthritis: results of the "Rheuma-Truck" screening and awareness initiative. Adv Rheumatol. 62(1):1, 2022

2021

• Deike M, Brinks R, Meller S, Schneider M, Sewerin P. Risk of psoriatic arthritis depending on age: analysis of data from 65 million people on statutory insurance in Germany. RMD Open. doi: 10.1136/rmdopen-2021-001975, 2021.
• Kernder A, Düsing C, Richter J, Brinks R, Fischer-Betz R, Winkler-Rohlfing B, Aringer M, Schneider M, Chehab G. Factors detrimental to work productivity and daily activities in systemic lupus erythematosus patients - Analysis of the German LuLa study. Lupus DOI: 10.1177/09612033211045063, 2021
• Tönnies T, Rathmann W, Hoyer A, Brinks R, Kuss O. Quantifying the underestimation of projected global diabetes prevalence by the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) Diabetes Atlas. BMJ Open Diabetes Res Care 9(1):e002122, 2021
• Vordenbäumen S, Sokolowski A, Rosenbaum A, Gebhard C, Raithel J, Düsing C, Chehab G, Richter JG, Brinks R, Rehli M, Schneider M. Methyl donor micronutrients, CD40-ligand methylation and disease activity in systemic lupus erythematosus: A cross-sectional association study, Lupus, 2021
• Brinks R, Tönnies T, Hoyer A. Impact of diagnostic accuracy on the estimation of excess mortality from incidence and prevalence: simulation study and application to diabetes in German men. F1000Res, 10:49, 2021
• Mucke J, Brinks R, Dimitriou A, Richter JG, Schneider M. Treatment expectations as a possible prognostic factor for DMARD response in rheumatoid arthritis: a prospective cohort study. Ther Adv Musculoskelet Dis. 13:1759720X211015829, 2021
• Mucke J, Alarcon-Riquelme M, Andersen J, Aringer M, Bombardieri S, Brinks R, ..., Schneider M. What are the topics you care about making trials in lupus more effective? Results of an Open Space meeting of international lupus experts. Lupus Sci Med. 8(1):e000506, 2021
• Davis K, Perez-Guzman P, Hoyer A, Brinks R, Gregg E, Althoff KN, Justice AC, Reiss P, Gregson S, Smit M. Association between HIV infection and hypertension: a global systematic review and meta-analysis of cross-sectional studies. BMC Med. 19(1):105, 2021
• Tönnies T, Hoyer A, Brinks R. Productivity-adjusted life years lost due to type 2 diabetes in Germany in 2020 and 2040. Diabetologia, 2021
• Aringer M, Brinks R, ... Johnson SR. European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR)/American College of Rheumatology (ACR) SLE classification criteria item performance. Ann Rheum Dis, 2021
• Tönnies T, Heidemann C, Paprott R, Seidel-Jacobs E, Scheidt-Nave C, Brinks R, Hoyer A. Estimating the impact of tax policy interventions on the projected number and prevalence of adults with type 2 diabetes in Germany between 2020 and 2040, BMJ Open Diab Res Care 9:e001813, 2021
• Kernder A, Richter JG, Fischer-Betz R, Winkler-Rohlfing B, Brinks R, Aringer M, Schneider M, Chehab G. Delayed diagnosis adversely affects outcome in systemic lupus erythematosus: Cross sectional analysis of the LuLa cohort. Lupus, 2021

2020

• Abrar DB, Schleich C, Brinks R, Goertz C, Frenken M, Schneider M, Nebelung S, Sewerin P. Introduction of a Simplified Psoriatic Arthritis Magnetic Resonance Imaging Score (sPsAMRIS): A Potential Tool for Treatment Monitoring in Peripheral Psoriatic Arthritis. Diagnostics (Basel): 10(12):1093, 2020
• Vordenbäumen S, Rosenbaum A, Gebhard C, Raithel J, Sokolowski A, Düsing C, Chehab G, Richter JG, Brinks R, Rehli M, Schneider M. Associations of site- specific CD4+-T-cell hypomethylation within CD40-ligand promotor and enhancer regions with disease activity of women with systemic lupus erythematosus. Lupus. 2020
• Kurth T, Brinks R, Predicting the pandemic, BMJ 371:m3932, 2020
• Abrar DB, Schleich C, Brinks R, Goertz C, Schneider M, Nebelung S, Sewerin P. Differentiating rheumatoid and psoriatic arthritis: a systematic analysis of high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging features-preliminary findings, Skeletal Radiol, doi: 10.1007/s00256-020-03588-5, 2020
• Johnson SR, Brinks R, Costenbader KH, Daikh D, Mosca M, ..., Aringer M. Performance of the 2019 EULAR/ACR classification criteria for systemic lupus erythematosus in early disease, across sexes and ethnicities. Ann Rheum Dis, 2020
• Vordenbäumen S, Brinks R, Schriek P, Lueking A, Richter JG, Budde P, Schulz-Knappe P, Zucht HD, Callhoff J, Schneider M. Profiling of IgG antibodies targeting unmodified and corresponding citrullinated autoantigens in a multicenter national cohort of early arthritis in Germany. Arthritis Res Ther. 2020;22(1):167.
• Abrar DB, Schleich C, Nebelung S, Frenken M, Ullrich T, Radke KL, Antoch G, Vordenbäumen S, Brinks R, Schneider M, Ostendorf B, Sewerin P. Proteoglycan loss in the articular cartilage is associated with severity of joint inflammation in psoriatic arthritis-a compositional magnetic resonance imaging study. Arthritis Res Ther. 22(1):124, 2020
• Brinks R, Tönnies T, Hoyer A. Assessing two methods for estimating excess mortality of chronic diseases from aggregated data. BMC Res Notes 13(1):216, 2020
• Vordenbäumen S, Sokolowski A, Kutzner L, Rund KM, Düsing C, Chehab G, Richter JG, Brinks R, Schneider M, Schebb NH. Erythrocyte membrane polyunsaturated fatty acid profiles are associated with systemic inflammation and fish consumption in systemic lupus erythematosus: a cross-sectional study. Lupus 29(6):554-559, 2020
• Abrar DB, Schleich C, Nebelung S, Frenken M, Radke KL, Vordenbäumen S, Brinks R, Schneider M, Ostendorf B, McGonagle D, Sewerin P. High-resolution MRI of flexor tendon pulleys using a 16-channel hand coil: disease detection and differentiation of psoriatic and rheumatoid arthritis. Arthritis Res Ther 22(1):40, 2020
• Kernder A, Richter JG, Fischer-Betz R, Winkler-Rohlfing B, Brinks R, Schneider M, Chehab G. Quality of care predicts outcome in systemic lupus erythematosus: a cross-sectional analysis of a German long-term study (LuLa cohort). Lupus, 29(2):136-143, 2020

2019

• Hoyer A, Kaufmann S, Brinks R. Risk factors in the illness-death model: Simulation study and the partial differential equation about incidence and prevalence, PLoS One, 2019
• Jacobs E, Tönnies T, Rathmann W, Brinks R, Hoyer A. Association between Regional Deprivation and Type 2 Diabetes Incidence in Germany, BMJ Open Diabetes Research, 2019
• Brinks R, Kaufmann S, Hoyer A, Gregg EW, Saal J. Analysing detection of chronic diseases with prolonged sub-clinical periods: modelling and application to hypertension in the U.S. BMC Med Res Methodol 19(1):213, 2019
• Haase I, Mucke J, Chehab G, Fischer-Betz R, Schneider M, Brinks R. Incidence of systemic lupus erythematosus in Colombia: data from the National Health Registry 2012-2016. Lupus. 2019
• Mucke J, Brinks R, Fischer-Betz R, Richter JG, Sander O, Schneider M, Chehab G. Patient Satisfaction And Disease Control In Patients With Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Is Not Affected By Switching From Intravenous Belimumab To Subcutaneous Injections, Pat Prefer Adher, 13, 1889–94, 2019
• Touma Z, Cervera R, Brinks R, Lorenzoni V, Tani C, Hoyer BF, Costenbader KH, Sebastian GD, Navarra SV, Bonfa E, Ramsey-Goldman R, Tedeschi SK, Dörner T, Johnson SR, Aringer M, Mosca M, ACR/EULAR group, Associations among classification criteria items within Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Arthr Care Res (Hoboken), 2019
• Pongratz G, Frieser R, Brinks R, Schneider M, Hartung W, Fleck M, Ehrenstein B. Association between autoantibody level and disease activity in rheumatoid arthritis is dependent on baseline inflammation, Clin Exp Rheum, 2019
• Vordenbäumen S, Brinks R, Sander O, Chehab G, Lozitiello-Kiroudis G, Acar H, Richter J, Fischer-Betz R, Schneider M. Determinanten gesundheitsbezogener Lebensqualität bei systemischem Lupus erythematodes: eine monozentrische, retrospektive Langzeitobservationsstudie in Deutschland, Z Rheumatol.
• Aringer M, Costenbader K, Daikh D, Brinks R, Mosca M, Ramsey-Goldman R, Smolen JS, Wofsy D, Boumpas DT, Kamen DL, Jayne D, Cervera R, Costedoat-Chalumeau N, Diamond B, Gladman DD, Hahn B, Hiepe F, Jacobsen S, Khanna D, Lerstrom K, Massarotti E, McCune J, Ruiz-Irastorza G, Sanchez-Guerrero J, Schneider M, Urowitz M, Bertsias G, Hoyer BF, Leuchten N, Tani C, Tedeschi SK, Touma Z, Schmajuk G, Anic B, Assan F, Chan TM, Clarke AE, Crow MK, Czirjak L, Doria A, Graninger W, Halda-Kiss B, Hasni S, Izmirly PM, Jung M, Kumánovics G, Mariette X, Padjen I, Pego-Reigosa JM, Romero-Diaz J, Rúa-Figueroa Fernandez I, Seror R, Stummvoll GH, Tanaka Y, Tektonidou MG, Vasconcelos C, Vital EM, Wallace DJ, Yavuz S, Meroni PL, Fritzler MJ, Naden R, Dörner T, Johnson SR. 2019 European League Against Rheumatism/American College of Rheumatology Classification Criteria for Systemic Lupus Erythematosus. Ann Rheum Dis & Arthritis Rheumatol, 2019
• Tönnies T, Imperatore G, Hoyer A, Saydah SH, D’Agostino RB Jr., Divers J, Isom S, Dabelea D, Lawrence JM, Mayer-Davis EJ, Pihoker C, Dolan L, Brinks R. Estimating Prevalence of Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes Using Incidence Rates: the SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth Study, Ann Epi, 2019
• Tönnies T, Hoyer A, Brinks R. Secular TRends in DiabEtes in India (STRiDE–I): Change in Prevalence in 10 Years Among Urban and Rural Populations in Tamil Nadu. Diab Care 42:476–485, 2019
• Jacobs E, Brinks R, Tönnies T, Rathmann W, Kuss O, Hoyer A. Age at Diagnosis of Type 2 Diabetes in Germany: A Nationwide Analysis Based on Claims Data from 69 Million People in Germany, Diab Med, 2019
• Brinks R, Tönnies T, Hoyer A. New ways of estimating excess mortality of chronic diseases from aggregated data: Insights from the illness-death model, BMC Public Health, 2019
• Bleck D, Ma L, Erdene-Bymbadoo L, Brinks R, Schneider M, Tian L, Pongratz G. Introduction and validation of a new semi-automated method to determine sympathetic fiber density in target tissues. PLoS One 29, 14(5), 2019
• Tönnies T, Hoyer A, Brinks R. Mortalität bei Typ-2-Diabetes in Deutschland, Diabetologe 3, 2019
• Tönnies T, Hoyer A, Brinks R. Trends in incidence of diabetes in Jordan between 1994 and 2017, Diabet Med, 2019
• Vordenbäumen S, Brinks R, Richter JG, Albrecht K, Schneider M. Clinical characteristics of patients with alpha-galactosidase A gene variants in a German multicentre cohort of early undifferentiated arthritis. Ann Rheum Dis, 2019
• Sewerin P, Schleich C, Brinks R, Müller-Lutz A, Fichter F, Eichner M, Schneider M, Ostendorf B, Vordenbäumen S. Synovial perfusion assessed by dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI is associated to treatment response, remission, and cartilage quality in rheumatoid arthritis. J Rheumatol, 2019
• Tönnies T, Röckl S, Hoyer A, Heidemann C, Baumert J, Du Y, Scheidt-Nave C, Brinks R. Projected number of people with diagnosed Type 2 diabetes in Germany in 2040. Diabet Med, 2019
• Frenken M, Schleich C, Brinks R, Abrar DB, Goertz C, Schneider M, Ostendorf B, Sewerin P. The value of the simplified RAMRIS-5 in early RA patients under methotrexate therapy using high-field MRI. Arthritis Res Ther 21(1):21, 2019
• Sewerin P, Brinks R, Schneider M, Haase I, Vordenbäumen S. Prevalence and incidence of psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis, Ann Rheum Dis 78(2):286-287, 2019

