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D-Index
149
Citations
125683
World Ranking
1173
National Ranking
43

Daan Kromhout 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 Daan Kromhout sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 654 publications — 77th percentile

77% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Daan Kromhout 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 Daan Kromhout sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 217+

This scientist: 149 D-Index — 94th percentile

94% 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 Netherlands Leader Award

Overview

Daan Kromhout is a researcher affiliated with the University Medical Center Groningen in the Netherlands. Their academic work primarily spans the field of Medicine with a focus on cardiology, public health, nutrition, physiology, and endocrinology.

Their research is concentrated on diverse topics including nutritional studies and diet, obesity, physical activity, cardiac and mental health, diabetes and cardiovascular risks, blood pressure and hypertension, as well as fatty acid and lipoprotein research.

Kromhout's recent publications reflect this broad spectrum of interests and include the following notable papers:

  • Association Between Depressive Symptoms and Incident Cardiovascular Diseases, 2020, JAMA
  • Life expectancy associated with different ages at diagnosis of type 2 diabetes in high-income countries: 23 million person-years of observation, 2023, The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology
  • Repeated measurements of blood pressure and cholesterol improves cardiovascular disease risk prediction: an individual-participant-data meta-analysis, 2021, ANU Open Research (Australian National University)
  • The Mediterranean diet from past to future: Key concepts from the second "Ancel Keys" International Seminar, 2021, Nutrition Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases
  • Associations of Total Legume, Pulse, and Soy Consumption with Incident Type 2 Diabetes: Federated Meta-Analysis of 27 Studies from Diverse World Regions, 2020, Journal of Nutrition

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Kromhout include Lisa Pennells, Peter Willeit, Paul J. Nietert, Angela Wood, and John Danesh. Each of these collaborators has co-authored five papers with Kromhout.

Their work has been published most often in venues such as UNC Libraries, European Heart Journal, JAMA, The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, and ANU Open Research.

The subfields of Kromhout's research include Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Nutrition and Dietetics, Physiology, and Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism. These showcase a multidisciplinary approach to understanding complex health issues related to cardiovascular and metabolic diseases.

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

  • Dietary antioxidant flavonoids and risk of coronary heart disease: the Zutphen Elderly Study.

    M.G.L. Hertog;E.J.M. Feskens;P.C.H. Hollman;M.B. Katan

  • 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

  • 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

  • How should we define health

    M. Huber;J.A. Knottnerus;L. Green;H.E. van der Horst

  • The inverse relation between fish consumption and 20-year mortality from coronary heart disease.

    D Kromhout;E B Bosschieter;C de Lezenne Coulander

  • Homocysteine and risk of ischemic heart disease and stroke: A meta-analysis

    R. Clarke;R. Collins;S. Lewington;A. Donald

  • Flavonoid intake and long-term risk of coronary heart disease and cancer in the seven countries study.

    Michaël G. L. Hertog;Daan Kromhout;Christ Aravanis;Henry Blackburn

  • 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 diet and 15-year death rate in the seven countries study.

    Keys A;Menotti A;Karvonen Mj;Aravanis C

  • Mediterranean Diet, Lifestyle Factors, and 10-Year Mortality in Elderly European Men and Women: The HALE Project

    Kim T. B. Knoops;Lisette C. P. G. M. de Groot;Daan Kromhout;Anne-Elisabeth Perrin

  • Intake of potentially anticarcinogenic flavonoids and their determinants in adults in the Netherlands

    Michaël G. L. Hertog;Peter C. H. Hollman;Martijn B. Katan;Daan Kromhout

  • 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.

  • Reproducibility and relative validity of the short questionnaire to assess health-enhancing physical activity

    G.C.W. Wendel-Vos;A.J. Schuit;W.H.M. Saris;D. Kromhout

  • Glucose tolerance and cardiovascular mortality - Comparison of fasting and 2-hour diagnostic criteria

    K. Borch-Johnsen;A. Neil;B. Balkau;S. Larsen

  • A century of trends in adult human height

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

  • Dietary Flavonoids, Antioxidant Vitamins, and Incidence of Stroke: The Zutphen Study

    Sirving O. Keli;Michael G. L. Hertog;Edith J. M. Feskens;Daan Kromhout

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

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

  • Serum total cholesterol and long-term coronary heart disease mortality in different cultures. Twenty-five-year follow-up of the seven countries study

    W M Verschuren;D R Jacobs;B P Bloemberg;D Kromhout

Frequent Co-Authors

Johanna M. Geleijnse
Johanna M. Geleijnse Wageningen University & Research
Alessandro Menotti
Alessandro Menotti University of Minnesota
Edith J. M. Feskens
Edith J. M. Feskens Wageningen University & Research
Aulikki Nissinen
Aulikki Nissinen National Institutes of Health
Simona Giampaoli
Simona Giampaoli Istituto Superiore di Sanità
David R. Jacobs
David R. Jacobs University of Minnesota
Erik J. Giltay
Erik J. Giltay Leiden University Medical Center
Hanna Tolonen
Hanna Tolonen Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
Mark Woodward
Mark Woodward Imperial College London
Hermann Brenner
Hermann Brenner German Cancer Research Center

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