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Bengt Vessby

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Medicine
Sweden
2023

D-Index & Metrics

Medicine

D-Index
109
Citations
34486
World Ranking
5840
National Ranking
125

Bengt Vessby 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 Bengt Vessby sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 373 publications — 33rd percentile

33% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,796 publications or more.

Bengt Vessby 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 Bengt Vessby sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 217+

This scientist: 109 D-Index — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 217 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Sweden Leader Award

Overview

Bengt Vessby is a researcher affiliated with Uppsala University in Sweden. Their work primarily addresses topics related to fatty acid research, diet, and metabolism, as well as nutritional studies and diet.

Their main fields of study include Medicine and Nursing, with more specific subfields in Nutrition and Dietetics, Physiology, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

Recent research contributions include a paper titled Fatty acid composition of cholesterol esters reflects dietary fat intake after dietary interventions in a multinational population, published in 2023 in the Journal of Clinical Lipidology.

  • Fatty Acid Research and Health
  • Diet and metabolism studies
  • Nutritional Studies and Diet

  • Medicine
  • Nursing

  • Nutrition and Dietetics
  • Physiology
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

  • Fatty acid composition of cholesterol esters reflects dietary fat intake after dietary interventions in a multinational population (2023, Journal of Clinical Lipidology)

  • Dominic Salamone
  • Giovanni Annuzzi
  • Angela A. Rivellese
  • Lutgarda Bozzetto
  • Giuseppina Costabile

  • Journal of clinical lipidology

Best Publications

  • Substituting dietary saturated for monounsaturated fat impairs insulin sensitivity in healthy men and women: The KANWU Study.

    Bengt Vessby;Matti Uusitupa;Kjeld Hermansen;Gabriele Riccardi

  • Omega-3 fatty acid treatment in 174 patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer disease: OmegAD study: a randomized double-blind trial.

    Yvonne Freund-Levi;Maria Eriksdotter-Jönhagen;Tommy Cederholm;Hans Basun

  • Treatment With Dietary trans10cis12 Conjugated Linoleic Acid Causes Isomer-Specific Insulin Resistance in Obese Men With the Metabolic Syndrome

    Ulf Risérus;Peter Arner;Kerstin Brismar;Bengt Vessby

  • Evidence-based nutritional approaches to the treatment and prevention of diabetes mellitus

    J.I. Mann;I. De Leeuw;K. Hermansen;B. Karamanos

  • Improved glycemic control and lipid profile and normalized fibrinolytic activity on a low-glycemic index diet in type 2 diabetic patients.

    Anette Jarvi;Brita E Karlstrom;YE Granfeldt;IE Bjorck

  • Serum retinol levels and the risk of fracture.

    Karl Michaëlsson;Hans Lithell;Bengt Vessby;Håkan Melhus

  • Conjugated linoleic acid supplementation in humans--metabolic effects.

    Annika Smedman;Bengt Vessby

  • Fatty acid composition of serum lipids predicts the development of the metabolic syndrome in men

    Eva Warensjö;Ulf Risérus;Bengt Vessby

  • Insulin sensitivity is related to the fatty acid composition of serum lipids and skeletal muscle phospholipids in 70-year-old men.

    B. Vessby;S. Tengblad;H. Lithell

  • Desaturation and Elongation of Fatty Acids and Insulin Action

    B. Vessby;Inga-Britt Gustafsson;S. Tengblad;M. Boberg

  • Randomized controlled trial of cognitive behavioral therapy vs standard treatment to prevent recurrent cardiovascular events in patients with coronary heart disease: Secondary Prevention in Uppsala Primary Health Care project (SUPRIM).

    Mats Gulliksson;Gunilla Burell;Bengt Vessby;Lennart Lundin

  • Conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) reduced abdominal adipose tissue in obese middle-aged men with signs of the metabolic syndrome: a randomised controlled trial

    U Risérus;L Berglund;B Vessby

  • Dietary fat, fatty acid composition in plasma and the metabolic syndrome.

    Bengt Vessby

  • Dietary fat and insulin action in humans

    Bengt Vessby

  • Supplementation with vitamins C and E inhibits the release of interleukin‐6 from contracting human skeletal muscle

    Christian P. Fischer;Natalie J. Hiscock;Milena Penkowa;Samar Basu

  • Supplementation With Conjugated Linoleic Acid Causes Isomer-Dependent Oxidative Stress and Elevated C-Reactive Protein A Potential Link to Fatty Acid-Induced Insulin Resistance

    Ulf Risérus;Samar Basu;Stefan Jovinge;Gunilla Nordin Fredrikson

  • Pentadecanoic acid in serum as a marker for intake of milk fat: relations between intake of milk fat and metabolic risk factors

    Annika Em Smedman;Inga-Britt Gustafsson;Lars Gt Berglund;Bengt Oh Vessby

  • Markers of dietary fat quality and fatty acid desaturation as predictors of total and cardiovascular mortality: a population-based prospective study

    Eva Warensjö;Johan Sundström;Bengt Vessby;Tommy Cederholm

  • Fatty Acid Composition of Adipose Tissue and Serum Lipids Are Valid Biological Markers Of Dairy Fat Intake in Men

    Alicja Wolk;Michael Furuheim;Bengt Vessby

  • Fatty acid composition and estimated desaturase activities are associated with obesity and lifestyle variables in men and women.

    Eva Warensjö;Margareta Öhrvall;Bengt Vessby

Frequent Co-Authors

Hans Lithell
Hans Lithell Uppsala University
Samar Basu
Samar Basu Uppsala University
Lars Lind
Lars Lind Uppsala University
Ulf Risérus
Ulf Risérus Uppsala University
Afaf Kamal-Eldin
Afaf Kamal-Eldin United Arab Emirates University
Johan Ärnlöv
Johan Ärnlöv Karolinska Institute
Tommy Cederholm
Tommy Cederholm Uppsala University
Sverker Ljunghall
Sverker Ljunghall Uppsala University
Anders Hamsten
Anders Hamsten Karolinska Institute
Johan Sundström
Johan Sundström Uppsala University

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