2018

• Vordenbäumen S, Brinks R, Hoyer A, Fischer-Betz R, Pongratz G, Lowin T, Zucht HD, Budde P, Bleck E, Schulz-Knappe P, Schneider M. Comprehensive longitudinal surveillance of the IgG autoantibody repertoire in established systemic lupus erythematosus, Arthritis Rheumatol, 2018
• Brinks R. Illness-Death Model In Chronic Disease Epidemiology: Characteristics Of A Related Differential Equation And An Inverse Problem, Comp Math Meth Med, 2018
• Geiss LS, Bullard KM, Brinks R, Gregg EW. Considerations in Epidemiologic Definitions of Undiagnosed Diabetes, Diab Care, 2018
• Chehab G, Sauer GM, Richter JG, Brinks R, Willers R, Fischer-Betz R, Winkler-Rohlfing B, Schneider M. Medical adherence in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus in Germany: predictors and reasons for non-adherence - a cross-sectional analysis of the LuLa-cohort, Lupus, 2018
• Tönnies T, Hoyer A, Brinks R: Excess mortality for people diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in 2012 – estimates based on claims data from 70 million Germans. Nutrition Metabol Cardiovas Dis, 2018
• Chehab G, Richter JG, Brinks R, Fischer-Betz R, Winkler-Rohlfing B, Schneider M: Vaccination coverage in systemic lupus erythematosus - a cross-sectional analysis of the German long-term study (LuLa cohort). Rheumatology (Oxford), 2018
• Sengewein R, Brinks R, Pongratz G. Success quotas in exercise questions in the discipline of rheumatology in preparation for the written state examination in German universities from 2012 to 2016 : Evaluation of the AMBOSS databank according to professorships in rheumatology with and without freedom of instruction in German universities, Z Rheumatol, 2018
• Sewerin P, Le L, Vordenbäumen S, Schleich C, Sengewein R, Brinks R, Pongratz G, Bleck E, Lesch J, Mansmann U, Schneider M, Ostendorf B: Rheumatoid Arthritis Magnetic Resonance Imaging Score Predicts Therapy Response: Results of the German ArthroMark Cohort, J Rheumatol, 2018
• Hoyer A, Tönies T, Brinks R: Possible trends in incidence of diabetes in Italy, Nutrition Metabol Cardiovas Dis, 2018
• Brinks R, Hoyer A: Illness-death model: statistical perspective and differential equations, Lifetime Data Analysis, 2018
• Geiss LS, Bullard KM, Brinks R, Hoyer A, Gregg E: Trends in type 2 diabetes detection among adults in the USA, 1999–2014, BMJ Open Diabetes Research and Care 6:e000487, 2018
• Sewerin P, Hoyer A, Schneider M, Ostendorf B, Brinks R. Inconsistency between Danish incidence and prevalence data about psoriatic arthritis (PsA). Ann Rheum Dis, 2018

2017

• Röckl S, Brinks R, Baumert J, Paprott R, Du Y, Heidemann Ch, Scheidt-Nave Ch. All-cause mortality in adults with and without type 2 diabetes: findings from the national health monitoring in Germany. BMJ Open Diabetes Research and Care 5:e000451, 2017
• Vordenbäumen S, Böhmer P, Brinks R, Fischer-Betz R, Richter J, Bleck E, Rengers P, Göhler H, Zucht HD, Budde P, Schulz-Knappe P, Schneider M. High diagnostic accuracy of histone H4-IgG autoantibodies in systemic lupus erythematosus. Rheumatology (Oxford). 2017
• Richter JG, Muth T, Li J, Brinks R, Chehab G, Koch T, Siegrist J, Angerer P, Huscher D, Schneider M: Elevated Psychosocial Stress at Work in Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and Rheumatoid Arthritis. J Rheumatol. 2017
• Jacobs E, Hoyer A, Brinks R, Kuss O, Rathmann W: Burden of Mortality Attributable to Diagnosed Diabetes: A Nationwide Analysis Based on Claims Data From 65 Million People in Germany. Diab Care. 2017
• Sewerin P, Hoyer A, Schneider M, Ostendorf B, Brinks R: Important but incomplete data analysis? Ann Rheum Dis, 2017
• Leuchten N, Hoyer A, Brinks R, Schoels M, Schneider M, Smolen J, Johnson SR, Daikh D, Dörner T, Aringer M, Bertsias G. SLE Classification Criteria Steering Committee. Performance of Anti-nuclear Antibodies for Classifying Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: a Systematic Literature Review and Meta-regression of Diagnostic Data, Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken), 2017
• Schmidt C, Bätzing-Feigenbaum J, Bestmann A, Brinks R, Dress J, Goffrier B, Hagen B, Laux G, Pollmanns J, Schröder H, Stahl T, Baumert J, Du Y, Gabrys L, Heidemann C, Paprott R, Scheidt-Nave C, Teti A, Ziese T. Integration of secondary data into national diabetes surveillance: Background, aims and results of the secondary data workshop at the Robert Koch Institute. Bundesgesundheitsblatt Gesundheitsforschung Gesundheitsschutz, 2017
• Sewerin P, Vordenbäumen S, Hoyer A, Brinks R, Buchbender C, Miese F, Schleich C, Klein S, Schneider M, Ostendorf B. Silent progression in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: is DAS28 remission an insufficient goal in RA? Results from the German Remission-plus cohort. BMC Musculoskelet Disord, 2017
• Brinks R, Hoyer A, Rolka DB, Kuss O, Gregg EW: Comparison of surveillance-based metrics for the assessment and monitoring of disease detection: simulation study about type 2 diabetes, BMC Med Res Meth 17:54, 2017
• Hoyer A, Brinks R: Comment on Diabetes incidence and projections from prevalence surveys in Samoa over 1978–2013, Int J Public Health, 2017
• Sewerin P, Vordenbämen S, Brinks R, Ostendorf B: Prospective MRI score to predict negative EULAR response in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) before therapy-escalation to a biological therapy, Ann Rheum Dis, 2017
• Jacobs E, Hoyer A, Brinks R, Icks A, Kuss O, Rathmann W: Healthcare costs of Type 2 diabetes in Germany, Diabet Med, 2017
• Vijayakumar P, Hoyer A, Nelson RG, Brinks R, Pavkov ME: Estimation of chronic kidney disease incidence from prevalence and mortality data in American Indians with type 2 diabetes. PLoS One 12(2):e0171027, 2017
• Weber S, Pongratz G, Schneider M, Brinks R: Need for improvements in reported cost effectiveness of adalimumab in rheumatoid arthritis. Z Rheumatol. 2017 Epub ahead of print
• Kaufmann S, Hoyer A, Brinks R: Global burden of non-communicable diseases - why prevalence is not a comprehensive measure, J Epi Res: 3(1), DOI 10.5430/jer.v3n1p10 2017

2016

• Brinks R, Hoyer A, Fischer-Betz R, Sander O, Richter JG, Chehab G, Schneider M: Age- and sex-specific incidence of systemic lupus erythematosus: an estimate from claims data of 2.3 million persons in the German statutory health insurance 2002, Lupus Med Sci, 2016
• Sewerin P, Klein S, Brinks R, Hoyer A, Schleich C, Miese F, Blaschke S, Edelmann E, Gao I, Georgi J, Kellner H, Keyßer G, Lorenz HM, Müller-Ladner U, Pott HG, Schulze-Koops H, Walther M, Schneider M, Ostendorf B: Remission-Plus - eine Initiative zur Integration moderner Bildgebung in die rheumatologische Versorgung. Akt Rheumatol, 2016
• Vordenbäumen S, Lueking A, Budde P, Zucht HD, Goehler H, Brinks R, Fischer-Betz R, Richter J, Bleck E, Detert J, Langer HE, Sörgel A, Burmester GR, Schulz-Knappe P, Schneider M: Sequential high-content profiling of the IgG-autoantibody repertoire reveals novel antigens in rheumatoid arthritis. Arthritis Res Ther 18(1):235, 2016
• Mucke J, Hoyer A, Brinks R, Bleck E, Pauly T, Schneider M, Vordenbäumen S: Inhomogeneity of immune cell composition in the synovial sublining: linear mixed modelling indicates differences in distribution and spatial decline of CD68+ macrophages in osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis. Arthritis Res Ther 18:170, 2016
• Landwehr S, Brinks R: A comparative study of prevalence-based incidence estimation techniques with application to dementia data in Germany, Stat Med 35(5):768-81, doi 10.1002/sim.6736, 2016
• Brinks R, Hoyer A, Landwehr S: Surveillance of the Incidence of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) with Sparse Resources: A Simulation Study Using Data from a National Diabetes Registry Denmark 1995–2004, PLoS One 11(3): e0152046, 2016
• Tamayo T, Brinks R, Hoyer A, Kuss O, Rathmann W: The prevalence and incidence of diabetes in Germany—an analysis of statutory health insurance data on 65 million individuals from the years 2009 and 2010, Dtsch Arztebl Int, 113(11): 177-82, 2016

