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Demosthenes B. Panagiotakos

Demosthenes B. Panagiotakos

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Medicine
Greece
2026

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Medicine

D-Index
120
Citations
63058
World Ranking
3702
National Ranking
7

Demosthenes B. Panagiotakos 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 Demosthenes B. Panagiotakos sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 1,234 publications — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Demosthenes B. Panagiotakos 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 Demosthenes B. Panagiotakos sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 217+

This scientist: 120 D-Index — 82nd percentile

82% 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

  • 2026 - Research.com Medicine in Greece Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Medicine in Greece Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Greece Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Medicine in Greece Leader Award

Overview

Demosthenes B. Panagiotakos is affiliated with Harokopio University in Greece and has contributed extensively to the field of Medicine, with a focus on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Physiology, General Health Professions, and Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism.

Their research addresses several main topics, including:

  • Nutritional Studies and Diet
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Diet and metabolism studies
  • Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Cardiovascular Health and Risk Factors
  • Cardiac Health and Mental Health

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

  • Global Effect of Modifiable Risk Factors on Cardiovascular Disease and Mortality, 2023, New England Journal of Medicine
  • Real-world data: a brief review of the methods, applications, challenges and opportunities, 2022, BMC Medical Research Methodology
  • The burden of disease in Saudi Arabia 1990-2017: results from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017, 2020, The Lancet Planetary Health
  • The impact of physical activity on healthy ageing trajectories: evidence from eight cohort studies, 2020, International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity
  • Education and wealth inequalities in healthy ageing in eight harmonised cohorts in the ATHLOS consortium: a population-based study, 2020, The Lancet Public Health

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Panagiotakos are:

  • Christina Chrysohoou (101 co-authored works)
  • Matina Kouvari (57 co-authored works)
  • Evangelos Liberopoulos (52 co-authored works)
  • Christos Pitsavos (51 co-authored works)
  • Fotios Barkas (48 co-authored works)

Panagiotakos commonly publishes in the following venues:

  • Nutrients (24 publications)
  • Journal of Atherosclerosis Prevention and Treatment (19 publications)
  • Atherosclerosis (17 publications)
  • Children (15 publications)
  • Hellenic Journal of Cardiology (12 publications)

Best Publications

  • The Effect of Mediterranean Diet on Metabolic Syndrome and its Components: A Meta-Analysis of 50 Studies and 534,906 Individuals

    Christina-Maria Kastorini;Haralampos J. Milionis;Katherine Esposito;Dario Giugliano

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

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

  • Dietary patterns: A Mediterranean diet score and its relation to clinical and biological markers of cardiovascular disease risk

    Demosthenes B. Panagiotakos;Christos Pitsavos;Christodoulos Stefanadis

  • Interleukin-6 receptor pathways in coronary heart disease: a collaborative meta-analysis of 82 studies

    Nadeem Sarwar;Adam S. Butterworth;Daniel F. Freitag;John Gregson

  • Risk thresholds for alcohol consumption: combined analysis of individual-participant data for 599 912 current drinkers in 83 prospective studies

    Angela M. Wood;Stephen Kaptoge;Adam S. Butterworth;Peter Willeit

  • Adherence to the Mediterranean diet attenuates inflammation and coagulation process in healthy adults: The ATTICA Study.

    Christina Chrysohoou;Demosthenes B Panagiotakos;Christos Pitsavos;Undurti N Das

  • SCORE2 risk prediction algorithms: new models to estimate 10-year risk of cardiovascular disease in Europe

    Steven Hageman;Lisa Pennells

  • Mediterranean diet, stroke, cognitive impairment, and depression: A meta‐analysis

    Theodora Psaltopoulou;Theodoros N. Sergentanis;Demosthenes B. Panagiotakos;Ioannis N. Sergentanis

  • Adherence to the Mediterranean food pattern predicts the prevalence of hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, diabetes and obesity, among healthy adults; the accuracy of the MedDietScore

    Demosthenes B. Panagiotakos;Christos Pitsavos;Fotini Arvaniti;Christodoulos Stefanadis

  • Lipid-lowering nutraceuticals in clinical practice: position paper from an International Lipid Expert Panel.

    Arrigo F G Cicero;Alessandro Colletti;Gani Bajraktari;Olivier Descamps

  • Cardiovascular disease, chronic kidney disease, and diabetes mortality burden of cardiometabolic risk factors from 1980 to 2010: a comparative risk assessment.

    Goodarz Danaei;Yuan Lu;Gitanjali M. Singh;Emily Carnahan

  • Olive oil and health: summary of the II international conference on olive oil and health consensus report, Jaén and Córdoba (Spain) 2008.

    J. López-Miranda;F. Pérez-Jiménez;E. Ros;R. De Caterina

  • Vascular Factors and Risk of Dementia: Design of the Three-City Study and Baseline Characteristics of the Study Population

    Marilyn Antoniak;Maura Pugliatti;Richard Hubbard;John Britton

  • The epidemic of obesity in children and adolescents in the world.

    Rena I. Kosti;Demosthenes B. Panagiotakos

  • A journey into a Mediterranean diet and type 2 diabetes: a systematic review with meta-analyses.

    Katherine Esposito;Maria Ida Maiorino;Giuseppe Bellastella;Paolo Chiodini

  • Risk factors for thrombosis and primary thrombosis prevention in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus with or without antiphospholipid antibodies

    Maria G. Tektonidou;Katerina Laskari;Demosthenes B. Panagiotakos;Haralampos M. Moutsopoulos

  • The implication of obesity and central fat on markers of chronic inflammation: The ATTICA study.

    Demosthenes B. Panagiotakos;Christos Pitsavos;Mary Yannakoulia;Christina Chrysohoou

  • Exercise Capacity and Mortality in Older Men A 20-Year Follow-Up Study

    Peter Kokkinos;Jonathan Myers;Charles Faselis;Demosthenes B. Panagiotakos

  • Association between prehypertension status and inflammatory markers related to atherosclerotic disease: The ATTICA Study

    Christina Chrysohoou;Christos Pitsavos;Demosthenes B. Panagiotakos;Demosthenes B. Panagiotakos;John Skoumas

  • Mediterranean diet and weight loss: meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.

    Katherine Esposito;Christina-Maria Kastorini;Demosthenes B. Panagiotakos;Dario Giugliano

Frequent Co-Authors

Christos Pitsavos
Christos Pitsavos National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Christodoulos Stefanadis
Christodoulos Stefanadis National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Pavlos Toutouzas
Pavlos Toutouzas National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Josep Maria Haro
Josep Maria Haro University of Barcelona
José Luis Ayuso-Mateos
José Luis Ayuso-Mateos Autonomous University of Madrid
Giuseppe Valacchi
Giuseppe Valacchi North Carolina State University
Martin Bobak
Martin Bobak University College London
Somnath Chatterji
Somnath Chatterji World Health Organization
Sergei Scherbov
Sergei Scherbov International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Dario Giugliano
Dario Giugliano University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli"

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