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Aage Tverdal publication distribution in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Medicine in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Aage Tverdal sits on this spectrum.

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Aage Tverdal D-index placement in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Medicine scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Aage Tverdal sits on this spectrum.

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Overview

Aage Tverdal is affiliated with the Norwegian Institute of Public Health in Norway. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with significant contributions in public health, environmental and occupational health, epidemiology, physiology, endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, and cardiology and cardiovascular medicine.

The scientist has contributed to several research topics including liver disease diagnosis and treatment, nutritional studies and diet, smoking behavior and cessation, diabetes, cardiovascular risks and lipoproteins, cancer, lipids and metabolism, obesity, physical activity and diet, as well as blood pressure and hypertension studies.

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Aage Tverdal are:

  • Coffee consumption and mortality from cardiovascular diseases and total mortality: Does the brewing method matter? (2020) published in European Journal of Preventive Cardiology
  • Life expectancy associated with different ages at diagnosis of type 2 diabetes in high-income countries: 23 million person-years of observation (2023) published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology
  • Associations between serum high-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels and cause-specific mortality in a general population of 345,000 men and women aged 20-79 years (2023) published in International Journal of Epidemiology
  • Alcohol Consumption, HDL-Cholesterol and Incidence of Colon and Rectal Cancer: A Prospective Cohort Study Including 250,010 Participants (2021) published in Alcohol and Alcoholism
  • Quantifying the contribution of established risk factors to cardiovascular mortality differences between Russia and Norway (2020) published in Scientific Reports

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Tverdal include Per Magnus, Randi Selmer, Dag S. Thelle, Stephen Kaptoge, and Lisa Pennells.

Their work has been published repeatedly in venues such as the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, International Journal of Epidemiology, Alcohol and Alcoholism, and Scientific Reports.

Best Publications

  • Estimation of ten-year risk of fatal cardiovascular disease in Europe: the SCORE project

    S. Sans;A. Menotti;G. De Backer;D. De Bacquer

  • Homocysteine lowering and cardiovascular events after acute myocardial infarction.

    Kaare Harald Bønaa;Inger Njølstad;Per Magne Ueland;Henrik Schirmer

  • Total plasma homocysteine and cardiovascular risk profile. The Hordaland Homocysteine Study.

    O Nygård;S E Vollset;H Refsum;I Stensvold

  • Health consequences of smoking 1–4 cigarettes per day

    K Bjartveit;A Tverdal

  • The Hordaland Homocysteine Study: A Community-Based Study of Homocysteine, Its Determinants, and Associations with Disease

    Helga Refsum;Helga Refsum;Helga Refsum;Eha Nurk;A. David Smith;Per M. Ueland

  • Cancer Incidence and Mortality After Treatment With Folic Acid and Vitamin B12

    Marta Ebbing;Kaare Harald Bønaa;Ottar Nygård;Egil Arnesen

  • Body Mass Index in Adolescence in Relation to Cause-specific Mortality: A Follow-up of 230,000 Norwegian Adolescents

    Tone Bjørge;Anders Engeland;Anders Engeland;Aage Tverdal;George Davey Smith

  • Tea consumption. relationship to cholesterol, blood pressure, and coronary and total mortality.

    Inger Stensvold;Aage Tverdal;Kari Solvoll;Olav Per Foss

  • Obesity in adolescence and adulthood and the risk of adult mortality.

    Anders Engeland;Tone Bjørge;Aage Tverdal;Anne Johanne Søgaard

  • Risk Factors for Hip Fracture in Middle-aged Norwegian Women and Men

    Haakon E. Meyer;Aage Tverdal;Jan A. Falch

  • Body Mass Index in Adolescence in Relation to Total Mortality: 32-Year Follow-up of 227,000 Norwegian Boys and Girls

    Anders Engeland;Tone Bjørge;Anne Johanne Søgaard;Aage Tverdal

  • Adult height and the risk of cause-specific death and vascular morbidity in 1 million people: individual participant meta-analysis

    David Wormser;Emanuele Di Angelantonio;Stephen Kaptoge;Angela M. Wood

  • Plasma total homocysteine and cardiovascular and noncardiovascular mortality: the Hordaland Homocysteine Study

    Stein Emil Vollset;Helga Refsum;Aage Tverdal;Ottar Nygård

  • Body Mass Index in Relation to Adult Asthma among 135,000 Norwegian Men and Women

    Wenche Nystad;Haakon E. Meyer;Per Nafstad;Aage Tverdal

  • Can vitamin D supplementation reduce the risk of fracture in the elderly? A randomized controlled trial.

    Haakon E. Meyer;Guro B. Smedshaug;Elisabeth Kvaavik;Jan A. Falch

  • Dietary Factors and the Incidence of Hip Fracture in Middle-aged Norwegians A Prospective Study

    Haakon E. Meyer;Jan I. Pedersen;Elin B. LØken;Aage Tverdal

  • Coffee Intake and Mortality from Liver Cirrhosis

    Aage Tverdal;Svetlana Skurtveit

  • Factors associated with mortality after hip fracture.

    H. E. Meyer;A. Tverdal;J. A. Falch;J. I. Pedersen

  • Rapid changes in the prevalence of obesity and known diabetes in an adult Norwegian population. The Nord-Trøndelag Health Surveys: 1984-1986 and 1995-1997.

    K Midthjell;O Krüger;J Holmen;A Tverdal

  • Plasma Total Homocysteine, Pregnancy Complications, and Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes: The Hordaland Homocysteine Study

    Stein Emil Vollset;Helga Refsum;Lorentz M. Irgens;Barbro Mork Emblem

Frequent Co-Authors

Inger Njølstad
Inger Njølstad University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Stein Emil Vollset
Stein Emil Vollset University of Washington
Helga Refsum
Helga Refsum University of Oslo
Dag S. Thelle
Dag S. Thelle University of Oslo
Grethe S. Tell
Grethe S. Tell University of Bergen
Per Magne Ueland
Per Magne Ueland University of Bergen
Peter H. Whincup
Peter H. Whincup St George's, University of London
Torben Jørgensen
Torben Jørgensen University of Copenhagen
Lars Wilhelmsen
Lars Wilhelmsen University of Gothenburg
Uri Goldbourt
Uri Goldbourt Tel Aviv University

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