2015

• Brinks R, Landwehr S: A new relation between the age-specific prevalence and incidence of a chronic disease and a new way of estimating incidence from prevalence data, Math Med Bio 32(4): 425-35, 2015
• Schleich C, Buchbender C, Sewerin P, Miese F, Aissa J, Brinks R, Schneider M, Antoch G, Ostendorf B: Evaluation of a simplified version of the Rheumatoid Arthritis Magnetic Resonance Imaging Score (RAMRIS) comprising 5 joints (RAMRIS5). Clin Exp Rheumatol 2015
• Brinks R: Response to Van der Gaag et al. A multistate model to project elderly disability in case of limited data, Demographic Research 32 (3), 2015
• Brinks R Landwehr S: Change rates and prevalence of a dichotomous Variable: Simulations and applications, PLoS One 10(3): e0118955, 2015
• Chehab G, Richter J, Sander O, Fischer-Betz R, Ostendorf B, Al-Neyadi T, Vordenbäumen S, Acar H, Brinks R, Schneider M: Validation and evaluation of the German version of the Systemic Lupus Activity Questionnaire (SLAQ). Clin Exp Rheumatol, 2015 Mar 10.
• Brinks R, Hoyer A, Tamayo T, Kowall B, Rathmann W: Years of life lost. Dtsch Arztebl Int. 112(12):211, 2015
• Brinks R, Hoyer A, Kuss O, Rathmann W: Projected effect of increased active travel in german urban regions on the risk of type 2 diabetes. PLoS One 10(4):e0122145, 2015
• Brinks R, Bardenheier BH, Hoyer A, Lin J, Landwehr S, Gregg EW: Development and demonstration of a state model for the estimation of incidence of partly undetected chronic diseases. BMC Med Res Methodol 15:98, 2015

2014

• Brinks R, Landwehr S: Age- and time-dependent model of the prevalence of non-communicable diseases and application to dementia in Germany, Theo Popul Biol 92: 62-8, 2014
• Vordenbäumen S, Bleck E, Brinks R, Schneider M: Assessment of magnetic bead-based automated whole blood RNA-isolation from a validated RNA stabilization reagent (Tempus Blood RNA). J Immunol Methods 406: 148-9, 2014
• Sewerin P, Buchbender C, Vordenbäumen S, Scherer A, Miese F, Brinks R, Wittsack HJ, Klein S, Schneider M, Antoch G, Ostendorf B: Advantages of a combined rheumatoid arthritis magnetic resonance imaging score (RAMRIS) for hand and feet: Does the RAMRIS of the hand alone underestimate disease activity and progression? BMC Musculoskelet Disord. 15 (1): 104, 2014
• Brinks R, Fischer-Betz R, Sander O, Richter J, Chehab G, Schneider M: Age-specific prevalence of diagnosed systemic lupus erythematosus in Germany 2002 and projection to 2030. Lupus 23(13):1407-11, 2014
• Richter JG, Klein-Weigel P, Brinks R, Schneider M, Sander O: [Gender-specific differences in capillaroscopy in healthy persons and patients with inflammatory rheumatic diseases.]. Z Rheumatol, 2014
• Brinks R, Landwehr S, Fischer-Betz R, Schneider M, Giani G: Lexis diagram and illness-death model: simulating populations in chronic disease epidemiology. PLoS One. 2014 12;9(9):e106043

2013

• Waldeyer R, Brinks R, Giani G: Response to Hex et al. Estimating the current and future costs of Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes in the UK, including direct health costs and indirect societal and productivity costs, Diabet Med 30 (4): 502-3, 2013
• Brinks R, Landwehr S, Icks A, Koch M, Giani G: Deriving age-specific incidence from prevalence with an ordinary differential equation, Stat Med 32 (12): 2070-8, 2013
• Fischer-Betz R, Specker C, Brinks R, Aringer M, Schneider M: Low risk of renal flares and negative outcomes in women with lupus nephritis conceiving after switching from mycophenolate mofetil to azathioprine, Rheumatology (Oxford) 52(6): 1070-6, 2013
• Buchbender C, Scherer A, Miese F, Sewerin P, Haferkamp A, Brinks R, Wittsack HJ, Antoch G, Schneider M, Ostendorf B: Patterns of magnetic resonance imaging of the foot in rheumatoid arthritis: which joints are most frequently involved? Rheumatol Int 33 (7): 1731-6, 2013
• Brinks R, Fischer-Betz R, Landwehr S, Schneider M, Giani G: Stochastic differential equation modelling the prevalence of rare chronic diseases with an application to systemic lupus erythematosus, Stat Neer, 67 (2): 202-10, 2013
• Waldeyer R, Brinks R, Giani G, Rathmann W, Icks A: Projection of the burden of type 2 diabetes mellitus in Germany: a demographic modelling approach to estimate the direct medical costs from 2010 to 2040, Diabet Med 30 (8): 999-1008, 2013
• Brinks R, Landwehr S, Waldeyer R: Age of onset in chronic diseases: new method and application to dementia in Germany, Popul Health Metri 11 (1): 6, 2013
• Chehab G, Sander O, Richter J, Acar H, Vordenbäumen S, Brinks R, Schneider M, Fischer-Betz R: Validation and evaluation of the German Brief Index of Lupus Damage (BILD) - a self-reported instrument to record damage in systemic lupus erythematosus, Lupus 22 (10): 1050-5, 2013

2012

• Brinks R, Rathmann W: Monesi et al. Prevalence, incidence and mortality of diagnosed diabetes: evidence from an Italian population-based study, Diabet Med 29 (8): 1085-6, 2012 (IF-2012: 3.241)
• Brinks R, Tamayo T, Kowall B, Rathmann W: Prevalence of Type 2 Diabetes in Germany in 2040: Estimates from an Epidemiological Model, Eur J Epidemiol 27 (10): 791-7, 2012 (IF-2012: 5.118)
• Fischer-Betz R, Chehab G, Sander O, Vordenbäumen S, Voiculescu A, Brinks R, Schneider M: Renal outcome in patients with lupus nephritis using a steroid-free regimen of monthly intravenous cyclophosphamide: a prospective observational study, J Rheumatol 39 (11): 2111-7, 2012 (IF-2012: 3.258)
• Fischer-Betz R, Specker C, Brinks R, Schneider M. Pregnancy outcome in patients with antiphospholipid syndrome after cerebral ischaemic events: an observational study, Lupus 21 (11): 1183-9, 2012 (IF-2012: 2.783)

2011 and before

• Brinks R: A hybrid algorithm for the solution of the inverse problem in fractal interpolation, Fractals 13 (3): 215-26, 2005 (IF-2005: 0.586)
• Brinks R, Buzug TM: Image Reconstruction in PET: The 90th Anniversary of Radon’s Solution, Biomed Tech 52 (6): 361-4, 2007 (IF-2007: 0.593)
• Brinks R: On the convergence of derivatives of B-splines to derivatives of the Gaussian function, Comp App Math 27 (1): 79-92, 2008 (IF-2008: 1.048)
• Klein A, Chernyak C, Brinks R, Genz J, Icks A: Kosteneffektivität der Primärprävention des Typ-2-Diabetes: Ein systematischer Review. Prävent Gesundheitsförderung 6 (3): 102-10, 2011
• Icks A, Chernyak C, Klein A, Brinks R, Genz J, Giani G: Kosteneffektivität der Primärprävention des Typ-2-Diabetes, 7(2): 92-98, 2011 (IF-2011: 0.253)

Patents

• WO 2006/117706: VIRTUAL LESION QUANTIFICATION, 2006-11-09
• WO 2007/026266: NOISE MODEL SELECTION FOR EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY, 2007-03-08
• WO 2007/100955: LOCAL MOTION COMPENSATION BASED ON LIST MODE DATA, 2007-09-07
• WO 2008/011436: METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPROVED TOF PET RECONSTRUCTION, 2008-01-24
• WO 2008/096285: MOTION ESTIMATION IN TREATMENT PLANNING, 2008-08-14
• WO 2008/127368: MOTION COMPENSATION IN QUANTITATIVE DATA ANALYSIS AND THERAPY, 2008-10-23
• WO 2009/013661: MOTION CORRECTION IN NUCLEAR IMAGING, 2009-01-29
• WO 2009/153683: RADIOLOGICAL IMAGING INCORPORATING LOCAL MOTION MONITORING, CORRECTION, AND ASSESSMENT, 2009-12-23
• WO 2010/095062: MODEL-BASED EXTENSION OF FIELD-OF-VIEW IN NUCLEAR IMAGING, 2010-08-26
• WO 2010/095065: FUNCTIONAL IMAGING, 2010-08-26

Book chapters

• Landwehr S, Brinks R, Hoyer A: Age of onset of dementias, in de Girolamo G, McGorry PD, Sartorius N: Age of Onset of Mental Disorders, Springer, 2019
• Brinks R: Systematic Lupus Erythematosus: Frequency and occurrence, in Schneider M: Systematic Lupus Erythematosus (in German), Springer, 2016
• Brinks R, Busch M: Local compensation for respiratory motion in list-mode PET, in Buzug Th: Advances in Medical Engineering, Springer, 2007

