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Akram Pourshams is affiliated with Tehran University of Medical Sciences in Iran with a research focus primarily in medicine. Their body of work includes 115 publications, spanning several specialized fields including oncology, public health, environmental and occupational health, surgery, molecular biology, and epidemiology.

Their research interests cover various main topics, notably:

  • Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research
  • Nutritional Studies and Diet
  • Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection
  • Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Cancer, Lipids, and Metabolism
  • Esophageal Cancer Research and Treatment
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts

Pourshams frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Hossein Poustchi (40 joint publications)
  • Arash Etemadi (28 joint publications)
  • Farin Kamangar (27 joint publications)
  • Paolo Boffetta (26 joint publications)
  • Reza Malekzadeh (26 joint publications)

Their work has been published across various notable journals, with multiple articles in publication venues such as:

  • PLoS ONE (5 publications)
  • Nutrition Journal (4 publications)
  • International Journal of Cancer (4 publications)
  • Archives of Iranian Medicine (3 publications)
  • British Journal of Nutrition (2 publications)

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Akram Pourshams include:

  • The global, regional, and national burden of gastro-oesophageal reflux disease in 195 countries and territories, 1990-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017, 2020, The Lancet. Gastroenterology & Hepatology
  • Opium use and subsequent incidence of cancer: results from the Golestan Cohort Study, 2020, The Lancet Global Health
  • The carcinogenicity of opium consumption: a systematic review and meta-analysis, 2023, European Journal of Epidemiology
  • Carcinogenicity of opium consumption, 2020, The Lancet Oncology
  • Dietary intake of fatty acids and risk of pancreatic cancer: Golestan cohort study, 2021, Nutrition Journal

Best Publications

  • Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    Theo Vos;Theo Vos;Theo Vos;Stephen S. Lim;Cristiana Abbafati;Cristiana Abbafati;Cristiana Abbafati;Kaja M. Abbas;Kaja M. Abbas;Kaja M. Abbas

  • Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, andyears lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematicanalysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    Gbd Disease;Injury Incidence;Lorenzo Monasta

  • Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    Gregory A Roth;Gregory A Roth;Degu Abate;Kalkidan Hassen Abate;Solomon M Abay

  • Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults

    Leandra Abarca-Gómez;Ziad A Abdeen;Zargar Abdul Hamid;Niveen M Abu-Rmeileh

  • Global, regional, and national burden of stroke and its risk factors, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    Valery L Feigin;Benjamin A Stark;Catherine Owens Johnson;Gregory A Roth

  • Global, regional, and national cancer incidence, mortality, years of life lost, years lived with disability, and disability-adjusted life-years for 29 cancer groups, 1990 to 2017

    Christina Fitzmaurice;Degu Abate;Naghmeh Abbasi;Hedayat Abbastabar

  • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 84 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017 : a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    Jeffrey D. Stanaway;Ashkan Afshin;Emmanuela Gakidou;Stephen S. Lim

  • Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) for 333 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    Simon I Hay;Amanuel Alemu Abajobir;Kalkidan Hassen Abate;Cristiana Abbafati

  • Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: a pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants

    Bin Zhou;Rodrigo M Carrillo-Larco;Goodarz Danaei;Leanne M Riley

  • Worldwide trends in blood pressure from 1975 to 2015: a pooled analysis of 1479 population-based measurement studies with 19·1 million participants

    Bin Zhou;James Bentham;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Honor Bixby

  • The global, regional, and national burden of inflammatory bowel disease in 195 countries and territories, 1990-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    Sudabeh Alatab;Sadaf G Sepanlou;Kevin Ikuta;Homayoon Vahedi

  • Global age-sex-specific fertility, mortality, healthy life expectancy (HALE), and population estimates in 204 countries and territories, 1950–2019: a comprehensive demographic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    Haidong Wang;Kaja M. Abbas;Mitra Abbasifard;Mohsen Abbasi-Kangevari

  • The global, regional, and national burden of cirrhosis by cause in 195 countries and territories, 1990-2017 : a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    Sadaf G. Sepanlou;Saeid Safiri;Catherine Bisignano;Kevin S. Ikuta

  • Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality and life expectancy, 1950-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    Daniel Dicker;Grant Nguyen;Degu Abate;Kalkidan Hassen Abate

  • Global, regional, and national burden of suicide mortality 1990 to 2016: systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    Heather M. Orpana;Heather M. Orpana;Laurie B. Marczak;Megha Arora;Nooshin Abbasi

  • Hearing loss prevalence and years lived with disability, 1990–2019: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    Lydia M Haile;Kaloyan Kamenov;Paul Svitil Briant;Aislyn U Orji

  • Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults

    Honor Bixby;James Bentham;Bin Zhou;Mariachiara Di Cesare

  • The global, regional, and national burden of colorectal cancer and its attributable risk factors in 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    Farin Kamangar;Dariush Nasrollahzadeh;Saeid Safiri;Sadaf G Sepanlou

  • Measuring universal health coverage based on an index of effective coverage of health services in 204 countries and territories, 1990-2019 : a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019.

    Rafael Lozano;Nancy Fullman;John Everett Mumford;Megan Knight

  • Multimorbidity: Epidemiology and Risk Factors in the Golestan Cohort Study, Iran: A Cross-Sectional Analysis.

    Batoul Ahmadi;Masoomeh Alimohammadian;Mehdi Yaseri;Azam Majidi

Frequent Co-Authors

Reza Malekzadeh
Reza Malekzadeh Tehran University of Medical Sciences
Farin Kamangar
Farin Kamangar Morgan State University
Farhad Islami
Farhad Islami American Cancer Society
Paolo Boffetta
Paolo Boffetta Stony Brook Medicine
Christian C. Abnet
Christian C. Abnet National Institutes of Health
Sanford M. Dawsey
Sanford M. Dawsey National Institutes of Health
Sadaf G. Sepanlou
Sadaf G. Sepanlou Tehran University of Medical Sciences
Paul Brennan
Paul Brennan International Agency For Research On Cancer
Gholamreza Roshandel
Gholamreza Roshandel Golestan University
Jost B. Jonas
Jost B. Jonas Heidelberg University

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