Safieddine B, Beller J, Sperlich S. Impact of educational expansion on trends of limitations in daily activities in germany. European Journal of Public Health; 2025 Nov; 35, 2. doi:https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckaf161.870

Safieddine B, Geyer S, Grasshoff J, Sperlich S, Epping J, Tetzlaff J, Mond L, Steffens S,  Beller J. Social disparities in early onset type 2 diabetes in the workforce: A vertical-horizontal approach. European Journal of Public Health; 2025 Nov; 35, 2. doi:https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckaf161.1132

Safieddine B, Geyer S, Sperlich S, Grasshoff J, Beller J. A vertical-horizontal approach to examine social inequalities in early onset type 2 diabetes in the German workforce through occupational sector, education and income. Sci Rep. 2025 Mar 26;15(1):10390. doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-95326-x. PMID: 40140545; PMCID: PMC11947208.

Mond L, de Zwaan M, Safieddine B, Kahl KG, Stahmeyer JT, Weissenborn K, Epping J. The effect of acute cardiovascular events on the risk of depression: What groups are vulnerable? Case-control study based on German health claims data. J Affect Disord. 2026;394(Pt B):120649. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2025.120649

Sperlich, S., Safieddine, B., & Beller, J. (2025). Better health, but growing social and health inequalities among young adults in Germany due to educational expansion? A counterfactual mediation analysis. Social Science & Medicine, 385, 118604. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953625009359?via%3Dihub

Sperlich S, Geyer S, Holthausen-Markou S, Park-Simon TW, Safieddine B, Sahiti E, Noeres D. Breast cancer survivors' participation in social activities five years after primary surgery - are there social inequalities? BMC Cancer. 2025;25(1):1829.https://doi.org/10.1186/s12885-025-15297-0

Safieddine, B., Geyer, S., Sperlich, S. et al. Factors associated with health-related quality of life in women with paid work at breast cancer diagnosis: a German repeated cross-sectional study over the first five years after primary surgery. BMC Cancer 25, 98 (2025).  https://doi.org/10.1186/s12885-025-13491-8

Mond L, de Zwaan M, Safieddine B, Kahl KG, Stahmeyer JT, Epping J. Incidence of depression in patients with chronic cardiovascular diseases: Case-control study with German health insurance claims data. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 2025, 191. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychores.2025.112066

Grasshoff, J, Safieddine, B, Sperlich, S, Beller J. (2025). Gender differences in psychosomatic complaints across occupations and time from 2006 to 2018 in Germany: a repeated cross-sectional study. BMC Public Health 25, 409. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-025-21462-8

Safieddine B, Grasshoff J, Sperlich S, Epping J, Geyer S, Beller J. Type 2 diabetes severity in the workforce: An occupational sector analysis using German claims data. PLoS ONE, 2024, 19(9): e0309725. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0309725

Safieddine B, Grasshoff J, Geyer S et al. Type 2 diabetes in the employed population: do rates and trends differ among nine occupational sectors? An analysis using German health insurance claims data. BMC Public Health, 2024, 24:1231. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-024-18705-5

Beller J, Graßhoff J, Safieddine B. Physical working conditions over time: a repeated cross-sectional study in German employees. J Occup Med Toxicol, 2024, 19:24. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12995-024-00423-8

Grasshoff J, Safieddine B, Sperlich S, Beller J. Gender inequalities of psychosomatic complaints at work vary by occupational groups of white- and blue-collar and level of skill: A cross sectional study. PLoS ONE. 2024;19(7):e0303811. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0303811

Beller J, Sperlich S, Epping J, Safieddine B, Hegewald J, Tetzlaff J. Sociodemographic differences in low back pain: which subgroups of workers are most vulnerable? BMC Musculoskelet Disord. 2024;25(1):852. doi:10.1186/s12891-024-07970-5

Safieddine B, Grasshoff J, Geyer S, Sperlich S, Epping J, Beller J (2024). Type 2 diabetes in the employed population: do rates and trends differ among nine occupational sectors? An analysis using German health insurance claims data. BMC Public Health. 2024;24(1):1231. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-024-18705-5

Beller J, Safieddine B, Sperlich S, Tetzlaff J, Geyer S (2024). Socioeconomic differences in limited lung function: a cross-sectional study of middle-aged and older adults in Germany. International Journal for Equity in Health. 2024;23(1):138. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-024-02224-1

Sperlich S, Beller J, Safieddine B, Tetzlaff J, Geyer S (2024). Widening Educational Inequalities in Physical Health Due to the Obesity Trend?-A Mediation Analysis Using the German Socio-Economic Panel Study. International journal of public health. 2024;69:1606932. https://doi.org/10.3389/ijph.2024.1606932

Beller J, Safieddine B, Sperlich S, Tetzlaff J, Geyer S (2024). Time trends in limited lung function among German middle-aged and older adults. Scientific reports. 2024;14(1):5036. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-55624-2