Talks

• Brinks R: On the Numerical Detection of Hopf-Bifurcation Points in Ordinary Differential Equations, Presentation, Studierendenkonferenz Deutsche Mathematiker Vereinigung, Aachen, 2001
• Brinks R: Aspekte der iterativen Bildrekonstruktion in der PET, Oberseminar Rhein-Ruhr, Uni Duisburg, 2003
• Brinks R: Wavelet-Techniken bei einem inversen fraktalen Problem, Rhein-Ruhr-Workshop Wuppertal, 2004
• Brinks R: Totales Blackout – Kollaps in der Stromversorgung, Sommer Akademie Math Camp, 2004
• Busch M, Brinks R: Quantification and Error Propagation in PET, Department of Radiology, Univ of Pennsylvania, 2005
• Brinks R: Aspekte der Bildgewinnung in der Positronen-Emissions-Tomographie, Rhein-Ruhr-Workshop Gemen, 2005
• Brinks R, Busch M: Local compensation for respiratory motion in list-mode PET, Remagener Physik Tage, 2007
• Brinks R, Winz O, Fischer A, Gegenmantel E, Krohn Th, Schäfer W: Evaluation of a data-driven estimation method in list-mode PET, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Nuklearmedizin, Leipzig, 2008
• Brinks R, Torres I, Winz O, Krohn T, Gegenmantel E, Fischer A, Olivier P, Khurd P, Schäfer W: Data-driven motion correction method in list-mode PET, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Nuklearmedizin, Leipzig, 2009
• Salomon A, Schulz V, Brinks R, Schweizer B, Goedicke A, Aach T: Iterative generation of attenuation maps in TOF-PET/MR using consistency conditions, J Nucl Med 50 (Suppl 2), p. 2013, 2009
• Brinks R: Evidenzsynthese für zeitdiskrete Markov-Modelle zur Krankheitsprogression, Statistisches Kolloquium der Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Januar 2010
• Brinks R, Landwehr S, Icks A, Giani G: Deriving the incidence of an incurable disease from its prevalence, 55. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Medizinische Informatik, Biometrie und Epidemiologie (GMDS), Mannheim, September 2010
• Brinks R, Chernyak N, Giani G, Icks A: Deriving utilities from descriptive health state measures - a comparative analysis applied to the PISO study, Deutscher Kongress für Psychosomatische Medizin und Psychotherapie, Essen, März 2011.
• Rathmann W, Brinks R: Aktuelle Daten und zukünftige Entwicklung der Diabetesprävalenz in Deutschland. 46. Jahrestagung Deutsche Diabetes-Gesellschaft (eingeladen), Leipzig, Juni 2011.
• Brinks R: On the incidence of type 2 diabetes in Germany. 11th WHO/IDF/EASD Diabetes Seminar, Cambridge, Juli 2011.
• Begun A, Icks A, Brinks R, Waldeyer R, Gandjour A, Giani G, Koch M: Parameter estimation in a six-state model for partially observable data in chronic kidney disease 2nd Conference of the European Network (CEN) meeting of the International Biometric Society, Zürich, September 2011, Abstract Band p 122
• Brinks R, Landwehr S, Icks A, Koch M, Giani G: Relation between incidence, prevalence and mortality in terms of a stochastic differential equation - formulation and application to renal replacement therapy, 2nd Conference of the European Network (CEN) meeting of the International Biometric Society, Zürich, September 2011, Abstract-Band p 137
• Brinks R, Landwehr S, Icks A, Koch M, Giani G: Mittleres Alter bei Krankheitsbeginn und mittlere Dauer einer Erkrankung - Analytische Zusammenhänge und Anwendung auf chronisches Nierenversagen. 56. GMDS Jahrestagung / 6. DGEpi Jahrestagung der Deutsche Gesellschaft für Medizinische Informatik, Biometrie und Epidemiologie, Mainz, September 2011, Abstract-Band p 137
• Brinks R, Landwehr S, Waldeyer R, Giani G, Icks A: On the incidence of type 2 diabetes in Germany, EDEG Swansea 2012
• Brinks R, Fischer-Betz R, Schneider M, Giani G: Schätzung der Inzidenz seltener Erkrankungen aus Prävalenz-Daten: Machbarkeitsstudie am Beispiel des Systemischen Lupus Erythematodes. Abstractband der 57. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Medizinische Informatik, Biometrie und Epidemiologie (GMDS) 2012, 117, Braunschweig
• Waldeyer R, Brinks R, Rathmann W, Giani G, Icks A: Modellierung der direkten medizinischen Krankheitskosten des Typ 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) für Deutschland von 2010 bis 2040, Abstract book p. 82, Regensburg, 2012
• Brinks R: Modelling in noncommunicable diseases, Robert-Koch-Institut Berlin 2013 (invited)
• Brinks R, Landwehr S, Giani G: On deriving incidences from current status data, DAGStat Freiburg, Abstract book p. 48, 2013
• Landwehr S, Brinks R, Giani G: Modelling the prevalence and incidence of rare chronic diseases via stochastic differential equations, DAGStat Freiburg, Abstract book p. 48, 2013
• Brinks R, Landwehr S, Giani G: Raytracing in the Lexis diagram, DAGStat Freiburg, Abstract book p. 78, 2013
• Brinks R, Landwehr S, Rathmann W: Surveillance of diabetes incidence using prevalence data only, EDEG Potsdam, 2013
• Brinks R, Landwehr S, Giani G: Bestimmung der Inzidenz aus Prävalenzdaten in einem kalenderzeit-, alters- und dauerabhängigen Erkrankungsmodell, Abstractband der 58. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Medizinische Informatik, Biometrie und Epidemiologie (GMDS) 2013, Lübeck
• Landwehr S, Brinks R, Giani G: Vergleichsstudie zu Verfahren der prävalenzbasierten Inzidenzschätzung, Abstractband der 58. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Medizinische Informatik, Biometrie und Epidemiologie (GMDS) 2013, Lübeck
• Brinks R: Diabetes Epidemie - Entwicklung in Deutschland dramatischer als erwartet? Medica, BIO.NRW 2013, Düsseldorf (invited)
• Richter J, Brinks R, Muth T, Koch T, Siegrist J, Angerer P, Schneider M: Assoziation des Gesundheitszustandes mit beruflichen Gratifikationskrisen bei Patienten mit Rheumatoider Arthritis und Systemischem Lupus Erythematodes, Annual conference of Deutsches Netzwerk Versorgungsforschung, Berlin, 2013
• Brinks R: Illness-death model revisited: neue Einsichten für die Epidemiologie chronischer Erkrankungen, Humboldt University Berlin, December 2013 (invited)
• Brinks R, Hoyer A, Kuss O: Meta-Analysis of ANA sensitivity in SLE cohorts. Steering Committee Meeting for EULAR-ACR Classification Criteria for SLE at the annual meeting of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR), Boston, 2014 (invited)
• Brinks R: Illness-death model revisited: new insights into the epidemiology of chronic diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Atlanta, November 2014 (invited)
• Brinks R: State model for partly undetected non-communicable diseases (NCDs), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Atlanta, November 2014 (invited)
• Brinks R, Hoyer A, Landwehr S: On the error of incidence estimation from prevalence data, Biometrical Colloquium of the International Biometrical Society (IBS), Dortmund, March 2015
• Brinks R: Illness-death model revisited - new insights driven by partial differential equations, Seminar at the Biostatistics Group, Univ Hasselt, Campus Diepenbeek, March 2015 (invited)
• Brinks R: Illness-death models in diabetes: estimating life expectancy and the impact of interventions, Workshop on Diabetes Epidemiology and Health Economics Modeling, Munich, June 2015 (invited)
• Landwehr S, Hoyer A, Brinks R: Least squares estimation of incidence from prevalence data, European Congress of Epidemiology, Maastricht, June 2015
• Brinks R, Bardenheier BH, Hoyer A, Lin J, Landwehr S, Gregg EW: Development and demonstration of a state model for the estimation of incidence of partly undetected chronic diseases, Annual meeting of the German Epidemiological Association (DGEpi), Potsdam, Oct 2015
• Hoyer A, Brinks R, Kuss O, Rathmann W: Projected Effect of Increased Active Travel in German Urban Regions on Type 2 Diabetes, Annual meeting of the German Epidemiological Association (DGEpi), Potsdam, Oct 2015
• Brinks R, Landwehr S, Hoyer A: Differential mortality explains maximum of age-specific seroprevalence in Hepatitis A infections, Methods-Workshop of the IBS German Section and German Epidemiological Association (DGEpi), Mainz, Nov 2015
• Brinks R, Imperatore G, D’Agostino Jr RB, Hoyer A, Saydah S, Isom S, Landwehr S for the SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth Study: Estimation of the age-specific prevalence of type 1 diabetes from incidence data: a feasibility study based on data from the SEARCH study, Annual meeting of the International Diabetes Epidemiology Group (IDEG), Vancouver, Dec 2015
• Brinks R, Hoyer A, Kuss O: How to assess case-finding in chronic diseases, DAGStat Göttingen, Mar 2016
• Brinks R: Epidemiological applications and extensions of the illness-death model (IDM), University Ulm, Apr 2016 (invited)
• Brinks R, Röckl S, Du Y, Scheidt-Nave C, Heidemann C: Estimation of the incidence of diagnosed diabetes mellitus from consecutive waves of telephone health surveys in Germany: is trend detection feasible? HEC 2016: GMDS, DGEpi, IEA-EEF Annual Meeting, Munich, Aug 2016
• Brinks R, Du Y, Röckl S, Heidemann C, Scheidt-Nave C: Estimation of lifetime with limitations in daily activities: results for persons with and without diabetes from the German GEDA cross-sectional surveys 2009-12 HEC 2016: GMDS, DGEpi, IEA-EEF Annual Meeting, Munich, Aug 2016
• Brinks R, Hoyer A, Rolka D, Kuss O, Gregg EW: Chronic disease surveillance: how to assess case-finding? HEC 2016: GMDS, DGEpi, IEA-EEF Annual Meeting, Munich, Aug 2016
• Brinks R, Kaufmann S, Hoyer A: Berücksichtigung von Kovariablen im Illness-Death-Modell, Methods-Workshop of the IBS German Section and German Epidemiological Association (DGEpi), Berlin, Nov 2016
• Hoyer A, Brinks R: Sequences of prevalence surveys with dependent data–new insights based on spatial statistics, Methods-Workshop of the IBS German Section and German Epidemiological Association (DGEpi), Berlin, Nov 2016
• Brinks R: Epidemiologie mit DaTraV-Daten - Inzidenzschätzung chronischer Erkrankungen am Beispiel des Typ 2 Diabetes, Nationaler Expertenworkshop für die Diabetes Surveillance, Robert-Koch-Institute Berlin, March 2017 (invited)
• Brinks R: Neues zu DaTraV - Erste Ergebnisse sind schon publiziert, AGENS Workshop, Oldenburg, March 2017 (invited)
• Brinks R: Administrative Prävalenz und Kosten des Typ 2 Diabetes bei GKV-Versicherten, TMF Workshop Sekundärdatenanalyse, Berlin, April 2017 (invited)
• Jacobs E, Hoyer A, Brinks R, Kuss O, Rathmann W: Exzess-Todesfälle aufgrund des Typ-2-Diabetes in Deutschland. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Diabetologischen Gesellschaft (DDG) Hamburg, 2017
• Brinks R, Hoyer A: Illness-death model: statistical perspective and differential equations, CEN-ISBS German Section Meeting, Vienna, Sept 2017
• Tönnies T, Röckl, Hoyer A, Heidemann Ch, Scheidt-Nave Ch, Brinks R: Prognostische Hochrechnungen der Fallzahlen von Diabetes mellitus Typ 2 in Deutschland für 2015 bis 2040, DGEpi Annual Meeting, Lübeck, Sept 2017
• Brinks R, Hoyer A: Multi-state models in diabetes epidemiology. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, Nov 2017 (invited)
• Brinks R, Mixed regression models: overview and applications in preclinical imaging. Werner Siemens Imaging Center, Department of Preclinical Imaging and Radiopharmacy, University Tübingen, Feb 2018 (invited)
• Tönnies T, Hoyer A, Brinks R: Projection of future case numbers of diabetes in Germany, Robert-Koch-Institute Berlin, Mar 2018 (invited)
• Haase I, Pongratz G, Sander O, Schneider M, Brinks R: Mortalität bei Rheumatoider Arthritis - Analyse von 60 Mio Versicherten der gesetzlichen Krankenkassen, Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Rheumatologie, Mannheim, Sep 19th, 2018
• Brinks R, Tönnies T, Hoyer A: Relative Sterblichkeit des Typ 2 Diabetes: Ein Bayes-Ansatz für das Illness-Death-Model, Annual Meeting of the German Epidemiological Association, Bremen Sep 26th, 2018
• Tönnies T, Heidemann C, Baumert J, Scheidt-Nave C, Hoyer A, Brinks R: Auswirkung zeitlicher Entwicklungen von Risikofaktoren auf die prognostizierte Anzahl von Menschen mit Typ 2 Diabetes in Deutschland im Jahr 2040, Bremen Sep 26th, 2018
• Aringer M, Brinks R: Validation of New Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Classification Criteria, Annual Meeting of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR), Chicago Oct 24th, 2018
• Brinks R: Multi state modelling in chronic diseases, Berlin Epidemiological Methods Colloquium, Charité Berlin, Nov 7th, 2018 (invited)
• Brinks R: Nutzung von Mehrstadienmodellen in der Epidemiologie chronischer Erkrankungen, Zentralinstitut für die kassenärztliche Versorgung, Berlin Jan, 2019 (invited)
• Filla T, Hoyer A, Tönnies T, Brinks R: Prevalence of chronic diseases: Comparison between an analytical relationship and a micro-simulation, DAGStat Munich Mar 2019
• Brinks R, Hoyer A: Compression of morbidity due to chronic diseases in Germany? Results from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) 2004-2015, DAGStat Munich Mar 2019
• Brinks R, Hoyer A: Simulation of trajectories in the illness-death model for chronic diseases: discrete event simulation and Doob-Gillespie algorithm, Statistical Computing, Reisensburg, Jun 2019
• Willmann A, Tönnies T, Hartung HP, Hoyer A, Brinks R, Albrecht P. Excess mortality of people suffering from multiple sclerosis in Germany, ECTRIMS Stockholm Sep 2019
• Willmann A, Tönnies T, Hartung HP, Hoyer A, Albrecht P, Brinks R. Excess mortality of people suffering from multiple sclerosis in Germany, DGEpi Annual Meeting, Ulm Sep 11, 2019
• Tönnies T, Brinks R, Hoyer A. Lebenszeit ohne Typ 2 Diabetes und verlorene Lebensjahre durch Typ 2 Diabetes in Deutschland im Jahr 2015 und 2040, DGEpi Annual Meeting, Ulm Sep 11, 2019
• Brinks R, Hoyer A: Multistate models for chronic diseases: Epidemiological applications and extensions, DGEpi Annual Meeting, Ulm Sep 13, 2019, (Tutorium)
• Brinks R, Tönnies T, Haase I, Schneider M, Hoyer A. Schätzung der Exzess-mortalität bei chronischen Erkrankungen aus altersspezifischen Prävalenz- und Inzidenzdaten: Fallbeispiel Versorgungsatlas zur rheumatoiden Arthritis (RA) vom Zentralinstitut für die kassenärztliche Versorgung in Deutschland (ZI), DGEpi Annual Meeting, Ulm Sep 11, 2019
• Brinks R: Update on Multistate Models in Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, Nov 14, 2019 (invited)
• Brinks R, Hoyer A: Multistate models for chronic diseases: Epidemiological applications and extensions, Charite Universitätsmedizin, Oct 2020, (Tutorium)
• Brinks R, Küchenhoff H, Timm J, Kurth T, Hoyer A: Epidemiological measures for informing the general public during the SARS-CoV-2-outbreak: simulation study about bias by incomplete case-detection, Herbst-Workshop, University Münster (virtual), Nov 2020
• Brinks R, Tönnies T, Hoyer A: Diagnostic accuracy of claims data from 70 million people in the German statutory health insurance: Type 2 diabetes in men, International Biometric Society German Region (IBS-DR) annual meeting, University Münster (virtual), Mar 2021
• Brinks R, Hoyer A: Schätzung der Exzess-Mortalität bei chronischen Erkrankungen aus altersspezifischen Prävalenz- und Inzidenzdaten: Anwendung eines neuen MCMC-Verfahrens auf Daten des Zi-Versorgungsatlas zum Diabetes, AGENS Methoden-Workshop, University Cologne (virtual), Mar 2021
• Alefelder C, Brinks R: Reduction of multidrug-resistant Pathogens and Clostioides Difficile after Implementation of an individualised Behavior Monitoring System to increase Hand Hygiene Compliance, Internat Conf Prevention Infection Control (ICPIC), Geneva, Sept 2021
• Brinks R: Forschung mit Versichertendaten, DGRh Annual Meeting (virtual), Sept 2021 (invited)
• Brinks R: Diagnostische Genauigkeit aggregierter Prävalenz- und Inzidenzdaten von 70 Millionen gesetzlich Versicherten am Beispiel des Typ-2-Diabetes, AGENS Workshop (virtual), Feb 2022
• Brinks R: Statistical properties of a prevalence estimator for chronic diseases based on a differential equation: Simulation study in the illness-death-model, DAGStat, March 2022
• Brinks R: Mehrstadienmodelle in der Epidemiologie chronischer Erkrankungen, Graduiertenkolleg TU Dortmund (virtual), May 2022 (invited)

