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Dolores Corella

Dolores Corella

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2025
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Medicine
Spain
2023

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Spain Leader Award

Overview

Dolores Corella is affiliated with the University of Valencia in Spain and specializes primarily in the field of Medicine, with a focus on several subfields including Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Physiology, Molecular Biology, Nutrition and Dietetics, and Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism.

Their research spans multiple key topics such as Nutritional Studies and Diet, Diet and Metabolism Studies, Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet, Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies, Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling, Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment, and Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins.

Corella has contributed to a range of scientific articles, with recent publications including:

  • Remnant Cholesterol, Not LDL Cholesterol, Is Associated With Incident Cardiovascular Disease (2020, Journal of the American College of Cardiology)
  • The Mediterranean diet, plasma metabolome, and cardiovascular disease risk (2020, European Heart Journal)
  • Validity of the energy-restricted Mediterranean Diet Adherence Screener (2021, Clinical Nutrition)
  • Glycolysis/gluconeogenesis- and tricarboxylic acid cycle-related metabolites, Mediterranean diet, and type 2 diabetes (2020, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition)
  • Effect on gut microbiota of a 1-y lifestyle intervention with Mediterranean diet compared with energy-reduced Mediterranean diet and physical activity promotion: PREDIMED-Plus Study (2021, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition)

Corella frequently collaborates with other researchers, notably Jordi Salas-Salvadó, Ramón Estruch, Emilio Ros, Montserrat Fitó, and Miguel Ángel Martínez-González.

Their work is published extensively in several scientific journals, with notable publication venues including:

  • Nutrients
  • American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
  • Current Developments in Nutrition
  • Frontiers in Nutrition
  • Molecular Nutrition & Food Research

Best Publications

  • Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease with a Mediterranean Diet

    Ramón Estruch;Emilio Ros;Jordi Salas-Salvadó;Maria-Isabel Covas

  • Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease with a Mediterranean Diet Supplemented with Extra-Virgin Olive Oil or Nuts

    Miguel A Martínez-González;Emilio Ros;Ramón Estruch

  • Effects of a Mediterranean-Style Diet on Cardiovascular Risk Factors: A Randomized Trial

    Ramon Estruch;Miguel Ángel Martínez-González;Dolores Corella;Jordi Salas-Salvadó

  • Six new loci associated with blood low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol or triglycerides in humans.

    Sekar Kathiresan;Sekar Kathiresan;Olle Melander;Candace Guiducci;Aarti Surti

  • A Short Screener Is Valid for Assessing Mediterranean Diet Adherence among Older Spanish Men and Women

    Helmut Schröder;Montserrat Fitó;Ramón Estruch;Miguel Ángel Martínez-González

  • Reduction in the Incidence of Type 2-Diabetes with the Mediterranean Diet: Results of the PREDIMED-Reus Nutrition Intervention Randomized Trial

    Jordi Salas-Salvadó;Monica Bulló;Nancy Babio;Miguel Ángel Martínez-González

  • A 14-Item Mediterranean Diet Assessment Tool and Obesity Indexes among High-Risk Subjects: The PREDIMED Trial

    Miguel Angel Martínez-González;Miguel Angel Martínez-González;Ana García-Arellano;Ana García-Arellano;Estefanía Toledo;Estefanía Toledo;Jordi Salas-Salvadó

  • Mediterranean Diet and Age-Related Cognitive Decline: A Randomized Clinical Trial

    Cinta Valls-Pedret;Cinta Valls-Pedret;Aleix Sala-Vila;Aleix Sala-Vila;Mercè Serra-Mir;Mercè Serra-Mir;Dolores Corella;Dolores Corella

  • Relative validity of a semi-quantitative food-frequency questionnaire in an elderly Mediterranean population of Spain.

    Joan D. Fernández-Ballart;Josep Lluís Piñol;Itziar Zazpe;Dolores Corella

  • Benefits of the Mediterranean Diet: Insights From the PREDIMED Study

    Miguel A Martínez-González;Miguel A Martínez-González;Jordi Salas-Salvadó;Ramón Estruch;Dolores Corella

  • Cohort Profile: Design and methods of the PREDIMED study

    Miguel Ángel Martínez-González;Dolores Corella;Jordi Salas-Salvadó;Emilio Ros

  • Prevention of Diabetes With Mediterranean Diets: A Subgroup Analysis of a Randomized Trial

    Jordi Salas-Salvadó;Mònica Bulló;Ramón Estruch;Emilio Ros

  • 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

  • Effect of a Mediterranean Diet Supplemented With Nuts on Metabolic Syndrome Status One-Year Results of the PREDIMED Randomized Trial

    Jordi Salas-Salvado ´;Emilio Ros;Montserrat Fito;Ramon Estruch

  • Association of Cholesteryl Ester Transfer Protein–TaqIB Polymorphism With Variations in Lipoprotein Subclasses and Coronary Heart Disease Risk : The Framingham Study

    Jose M. Ordovas;L. Adrienne Cupples;Dolores Corella;James D. Otvos

  • Effect of a traditional Mediterranean diet on lipoprotein oxidation: a randomized controlled trial.

    Montserrat Fitó;Mònica Guxens;Dolores Corella;Guillermo Sáez

  • Mediterranean Diet and Invasive Breast Cancer Risk Among Women at High Cardiovascular Risk in the PREDIMED Trial: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

    Estefanía Toledo;Estefanía Toledo;Jordi Salas-Salvadó;Carolina Donat-Vargas;Carolina Donat-Vargas;Pilar Buil-Cosiales

  • Mediterranean diet and cardiovascular health: Teachings of the PREDIMED study.

    Emilio Ros;Miguel Ángel Martínez-González;Ramón Estruch;Jordi Salas-Salvadó

  • Olive oil intake and risk of cardiovascular disease and mortality in the PREDIMED Study

    Marta Guasch-Ferré;Marta Guasch-Ferré;Frank B Hu;Miguel A Martínez-González;Miguel A Martínez-González;Montserrat Fitó

  • Effect of a Traditional Mediterranean Diet on Lipoprotein Oxidation

    Montserrat Fito;Mònica Guxens;Dolores Corella;Carmen Cabezas

Frequent Co-Authors

Ramón Estruch
Ramón Estruch University of Barcelona
Miguel A. Martínez-González
Miguel A. Martínez-González University of Navarra
Emilio Ros
Emilio Ros University of Barcelona
Jordi Salas-Salvadó
Jordi Salas-Salvadó Rovira i Virgili University
Lluis Serra-Majem
Lluis Serra-Majem Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Xavier Pintó
Xavier Pintó Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Enrique Gómez-Gracia
Enrique Gómez-Gracia University of Malaga
Jose M. Ordovas
Jose M. Ordovas Tufts University
Miquel Fiol
Miquel Fiol Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Montserrat Fitó
Montserrat Fitó Institut Hospital del Mar d'Investigacions Mèdiques

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