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Denise Petrucci Gigante

Denise Petrucci Gigante

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Social Sciences and Humanities
Brazil
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
63
Citations
15230
World Ranking
1180
National Ranking
11

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Brazil Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Brazil Leader Award

Overview

Denise Petrucci Gigante is affiliated with the Universidade Federal de Pelotas in Brazil. Their research primarily focuses on Medicine, with contributions across multiple subfields including Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health; General Health Professions; Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health; Nutrition and Dietetics; and Obstetrics and Gynecology.

The scientist's main topics of work include:

  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling
  • Indigenous Health and Education
  • Nutritional Studies and Diet
  • Gestational Diabetes Research and Management
  • Child Nutrition and Water Access

Frequent co-authors of Denise Petrucci Gigante comprise:

  • Bernardo Lessa Horta
  • Gicele Costa Mintem
  • Francine Silva dos Santos
  • Isabel Oliveira
  • Gilberto Kac

Most common publication venues for Denise Petrucci Gigante's work include:

  • Clinical Nutrition ESPEN
  • Annals of Human Biology
  • Revista de Nutrição
  • Epidemiologia e Serviços de Saúde
  • Revista de Saúde Pública

Key recent publications by Denise Petrucci Gigante are:

  • Food processing and cardiometabolic risk factors: a systematic review, 2020, Revista de Saúde Pública
  • Violência contra a mulher na vida: estudo entre usuárias da Atenção Primária, 2020, Ciência & Saúde Coletiva
  • Omega-3 supplementation and diabetes: A systematic review and meta-analysis, 2021, Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition
  • Sugar sweetened beverages intake and risk of obesity and cardiometabolic diseases in longitudinal studies: A systematic review and meta-analysis with 1.5 million individuals, 2022, Clinical Nutrition ESPEN
  • Common Mental Disorders and Contemporary Factors: 1982 Birth Cohort, 2020, Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem

Their academic contributions also extend to book publications through Yale University Press, with a series of three titles named Book Madness published in 2022.

Best Publications

  • Physical activity change during adolescence: a systematic review and a pooled analysis

    Samuel C. Dumith;Denise P. Gigante;Marlos R. Domingues;Harold Willis Kohl

  • Association between breastfeeding and intelligence, educational attainment, and income at 30 years of age: a prospective birth cohort study from Brazil

    Cesar G. Victora;Bernardo L. Horta;Christian Loret de Mola;Luciana de Avila Quevedo

  • Prevalência de obesidade em adultos e seus fatores de risco

    Denise P. Gigante;Fernando C. Barros;Cora L.A. Post;Maria T.A. Olinto

  • Maternal height and child growth patterns.

    O. Yaw Addo;Aryeh D. Stein;Caroline H. Fall;Denise P. Gigante

  • Growth patterns in early childhood and final attained stature: data from five birth cohorts from low- and middle-income countries.

    Aryeh D. Stein;Meng Wang;Reynaldo Martorell;Shane A. Norris;Shane A. Norris

  • Prevalência de excesso de peso e obesidade e fatores associados, Brasil, 2006

    Denise Petrucci Gigante;Erly Catarina de Moura;Erly Catarina de Moura;Luciana Monteiro Vasconcelos Sardinha

  • 2007 world population data sheet.

    Kearney Ms;Levine Pb;Jones Le;Tertilt M

  • Nutrition Counseling Increases Weight Gain among Brazilian Children

    Iná Santos;Cesar G. Victora;José Martines;Helen Gonçalves

  • Consumption of ultra-processed foods and their impact on the diet of young adults

    Renata M Bielemann;Renata M Bielemann;Janaína V Santos Motta;Gicele C Minten;Bernardo L Horta

  • Physical activity during life course and bone mass: a systematic review of methods and findings from cohort studies with young adults.

    Renata M Bielemann;Jeovany Martinez-Mesa;Denise Petrucci Gigante

  • Prevalência de hipertensão arterial em adultos e fatores associados: um estudo de base populacional urbana em Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil

    Juvenal Soares Dias da Costa;Juvenal Soares Dias da Costa;Franklin Correa Barcellos;Marcelo Leal Sclowitz;Iândora Krolow Timm Sclowitz

  • Methodological aspects of the 1993 Pelotas (Brazil) birth cohort study

    Cesar Gomes Victora;Cora Luiza Pavin Araújo;Ana Maria Batista Menezes;Pedro Curi Hallal

  • Condutas na prevenção secundária do câncer de mama e fatores associados

    Marcelo Leal Sclowitz;Ana Maria Baptista Menezes;Denise Petrucci Gigante;Sérgio Tessaro

  • Fertility rates and gross national income per capital.

    Sahu D;Kushwah Ss;Liao Sl;Huang T

  • Atenção primária em diabetes no Sul do Brasil: estrutura, processo e resultado

    Maria Cecília F Assunção;Iná da Silva dos Santos;Denise P Gigante

  • [Heavy alcohol consumption and associated factors: a population-based study].

    Juvenal S Dias da Costa;Mariângela F Silveira;Fernando K Gazalle;Sandro S Oliveira

  • Size at Birth, Weight Gain in Infancy and Childhood, and Adult Diabetes Risk in Five Low- or Middle-Income Country Birth Cohorts

    Shane A. Norris;Clive Osmond;Denise Gigante;Christopher W. Kuzawa

  • The Pelotas birth cohort study, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, 1982-2001

    Cesar G. Victora;Fernando C. Barros;Rosângela C. Lima;Dominique P. Behague;Dominique P. Behague

  • Validação do peso e altura referidos para o diagnóstico do estado nutricional em uma população de adultos no Sul do Brasil

    Erika Aparecida da Silveira;Cora Luíza Araújo;Denise Petrucci Gigante;Aluisio J. D. Barros

  • [Intervention levels for abdominal obesity: prevalence and associated factors].

    Maria Teresa Anselmo Olinto;Luis Carlos Nácul;Juvenal Soares Dias-da-Costa;Denise Petrucci Gigante

Frequent Co-Authors

Iná S. Santos
Iná S. Santos Universidade Federal de Pelotas
Aluísio J. D. Barros
Aluísio J. D. Barros Universidade Federal de Pelotas
Maria Teresa Anselmo Olinto
Maria Teresa Anselmo Olinto Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Cora Luiza Araújo
Cora Luiza Araújo Universidade Federal de Pelotas
Linda Richter
Linda Richter University of the Witwatersrand
Alan Stein
Alan Stein University of Oxford
Linda S. Adair
Linda S. Adair University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Joseph Murray
Joseph Murray Universidade Federal de Pelotas
Adrian Sleigh
Adrian Sleigh Australian National University

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