Tech notes

• Brinks R: Intersection of Interpolating IFS Attractors, Far East J Math Sci (FJMS) 12, 3, pp. 387-394, 2004
• Brinks R: Bildrekonstruktion in der PET, Seminarberichte aus dem FB Mathematik der Fernuni Hagen, 76, 2005
• Brinks R, Locher F: Aspekte der Numerischen Mathematik in der nuklearmedizinischen Tomographie, Seminarberichte aus dem FB Mathematik der Fernuni Hagen, 76, 2005
• Busch M, Brinks R: Partial Volume Correction in PET, Philips Report, PR-TN 2005/00171, 2005
• Brinks R, Busch M: Error Estimation in PET, Philips Report PR-TN 2005/00174, 2005
• Brinks R, Busch M: Noise Estimation and Bootstrap Method in PET, Philips Report PR-TN 2005/01054, 2005
• Busch M, Brinks R: Local Motion Compensation for List-Mode PET, Philips Report PR-TN 2005/00895, 2005
• Brinks R: Review of Image Formation in Positron-Emission-Tomography (PET), Seminarberichte FB Mathematik der Fernuni Hagen, 78, 2007
• Brinks R, Fischer A, Gegenmantel E, Martin Recuero AB: Evaluation of Local Motion Compensation for List-Mode PET Using First Clinical Data, Philips Report PR-TN 2007/00834, 2007
• Brinks R, Klein A, Chernyak N, Icks A, Giani G: Numerical calculation of insulin sensitivity from frequently sampled intravenous glucose tolerance test, Seminarberichte FB Mathematik Fernuni Hagen, Bd. 83, pp. 61-70, 2010
• Brinks R: Chronische Krankheiten, Kompartment-Modelle und kubische Splines, Seminarberichte FB Mathematik Fernuni Hagen, Bd. 84, pp. 129-41, 2011
• Brinks R: A new method for deriving incidence rates from prevalence data and its application to dementia in Germany, ArXiv-Preprint http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.2720v1, 2011
• Brinks R: Calculation of the mean duration and age of onset of a chronic disease and application to dementia in Germany, ArXiv-Preprint http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.5966v1, 2011
• Brinks R: Zur Dynamik chronischer Krankheiten, Seminarberichte FB Mathematik Fernuni Hagen, Bd. 85, pp. 35-42, 2012
• Brinks R: Ergänzungen zu einem einfachen Erkrankungsmodell, Seminarberichte FB Mathematik Fernuni Hagen, Bd. 85, pp. 79-87, 2012
• Brinks R: A new stochastic differential equation modelling incidence and prevalence with an application to systemic lupus erythematosus in England and Wales in 1995, ArXiv-Preprint http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.5893v1, 2012
• Brinks R: On the age-, time- and migration dependent dynamics of diseases, http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.1371, 2012
• Brinks R: On characteristics of an ordinary differential equation and a related inverse problem in epidemiology, http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.5476, 2012
• Brinks R: Fast Calculation of Calendar Time-, Age- and Duration Dependent Time at Risk in the Lexis Space, http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.0798, 2012
• Brinks R: Simulation of Populations in a Time-, Age- and Duration Dependent Illness-Death Model, ArXiv-Preprint, http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.6899, 2012
• Brinks R: Surveillance of the incidence of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) with prevalence data: Theory and application to diabetes in Denmark, ArXiv-Preprint, http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.1442, 2013
• Brinks R: Partial differential equation about the prevalence of a chronic disease in the presence of duration dependency, ArXiv-Preprint, http://arxiv.org/abs/1308.6367, 2013
• Brinks R: Incidence, recovery and prevalence of infectious diseases: non-parametric disease model and application to influenza in Germany, ArXiv-Preprint, http://arxiv.org/abs/1401.4289, 2014
• Brinks R: Change rates and prevalence of a dichotomous variable: simulations and applications, ArXiv-Preprint, http://arxiv.org/abs/1404.7241, 2014
• Brinks R: On the error of incidence estimation from prevalence data, ArXiv-Preprint, http://arxiv.org/abs/1410.0936, 2014
• Brinks R: State model for partly undetected non-communicable diseases (NCDs), ArXiv-Preprint, http://arxiv.org/abs/1411.2106, 2014
• Brinks R: An identifiability problem in a state model for partly undetected chronic diseases, ArXiv-Preprint, http://arxiv.org/abs/1511.06904, 2015
• Brinks R: How to assess case-finding in chronic diseases: Comparison of different indices, ArXiv-Preprint, http://arxiv.org/abs/1603.06142, 2016
• Brinks R: On Keiding's Equation and its relation to differential equations about prevalence and incidence in chronic disease epidemiology, ArXiv-Preprint, http://arxiv.org/abs/1606.08162, 2016
• Brinks R: New ways of estimating excess mortality of chronic diseases: Insights from the illness-death model, ArXiv-Preprint, http://arxiv.org/abs/1712.09596, 2017
• Brinks R: Morbidity, mortality and the illness-death model, ArXiv-Preprint, https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.10556, 2018
• Brinks R: Estimation of the excess mortality in chronic diseases from prevalence and incidence data, ArXiv-Preprint, https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.04053, 2019
• Brinks R, Hoyer A: Simulation of trajectories in the illness-death model for chronic diseases: discrete event simulation, Doob-Gillespie algorithm and coverage of Wald confidence intervals, medRxiv-Preprint, https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.04.01.20049809, 2020
• Brinks R, Hoyer A: Estimation of the actual disease occurrence based on official case numbers during a COVID outbreak in Germany 2020, ArXiv-Preprint, https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.03408, 2020
• Brinks R, Hoyer A: Numerical considerations about the SIR epidemic model with infection age, ArXiv-preprint, https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.14861, 2020
• Brinks R, Küchenhoff H, Timm J, Kurth T, Hoyer A: Epidemiological measures for informing the general public during the SARS-CoV-2-outbreak: simulation study about bias by incomplete case-detection, medRxiv-Preprint, https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.09.23.20200089, 2020
• Brinks R: Estimation of incidence from aggregated current status data without differential mortality, medRxiv-Preprint, https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.05.28.21258004, 2021
• Brinks R, Tönnies T, Hoyer A: Importance of diagnostic accuracy in big data: False-positive diagnoses of type 2 diabetes in health insurance claims data of 70 million Germans, ArXiv-Preprint, https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.13150, 2022
• Brinks R: Estimation of excess mortality in a chronic condition from current status data with disease duration: simulation study about need for long-term care, ArXiv-Preprint, https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.11073, 2022
• Brinks R: Estimation of age-specific excess mortality of men and women with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in Germany, ArXiv-Preprint, https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.11576, 2023
• Brinks R: Estimation of incidence from aggregated current status data, ArXiv-Preprint, https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.03253, 2023
• Brinks R: Illness-death model with renewal, ArXiv-Preprint, https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.09107, 2023
• Brinks R: Application of the chemical master equation and its analytical solution to the illness-death model, ArXiv-Preprint, https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.07238, 2024

