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  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
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Overview

Annika Rosengren is affiliated with Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Sweden and has contributed extensively to the field of medicine, with a primary focus on cardiology and cardiovascular medicine.

Their research covers several subfields, including cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, public health, environmental and occupational health, epidemiology, surgery, and pulmonary and respiratory medicine. Rosengren's work spans numerous topics relating to cardiovascular health and public health, notably:

  • Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Atrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Nutritional Studies and Diet
  • Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors
  • Birth, Development, and Health

The scientist has published research in a variety of scientific journals, with frequent publications in:

  • European Heart Journal
  • European Journal of Preventive Cardiology
  • Scientific Reports
  • ESC Heart Failure
  • Journal of Internal Medicine

Notable recent papers associated with research involving Rosengren include:

  • "Prevalence of Subclinical Coronary Artery Atherosclerosis in the General Population" (2021), published in Circulation
  • "Survival in Children With Congenital Heart Disease: Have We Reached a Peak at 97%?" (2020), published in Journal of the American Heart Association
  • "Variations between women and men in risk factors, treatments, cardiovascular disease incidence, and death in 27 high-income, middle-income, and low-income countries (PURE): a prospective cohort study" (2020), published in The Lancet
  • "Association of the triglyceride glucose index as a measure of insulin resistance with mortality and cardiovascular disease in populations from five continents (PURE study): a prospective cohort study" (2022), published in The Lancet Healthy Longevity
  • "Association of Symptoms of Depression With Cardiovascular Disease and Mortality in Low-, Middle-, and High-Income Countries" (2020), published in JAMA Psychiatry

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Rosengren include:

  • Salim Yusuf
  • Patricio López-Jaramillo
  • Álvaro Avezum
  • Sumathy Rangarajan
  • Karen Yeates

The volume and range of publications demonstrate an extensive engagement with cardiovascular and public health research across diverse populations and geographic contexts. The multidisciplinary focus also extends to epidemiological and environmental health perspectives, often intertwined with clinical cardiology.

Best Publications

  • 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

  • Trends in adult body-mass index in 200 countries from 1975 to 2014: A pooled analysis of 1698 population-based measurement studies with 19.2 million participants

    Mariachiara Di Cesare;Mariachiara Di Cesare;James Bentham;Gretchen A Stevens;Bin Zhou

  • Worldwide trends in diabetes since 1980: a pooled analysis of 751 population-based studies with 4.4 million participants

    Bin Zhou;Yuan Lu;Kaveh Hajifathalian;James Bentham

  • Management of acute myocardial infarction in patients presenting with persistent ST-segment elevation: the Task Force on the Management of ST-Segment Elevation Acute Myocardial Infarction of the European Society of Cardiology.

    Frans Van de Werf;Jeroen Bax;Amadeo Betriu;Carina Blomstrom-Lundqvist

  • European guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice. Third Joint Task Force of European and Other Societies on Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Clinical Practice.

    Guy De Backer;Ettore Ambrosioni;Knut Borch-Johnsen;Carlos Brotons

  • 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

  • Association of psychosocial risk factors with risk of acute myocardial infarction in 11 119 cases and 13 648 controls from 52 countries (the INTERHEART study): case-control study

    Annika Rosengren;Steven Hawken;Stephanie Ôunpuu;Karen Sliwa

  • 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

  • Genetic variants in novel pathways influence blood pressure and cardiovascular disease risk

    Georg B. Ehret;Georg B. Ehret;Georg B. Ehret;Patricia B. Munroe;Kenneth M. Rice;Murielle Bochud

  • Prevalence, Awareness, Treatment, and Control of Hypertension in Rural and Urban Communities in High-, Middle-, and Low-Income Countries

    Clara K. Chow;Clara K. Chow;Koon K. Teo;Sumathy Rangarajan;Shofiqul Islam

  • Global and regional effects of potentially modifiable risk factors associated with acute stroke in 32 countries (INTERSTROKE): a case-control study

    Martin J O'Donnell;Martin J O'Donnell;Siu Lim Chin;Sumathy Rangarajan;Denis Xavier

  • Modifiable risk factors, cardiovascular disease, and mortality in 155 722 individuals from 21 high-income, middle-income, and low-income countries (PURE): a prospective cohort study

    Salim Yusuf;Philip Joseph;Sumathy Rangarajan;Shofiqul Islam

  • Prognostic value of grip strength: findings from the Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiology (PURE) study

    Darryl P Leong;Darryl P Leong;Koon K Teo;Koon K Teo;Sumathy Rangarajan;Patricio Lopez-Jaramillo

  • Plasma fibrinogen level and the risk of major cardiovascular diseases and nonvascular mortality: an individual participant meta-analysis.

    J Danesh;S Lewington;S G Thompson;Lowe Gdo.

  • A century of trends in adult human height

    James Bentham;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Gretchen A. Stevens;Bin Zhou

  • C-Reactive Protein, Fibrinogen, and Cardiovascular Disease Prediction

    Stephen Kaptoge;Emanuele Di Angelantonio;Lisa Pennells;Angela M. Wood

  • Risk factors for myocardial infarction in women and men: insights from the INTERHEART study

    Sonia S. Anand;Sonia S. Anand;Sonia S. Anand;Shofiqul Islam;Shofiqul Islam;Shofiqul Islam;Annika Rosengren;Maria Grazia Franzosi

  • The effect of physical activity on mortality and cardiovascular disease in 130 000 people from 17 high-income, middle-income, and low-income countries: the PURE study

    Scott A Lear;Weihong Hu;Sumathy Rangarajan;Danijela Gasevic

  • Risk Factors, Mortality, and Cardiovascular Outcomes in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.

    Aidin Rawshani;Araz Rawshani;Stefan Franzén;Naveed Sattar

  • Use of secondary prevention drugs for cardiovascular disease in the community in high-income, middle-income, and low-income countries (the PURE Study): a prospective epidemiological survey

    Salim Yusuf;Shofiqul Islam;Clara K Chow;Sumathy Rangarajan

Frequent Co-Authors

Lars Wilhelmsen
Lars Wilhelmsen University of Gothenburg
Koon K. Teo
Koon K. Teo McMaster University
Alvaro Avezum
Alvaro Avezum Population Health Research Institute
Patricio López-Jaramillo
Patricio López-Jaramillo University of Santander
Lauren Lissner
Lauren Lissner University of Gothenburg
Sumathy Rangarajan
Sumathy Rangarajan Population Health Research Institute
Rafael Diaz
Rafael Diaz University of Alberta
Viswanathan Mohan
Viswanathan Mohan Madras Diabetes Research Foundation
Salim Yusuf
Salim Yusuf McMaster University
Rajeev Gupta
Rajeev Gupta Rajasthan University of Health Sciences

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