Safieddine B, Trachte F, Sperlich S, Epping J, Lange K, Geyer S (2023). Trends of Antidiabetic and Cardiovascular Diseases Medication Prescriptions in Type 2 Diabetes between 2005 and 2017 - A German Longitudinal Study Based on Claims Data. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2023;20(5):4491. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20054491

Geyer S, Tetzlaff J, Sperlich S, Safieddine B, Epping J, Eberhard S, Stahmeyer J, Beller J (2023). Decreasing COPD-related incidences and hospital admissions in a German health insurance population. Scientific Reports. 2023;13(1):21293. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-48554-y

Sperlich S, Adler F-M, Beller J, Safieddine B, Tetzlaff F, Tetzlaff J., Geyer S (2022) Getting Better or Getting Worse? A Population-Based Study on Trends in Self-Rated Health among Single Mothers in Germany between 1994 and 2018 International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19 (5):2727. doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19052727

Tübbecke F-M, Epping J, Safieddine B, Sperlich S (2022). Development of gender inequality in self-rated health in the life-phase of raising children in Germany from 1994 to 2018 – A decomposition analysis of socioeconomic, psychosocial and family-related influencing factors. SSM - Population Health. 2022;19:101183. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2022.101183

Epping J*, Safieddine B*, Geyer S, Tetzlaff J (2021). Sind Prävalenzen in Survey- und Routinedaten vergleichbar? Herzinfarktprävalenzen in Krankenkassendaten der AOK Niedersachsen und in Daten der Studie zur Gesundheit Erwachsener in Deutschland (DEGS1). Gesundheitswesen, https://doi.org/10.1055/a-1649-7575. *-geteilte Erstautorenschaft

Safieddine B, Sperlich S, Epping J, Lange K, Geyer S (2021). Development of comorbidities in type 2 diabetes between 2005 and 2017 using German claims data. Scientific Reports, 11(1). https://doi.org/ 10.1038/s41598-021-90611-x.

Sperlich S, Beller J, Epping J, Safieddine B, Tetzlaff J, Geyer S (2021). Are Disability Rates among People with Diabetes Increasing in Germany? A Decomposition Analysis of Temporal Change between 2004 and 2015. Journal of Aging and Health, 33(3-4):205-216.https://doi.org/10.1177/0898264320970324

Safieddine B, Sperlich S, Epping J, Lange K, Geyer S (2021). Development of comorbidities in type 2 diabetes between 2005 and 2017 using German claims data. Scientific Reports, 11(1). https://doi.org/ 10.1038/s41598-021-90611-x.

Klar MK, Geyer S, Safieddine B, Tetzlaff F, Tetzlaff J, Sperlich S (2021). Trends in healthy life expectancy between 2002 and 2018 in Germany - Compression or expansion of health-related quality of life (HRQOL)? SSM - Population Health. 2021;13.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2021.100758

Sperlich S, Klar MK, Safieddine B, Tetzlaff F, Tetzlaff J, Geyer S (2021). Life stage-specific trends in educational inequalities in health-related quality of life and self-rated health between 2002 and 2016 in Germany: findings from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (GSOEP). Bmj Open. 2021;11(3). https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-042017

Noeres D, Sperlich S, Röbbel L, Safieddine B, Deuker JU, Hillemanns P, Ismaéel F, Moser A, Noeding K-H, Noesselt T, Pape J, Park-Simon T-W, Peschel S, Seifert W, Siggelkow W, Thoma M, Uleer C, Geyer S (2021). Prädiktoren der Inanspruchnahme und des Beginns einer onkologischen Rehabilitation nach Brustkrebs. Rehabilitation (Stuttg). 2021;60(02):86-94. https://doi.org/10.1055/a-1361-4028

Safieddine B, Sperlich S, Beller J, Lange K, Epping J, Tetzlaff J, Tetzlaff F, Geyer S (2020). Socioeconomic inequalities in type 2 diabetes in employed individuals, nonworking spouses and pensioners. SSM-Population Health. 2020:100596. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckaa165.1044

Beller J, Regidor E, Lostao L, Miething A, Kroger C, Safieddine B, Tetzlaff F, Sperlich S, Geyer S (2020). Decline of depressive symptoms in Europe: differential trends across the lifespan. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. 2021;56(7):1249-62. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-020-01979-6

Safieddine B, Geyer S, Röbbel L, Noeres D (2019). Predictors of Health-Related Quality of Life in Women with Breast Cancer. DRV-Schriften Band 117 (S. 137-139). Berlin: Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund.

Abdulrahim S, Beydoun Z, Safieddine B, Godah M (2016). Social determinants of low birth weight in LMICs: a systematic review of the evidence. Vienna: European Public Health Conference.

Akik C, Safieddine B, Ghattas H, Knai C, Filteau S (2013). The effectiveness of health services interventions to promote and support breastfeeding initiation and exclusivity. FASEB 27 (S. 122-128).