Poster

• Busch M, Brinks R: Local Motion Compensation for List-mode PET, Poster Acad Mol Imag Conference, 2006
• Busch M, Brinks R: Local Motion Compensation for List-mode PET, Poster Life Science Facilities Opening, High Tech Campus Eindhoven, 2006
• Brinks R, Schretter C, Meyer C: Comparison of Maximum-Likelihood List-Mode Reconstruction Algorithms, Poster Med. Imag. Conf, San Diego, 2006
• Grotus N, Reader AJ, Brinks R, Maniawski P, Servois V, Rosenwald J-C, Giraud P and Buvat I: 4D Reconstruction of Respiratory Gated PET Acquisitions, Poster Nuc Sci Symp Med Imag Conf Rec, 2007
• Brinks R, Fischer A, Gegenmantel E, Martin-Recuero AB: Evaluation of a local, data-driven Motion Correction Method in List-mode PET, Poster at XI Turku PET Symposium, 2008
• Chernyak N, Icks A, Klein A, Brinks R, Giani G: Gesundheitsökonomische Aspekte bei Diabetes und Depressivität – eine Übersicht, Zeitschr Allgemeinmed, Sonderausgabe zum 8. Deutschen Kongress für Versorgungsforschung, Heidelberg, 2009
• Landwehr S, Brinks R, Waldeyer R, Icks A, Giani G: Mean duration and mean age of onset of type 2 diabetes in Germany 2010, EDEG Swansea 2012
• Buchbender C, Ostendorf B, Sewerin P, Miese FR, Heusch P, Haferkamp A, Brinks R, Schneider M, Antoch G, Scherer A: Rheumatoid Arthritis Magnetic Resonance Imaging Score (RAMRIS) der Hand versus kombiniertem Hand und Fuß-Score (RAMRIS-HF) für die Beurteilung des Therapieverlaufs von RA-Patienten, Fortschr Röntgenstr 2012, 184 (S01), doi: 10.1055/s-0032-1311152
• Sewerin P, Buchbender C, Scherer A, Miese F, Brinks R, Wittsack HJ, Antoch G, Schneider M, Ostendorf B: Patterns of magnetic resonance imaging of the foot in rheumatoid arthritis: which joints are most frequently involved? European League against Rheumatism annual conf, 2012
• Fischer-Betz R, Sander O, Chehab G, Vordenbäumen S, Richter J, Brinks R, Schneider M: Renal outcome in patients with lupus nephritis treated with intravenous cyclophosphamide without methylprednisolone pulses: a single center prospective observational study, European League against Rheumatism annual conf, 2012
• Brinks R, Fischer-Betz R, Schneider M, Giani G: Schätzung der Inzidenz des Systemischen Lupus Erythematodes (SLE) aus Routinedaten: eine Machbarkeitsstudie. DGRh Abstract Book EV.03, Bochum, 2012
• Richter JG, Muth T, Brinks R, Koch T, Siegrist J, Hoffmann N, Schneider M: Berufliche Gratifikationskrisen bei Patienten mit rheumatoider Arthritis? DGRh Abstract-Book EV.06 und Posterpreis, Bochum, 2012
• Richter JG, Muth T, Brinks R, Koch T, Siegrist J, Hoffmann N, Schneider M: Berufliche Gratifikationskrisen bei Patienten mit systemischen Lupus erythematodes? DGRh Abstract-Book EV.16, Bochum, 2012
• Waldeyer R, Brinks R, Rathmann W, Giani G, Icks A: Modelling the direct medical costs of type 2 diabetes in 2010-2040, EASD Berlin, 2012
• Richter JG, Muth T, Brinks R, Koch T, Siegrist J, Hoffmann N, Angerer P, Schneider M: Job-Related Burden and Effort-Reward Imbalance in Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, ACR Abstract-Book 424, Washington DC, 2012
• Richter JG, Muth T, Brinks R, Koch T, Siegrist J, Schneider M: Gender-specific effort-reward imbalance in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus? European League against Rheumatism annual conference, Madrid, 2013
• Richter JG, Brinks R, Muth T, Koch T, Siegrist J, Schneider M: Self-reported health status and efford reward imbalance in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus. European League against Rheumatism annual conference, Madrid, 2013
• Ochel JA, Fischer-Betz R, Brinks R, Schneider M: Incidence of and risk factors for a first cardiovascular event among German patients with systemic lupus erythematosus. European League against Rheumatism annual conference, Madrid, 2013
• Fischer-Betz R, Specker C, Brinks R, Aringer M, Schneider M: Low risk of renal flares and of negative outcomes in women with lupus nephritis. European League against Rheumatism annual conf, Madrid, 2013
• Brinks R, Fischer-Betz R, Sander O, Schneider M: Prävalenz des diagnostizierten Systemischen Lupus Erythematodes in Deutschland, Abstractband der Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Rheumatologie, Heidelberg, 2013
• Richter JG, Muth T, Brinks R, Koch T, Schneider M: Gender-spezifische berufliche Gratifikationskrisen bei Patienten mit systemischem Lupus erythematodes, Abstractband der Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Rheumatologie, Heidelberg, 2013
• Richter JG, Muth T, Brinks R, Koch T, Schneider M: Gender-spezifische berufliche Gratifikationskrisen bei Patienten mit rheumatoider Arthritis, Abstractband der Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Rheumatologie, Heidelberg, 2013
• Fischer-Betz R, Ochel J, Brinks R, Schneider M: Inzidenz und Risikofaktoren für ein erstes kardiovaskuläres Ereignis in einer deutschen SLE-Kohorte, Abstractband der Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Rheumatologie, Heidelberg, 2013
• Sewerin P, Buchbender C, Vordenbäumen S, Scherer A, Miese F, Brinks R, Wittsack HJ, Antoch G, Schneider M, Ostendorf B: Advantages of a Combined Rheumatoid Arthritis Magnetic Resonance Imaging Score (RAMRIS) For Hand and Feet, Abstract 1954, ACR annual conference, San Diego, 2013
• Richter JG, Brinks R, Muth T, Vidakovic M, Koch T, Angerer P, Schneider M: Association Of Depressive Symptomatology and Life and Job Satisfaction In Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis, Abstract 1009, ACR annual conference, San Diego, 2013
• Richter JG, Muth T, Brinks R, Vidakovic M, Koch T, Angerer P, Schneider M: Association Of Depressive Symptomatology and Life and Job Satisfaction In Patients With Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Abstract 1010, ACR annual conference, San Diego, 2013
• Brinks R, Landwehr S: Illness-Death Modell zur Schätzung altersspezifischer Inzidenzraten chronischer Erkrankungen aus Prävalenzdaten, AGENS Workshop of the German Society of Epidemiology, Hannover 2014
• Sewerin P, Vordenbäumen S, Brinks R, Liedmann A, Ohrndorf S, Backhaus M, Sander O, Kümmel M, Schneider M, Ostendorf B: Is the ultrasound score based on 7 joints (US-7 score) a valid screening tool for inflammatory joint-diseases in a population of volunteers? Results from the Rheuma-Truck cohort, European League against Rheumatism annual conf, Paris, 2014
• Sewerin P, Vordenbäumen S, Brinks R, Liedmann A, Ohrndorf S, Backhaus M, Sander O, Kümmel M, Schneider M, Ostendorf B: Inter-rater reliability of the US-7 score in a population of volunteers: is a post-hoc analysis of still images comparable to the dynamic analysis? Results from the Rheuma-Truck cohort, European League against Rheumatism annual conf, Paris, 2014
• Sewerin P, Buchbender C, Miese F, Vordenbäumen S, Klein S, Brinks R, Antoch G, Schneider M, Ostendorf B: Towards MRI response criteria for rheumatoid arthritis: does the course of magnetic resonance imaging predict Eular response or disease progression? European League against Rheumatism annual conf, Paris, 2014
• Richter J, Brinks R, Muth T, Siegrist J, Koch T, Angerer P, Schneider M: Is the measure of effort-reward imbalance at work valid in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus and rheumatoid arthritis? European League against Rheumatism annual conf, Paris, 2014
• Sewerin P, Vordenbäumen S, Liedmann A, Ohrndorf S, Backhaus M, Brinks R, Sander O, Kümmel M, Schneider M, Ostendorf BC: Arthrosonographie in einer Freiwilligen-Kohorte: Sind arthrotische Veränderungen der Finger- und Fussgelenke ein in der Sonographie unterschätztes Phänomen? 42. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Rheumatologie (DGRh) Düsseldorf, 2014
• Sewerin P, Vordenbäumen S, Liedmann A, Ohrndorf S, Backhaus M, Brinks R, Sander O, Kümmel M, Schneider M, Ostendorf BC Ist der US-7 Ultraschall-Score ein geeignetes Screening-Instrument für entzündliche Arthritiden in einer Freiwilligen-Kohorte? Ergebnisse der Rheuma-Truck Kohorte. 42. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Rheumatologie (DGRh) Düsseldorf, 2014
• Dimitriou A, Richter J, Brinks R, Schneider M: Assoziation von Erwartungshaltung und Therapieergebnis bei Patienten mit rheumatoider Arthritis (RA) - Zwischenauswertung einer Kohortenstudie. 42. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Rheumatologie (DGRh) Düsseldorf, 2014
• Vordenbäumen S, Lüking A, Theek C, Brinks R, Fischer-Betz R, Richter J, Bleck E, Detert J, Burmester GR, Schulz-Knappe P, Schneider M: Entwicklung und Validierung eines multiplex Autoantikörper-Testsystems für die Diagnostik der rheumatoiden Arthritis: Serologische Diagnostik der seronegativen RA. 42. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Rheumatologie (DGRh) Düsseldorf, 2014
• Richter J, Brinks R, Muth T, Koch T, Siegrist J, Angerer P, Schneider M Validität des Effort-Reward Imbalance-Modell bei Patienten mit systemischem Lupus erythematodes und rheumatoider Arthritis, 42. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Rheumatologie (DGRh), Düsseldorf, 2014
• Sewerin P, Vordenbäumen S, Liedmann A, Ohrndorf S, Backhaus M, Brinks R, Sander O, Kümmel M, Schneider M, Ostendorf BC: Inter-rater Reliabilität des US-7 Ultraschall-Scores in einer Normalpopulation: Ist die post-hoc Analyse von standardisierten Standbildern vergleichbar mit der dynamischen Ultraschalluntersuchung am Patienten? Ergebnisse der Rheuma-Truck Kohorte. 42. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Rheumatologie (DGRh), Düsseldorf, 2014
• Sewerin P, Schleich C, Vordenbäumen S, Miese F, Sengewein R, Brinks R, Schneider M, Ostendorf BC: Zusammenhang zwischen dem Ausmass lokaler entzündlicher Reaktionen und der Knorpelqualität durch dGEMRIC im Hochfeld-MRT bei Patienten mit rheumatoider Arthritis der BMBF-Kohorte ArthroMark. The good joint - bad joint story. 42. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Rheumatologie (DGRh), Düsseldorf, 2014
• Richter J, Brinks R, Muth T, Vidakovic M, Koch T, Angerer P, Schneider M: Assoziation von Lebens- und Arbeitszufriedenheit mit depressiver Symptomatik bei Patienten mit rheumatoider Arthritis. 42. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Rheumatologie (DGRh), Düsseldorf, 2014
• Richter J, Muth T, Brinks R, Vidakovic M, Koch T, Angerer P, Schneider M: Assoziation von Lebens- und Arbeitszufriedenheit mit depressiver Symptomatik bei Patienten mit systemischem Lupus erythematodes. 42. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Rheumatologie (DGRh), Düsseldorf, 2014
• Brinks R, Hoyer A, Tamayo T, Kowall B, Rathmann W: Years of life lost attributable to type 2 diabetes in Germany, Poster 1214, European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) Annual Meeting, Vienna, 2014
• Kloubert I, Chehab G, Richter J, Fischer-Betz R, Brinks R, Schneider M: How Important Is Physical Activity for Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematodes? - Results of LuLa-Study, Arthritis & Rheumatology, 66: S305-S306, Abstract, Annual Meeting of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) 2014
• Richter JG, Brinks R, Muth T, Koch T, Angerer P, Schneider M: Work-Related Behavior and Experiences in Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Arthritis & Rheumatology, 66: S475-6, Abstract, Annual Meeting of the American College of Rheumatology, 2014
• Richter JG, Muth T, Brinks R, Koch T, Angerer P, Schneider M: Work-Related Behavior and Experiences in Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Arthritis & Rheumatology, 66: S466, Abstract, Annual Meeting of the American College of Rheumatology, 2014
• Sewerin P, Schleich C, Buchbender C, Miese F, Brinks R, Schneider M, Antoch G, Ostendorf B: Evaluation of a Simplified Version of the Rheumatoid Arthritis Magnetic Resonance Imaging Score (RAMRIS) Comprising 5 Joints (RAMRIS5), Arthritis & Rheumatology 66: S517, Abstract, Annual Meeting of the American College of Rheumatology, 2014
• Vordenbaumen S, Lueking A, Theek C, Brinks R, Fischer-Betz R, Richter J, Bleck E, Detert J, Burmester G, Schulz-Knappe P, Schneider M: Development and Validation of a Diagnostic Bead-Based Multiplex Autoantibody Assay - Screening for Autoantibodies to Detect Seronegative Rheumatoid Arthritis, Arthritis & Rheumatology 66:S150-1, Abstract, Annual Meeting of the American College of Rheumatology, 2014
• Brinks R, Hoyer A, Rathmann W, Kuss O: Prevalence and incidence of type 2 diabetes in Germany 2009-10, EDEG Annual Meeting, Chantilly, April 2015
• Sewerin P, Schleich C, Müller-Lutz R, Sengewein R, Antoch G, Brinks R, Miese F, Schneider M, Ostendorf B: Glycosaminoglycan chemical exchange saturation transfer (gagcest) of lumbar intervertebral discs in patients with axial s pondyloarthritis: leads inflammation to local gag-lost? EULAR Annual meeting Rome, June 2015
• Sewerin P, Brinks R, Schleich C, Miese F, Vordenbäumen S, Klein S, Antoch G, Schneider M, Ostendorf B: Gazing into the crystal ball? Prospective MRI score to predict negative EULAR-response in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) before therapy-escalation to a biological therapy, EULAR Annual meeting, Rome, June 2015
• Fischer-Betz R, Sander O, Specker C, Brinks R, Schneider M: High risk of flares during pregnancy in women with rheumatoid arthritis who discontinue treatment with TNF-inhibitors at conception, EULAR Annual meeting, Rome, June 2015
• Leuchten N, Brinks R, Hoyer A, Schoels M, Aringer M, Johnson S, Schmajuk G, Daikh D, Dörner T, Bertsias G: Performance of anti-nuclear antibodies (ANA) for classifying systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE): a systematic literature review and meta-regression of diagnostic data, EULAR Annual meeting, Rome, June 2015
• Brinks R: Surveilling the incidence of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) using low resources, European Congress of Epidemiology Maastricht, June 2015
• Brinks R: Review of illness-death models in the epidemiology of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), European Congress of Epidemiology Maastricht, June 2015
• Brinks R, Rosenbauer J, Hoyer A, Tamayo T, Kuss O, Rathmann W: Prevalence and incidence of diagnosed type 1 diabetes in Germany 2009-2010: analysis of claims data from 65 million persons, European Congress of Epidemiology, Maastricht, June 2015
• Fischer-Betz R, Brinks R, Sander O, Specker C, Schneider M: High Risk of Flares during Pregnancy in Women with Rheumatoid Arthritis Who Discontinue Treatment with TNF Inhibitors at Conception, ACR Annual Meeting, 2015
• Leuchten N, Brinks R, Hoyer A, Schoels M, Aringer M, Johnson S, Schmajuk G, Daikh D, Dörner T, Bertsias G: Performance of anti-nuclear antibodies (ANA) for classifying systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE): a systematic literature review and meta-regression of diagnostic data, ACR Annual meeting, 2015
• Pavkov M, Vijayakumar P, Hoyer A, Nelson RG, Brinks R: Demonstration of chronic kidney disease incidence estimation from prevalence and mortality data, Poster at the 29th Annual Conference of the European Diabetic Nephropathy Study Group (EDNSG), Pisa, May 2016
• Chehab G, Richter JG, Brinks R, Fischer-Betz R, Winkler-Rohlfing B, Schneider S: Vaccination in SLE: Coverage and reasons for non-vaccination - results from the LuLa-Study, EULAR Annual meeting, London, June 2016
• Schulz-Knappe P, Budde P, Goehler H, Zucht HD, Schneider M, Vordenbäumen S, Lueking A, Brinks R, Richter J: High-throuput screening discovers novel autoantibodies in autoimmune diseases, EULAR Annual meeting, London, June 2016
• Mucke J, Hoyer A, Brinks R, Bleck E, Pauly T, Schneider M, Vordenbäumen S: Inhomogene Verteilung von Immunzellen im sublining layer der Synovialmembran: Linear gemischtes Modell f&umml;r CD68+ Makrophagen zeigt stark unterschiedliche Zellverteilung in Abhängigkeit von Distanz zum lining layer bei rheumatoider Arthritis und Arthrose, 44. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Rheumatologie (DGRh), Frankfurt am Main, doi: 10.3205/16dgrh171, August 2016
• Sewerin P, Brinks R, Schleich C, Müller-Lutz A, Schneider M, Ostendorf BC: Lokale Inflammation und Knorpelqualität bei RA-Patienten: Ergebnisse der ArthroMark-Kohorte 44. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Rheumatologie (DGRh), Frankfurt am Main, doi: 10.3205/16dgrh029, August 2016
• Sewerin P, Brinks R, Schleich C, Vordenbäumen S, Schneider M, Ostendorf BC: Ein Blick in die Glaskugel: Ist ein prädiktiver MRT-Score in der Lage eine negative EULAR-Response bei RA vor Umstellung auf einen TNF-Blocker vorherzusagen? 44. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Rheumatologie (DGRh), Frankfurt am Main, doi: 10.3205/16dgrh028, August 2016
• Küppers L, Sander O, Specker C, Brinks R, Schneider M, Fischer-Betz R: Effect of pregnancy counselling prior to conception on the outcome of pregnancies in women with systemic lupus erythematosus: a prospective study, 10th European Lupus Meeting, Venice, October 2016
• Chehab G, Sauer GM, Richter JG, Brinks R, Willers R, Fischer-Betz R, Winkler-Rohlfing B, Schneider M: Medical adherence of patients with lupus erythematosus in Germany 2012 – results of the LuLa cohort study, 10th European Lupus Meeting, Venice, October 2016
• Fischer-Betz R, Kueppers L, Brinks R, Sander O, Specker C, Schneider M: Effect of Pregnancy Counseling on the Outcome of Pregnancies in Women with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: A Prospective Observational Study, ACR Annual Meeting, Washington, 2016
• Sewerin P, Vordenbäumen S, Hoyer A, Brinks R, Buchbender C, Schleich C, Kamp S, Antoch G, Schneider M, Ostendorf B: Silent Progression in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis: Is DAS28 Remission an Insufficient Goal in RA? Results from the German Remission-PLUS Cohort, ACR Annual Meeting, Washington, 2016
• Chehab G, Richter JG, Brinks R, Fischer-Betz R, Winkler-Rohlfing B, Schneider M: Health Locus of Control in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus – a Cross-sectional Analysis of the LuLa-cohort in Germany 2013, EULAR Annual meeting, Madrid, 2017
• Sewerin P, Le L, Vordenbäumen S, Schleich C, Sengewein R, Brinks R, Pongratz G, Mansmann U, Schneider M, Ostendorf BC: Rheumatoid Arthritis Magnetic Resonance Imaging Score (RAMRIS) can predict DAS-28 therapy response: Results of the German ArthroMark cohort, EULAR Annual meeting, Madrid, 2017
• Böhmer P, Bleck E, Richter J, Fischer-Betz R, Brinks R, Schulz-Knappe P, Rengers P, Göhler H, Budde P, Schneider M, Vordenbäumen S: Diagnostische Wertigkeit eines kollagenoseassoziierten Autoantikörper-Multiplex Assays bei systemischem Lupus erythematodes, 45. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Rheumatologie (DGRh), Stuttgart, 2017
• Siekierka-Harreis M, Schroedter M, Brinks R, Opgenoorth B, Richter J, Vordenbäumen S, Schneider M, Pongratz G: Characterization of SLE B cells from patients in remission - persistent IL-10 secretory defect, 45. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Rheumatologie (DGRh), Stuttgart, 2017
• Chehab G, Richter J, Fischer-Betz R, Brinks R, Winkler-Rohlfing B, Schneider M: Impfungen bei SLE: Impfraten und Gründe für Nicht-Impfen - Ergebnisse der LuLa-Studie, 45. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Rheumatologie (DGRh), Stuttgart, 2017
• Sewerin P, Le L, Vordenbäumen S, Schleich C, Sengewein R, Brinks R, Pongratz G, Mansmann U, Schneider M, Ostendorf BC: Rheumatoid Arthritis Magnetic Resonance Imaging Score (RAMRIS) can predict DAS-28 therapy response: Results of the German ArthroMark cohort, 45. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Rheumatologie (DGRh), Stuttgart, 2017
• Touma Z, Cervera R, Brinks R, Tani C, Hoyer BF, Costenbader KH, Lorenzoni V, Sebastiani B, Navarra SV, Bonfa F, Ramsey-Goldman R, Tedeschi SK, Doerner Th, Johnson S, Aringer M, Mosca M: Associations Among Classification Criteria Items within Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, ACR Annual Meeting, San Diego, 2017
• Sewerin P, Schneider M, Ostendorf B, Brinks R: Increase in Prevalence of Psoriasis Arthritis over Time: Analysis of Claims Data from 65 Million People in Germany from 2009 to 2012, ACR Annual Meeting, San Diego, 2017
• Giulini M, Acar H, Brinks R, Schneider M, Ostendorf B, Sander O, Sewerin P: Prevalence and Pattern of Hand Osteoarthritis in a Working Population Using Ultrasound, ACR Annual Meeting, San Diego, 2017
• Siekierka-Harreis M, Schroedter M, Brinks R, Opgenoorth B, Richter J, Vordenbäumen S, Schneider M, Pongratz G: Characterization of SLE B cells from patients in remission - Persistent IL-10 secretory defect, Lupus Europe Düsseldorf, 2018
• Brinks R, Chehab G, Fischer-Betz R, Richter J, Willers R, Winkler-Rohlfing B, Schneider M: Association of mental health related quality of life (HRQoL) and subsequent physical functioning in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: Analysis of data from the German LuLa cohort 2002 - 2013, Lupus Europe Düsseldorf, 2018
• Düsing C, Chehab G, Richter J, Acar H, Brinks R, Schneider M: Developing a cause differentiation of fatigue in patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) – a retrospective single centre analysis, Lupus Europe Düsseldorf, 2018
• Pavkov M, Brinks R, Hoyer A, Gregg EW, Bennett PH: Projection of prevalence of diabetes without and with CKD in Pima Indians, Annual meeting of the American Diabetes Association (ADA), Orlando, 2018
• Chehab G, Richter JG, Fischer-Betz J, Brinks R, Winkler-Rohlfing B, Schneider M: Participation in systemic lupus erythematosus–a cross-sectional analysis of the LuLa-cohort in Germany 2015, Annual Meeting EULAR, Amsterdam, 2018
• Aringer M, Costenbader KH, Brinks R, Boumpas D, Daikh D, Jayne D (...), Johnson S: Validation of new systemic lupus erythematosus classification criteria, Annual Meeting EULAR, Amsterdam, 2018
• Sewerin P, Haase I, Schneider M, Ostendorf B, Brinks R: Incidence of psoriatic arthritis in Germany: analysis of claims data from 65 million people from 2009 to 2012, Annual Meeting EULAR, Amsterdam, 2018
• Mucke J, Chehab G, Fischer-Betz R, Richter J, Winkler-Rohlfing, Schneider M, Brinks R: Association of vitality and subsequent physical functioning in systemic lupus erythematosus: analysis of data from the german lula cohort 2002–2013, Annual Meeting EULAR, Amsterdam, 2018
• Sengewein R, Brinks R, Pongratz G: Effect of university structure on medical students’ knowledge during exam preparation, Annual Meeting EULAR, Amsterdam, 2018
• Mucke J, Brinks R, Dimitriou A, Richter J, Schneider M: Treatment expectations influence both subjective and objective outcome parameters in patients with rheumatoid arthritis-a prospective cohort study, Annual Meeting EULAR, Amsterdam, 2018
• Haase I, Pongratz G, Sander O, Schneider M, Brinks R: Mortality of patients with diagnosed rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in Germany 2012: analysis of claims data from 60 million people, Annual Meeting EULAR, Amsterdam, 2018
• Sewerin P, Abrar DB, Brinks R, Vordenbäumen S, Lautwein A, Schneider M, Ostendorf B, Schleich C: sPsAMRIS: a time and resource saving alternative for detection and monitoring of disease-related joint changes? Annual Meeting EULAR, Madrid, 2019
• Brinks R, Hoyer A, Tönnies T, Segmüller T. Prognose der Anzahlen Pflegebedürftiger bis 2040: Hochrechnung mittels der amtlichen Bevölkerungsvorausberechnung und der Pflegequote der Gesundheitsberichterstattung des Bundes (GBE-Bund), Dreiländertagung Hochschule für Gesundheit, Bochum 2019
• Sewerin P, Abrar DB, McGonagle D, Frenken M, Ratke KL, Vordenbämen S, Brinks R, Schneider M, Ostendorf B, Schleich C. High-resolution MRI Assessment of Flexor Tendon Pulleys in Psoriatic Arthritis for Disease Monitoring and Differentiation from Rheumatoid Arthritis Using a 16-channel Hand Coil, ACR Annual Meeting, Atlanta 2019
• Sewerin P, Frenken M, Brinks R, Schleich C, Abrar DB, Vordenbäumen S, Sengewein R, Richter JG, Schneider M, Ostendorf B. Delayed Gadolinium-enhanced MR Imaging of Cartilage – A Pilot Study to Measure the Effect of Adalimumab Plus MTX versus Placebo Plus MTX on Cartilage in Early RA Patients (CAR-ERA-Study), ACR Annual Meeting, Atlanta 2019
• Aringer M, Brinks R, Costenbader K, Daikh D, (...), Johnson S. Performance of the EULAR/ACR 2019 Classification Criteria for Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in Men, Diverse Ethnicities, and Early Disease. ACR Annual Meeting, Atlanta 2019
• Duesing C, Chehab G, Richter JG, Sander O, Fischer-Betz R, Ostendorf B, Acar H, Brinks R, Schneider M. Potentially Reversible Associations with Fatigue in SLE Patients – Results from a Single-centre Study. ACR Annual Meeting, Atlanta 2019
• Haase I, Susanna Späthling-Mestekemper S, Brinks R, Schneider M, Fischer-Betz R. Pregnancy in Rheumatoid Arthritis: Continue, Reduce or Stop TNF Inhibitors? A Prospective Observational Study. ACR Annual Meeting, Atlanta 2019

Thesis

• On the Numerical Detection of Hopf-Bifurcation Points in Ordinary Differential Equations, Diploma thesis, Fernuni Hagen, 2001
• An Inverse Problem in Interpolatory Iterated Functions Systems with Special Respect to Wavelets, Dissertation, Fernuni Hagen, 2004
• Measuring utilities in medical interventions – a critical analysis applied to the PISO study, Master thesis, TU Kaiserslautern and Private University of Witten / Herdecke, 2010
• Association of depression and physical functioning in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: analysis of German cohort data, Thesis for the Master of Science in Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), 2016
• Multistate models in the epidemiology of chronic diseases, Habilitation, Medical Faculty of the University Düsseldorf, 2017

Public understanding of science

• Kurth T, Brinks R: Schlecht vorbereitet in die Pandemie, Spektrum der Wissenschaft 6: 38-45, 2021
• Brinks R, Klein M, Berwe M, Weishaupt U: Mit Mathematik vom Himmel auf die Erde, Astronomie + Raumfahrt 6, 2008
• Brinks R: Transit des Kleinplaneten Adonis vor der Sonnenscheibe, VdS J Astro 27, 2008
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• Brinks R: Bedeckungsveränderliche: Ein Projektvorschlag, Astronomie + Raumfahrt: 1, 2003
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