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2026

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Medicine in Iran Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Medicine in Iran Leader Award

Overview

Fereidoun Azizi is affiliated with Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences in Iran and has contributed extensively to the field of medicine, with a particular focus on endocrinology, diabetes, metabolism, and related public health concerns.

Azizi's research spans several subfields, including:

  • Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
  • Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
  • Epidemiology
  • Physiology

The scientist's work covers main topics such as:

  • Nutritional Studies and Diet
  • Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Thyroid Disorders and Treatments
  • Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Diet, Metabolism, and Disease
  • Diet and metabolism studies

Azizi has published prolifically, often collaborating with frequent co-authors, who include:

  • Parvin Mirmiran
  • Farzad Hadaegh
  • Davood Khalili
  • Atieh Amouzegar
  • Maryam Tohidi

Their research articles appear frequently in journals such as:

  • Scientific Reports
  • BMC Public Health
  • International Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism
  • BMC Endocrine Disorders
  • Research Square (Research Square)

Noteworthy recent publications include:

  • "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" (2021, The Lancet)
  • "Height and body-mass index trajectories of school-aged children and adolescents from 1985 to 2019 in 200 countries and territories: a pooled analysis of 2181 population-based studies with 65 million participants" (2020, The Lancet)
  • "The impact of triglyceride-glucose index on incident cardiovascular events during 16 years of follow-up: Tehran Lipid and Glucose Study" (2020, Cardiovascular Diabetology)
  • "Hypothyroidism" (2022, Nature Reviews Disease Primers)
  • "Repositioning of the global epicentre of non-optimal cholesterol" (2020, Nature)

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • A century of trends in adult human height

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

  • Reproducibility and relative validity of food group intake in a food frequency questionnaire developed for the Tehran Lipid and Glucose Study

    Firoozeh Hosseini Esfahani;Golaleh Asghari;Parvin Mirmiran;Fereidoun Azizi

  • Prevalence of metabolic syndrome in an urban population: Tehran Lipid and Glucose Study.

    Fereidoun Azizi;Payam Salehi;Arash Etemadi;Saleh Zahedi-Asl

  • Prevention of non-communicable disease in a population in nutrition transition: Tehran Lipid and Glucose Study phase II

    Fereidoun Azizi;Arash Ghanbarian;Amir Abbas Momenan;Farzad Hadaegh

  • Prevalence Of Metabolic Syndrome In An Urban Population: Tehran Lipid And Glucose Study

    Azizi F;Etemadi A;Salehi P;Zahedi Asl S

  • Beneficial Effects of a Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension Eating Plan on Features of the Metabolic Syndrome

    Leila Azadbakht;Parvin Mirmiran;Ahmad Esmaillzadeh;Tohid Azizi

  • Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults

    Honor Bixby;James Bentham;Bin Zhou;Mariachiara Di Cesare

  • Cardiovascular risk factors in an Iranian urban population: Tehran Lipid and Glucose Study (Phase 1)

    Fereidoun Azizi;Maziar Rahmani;Habib Emami;P Mirmiran

  • Dietary polyphenols as potential nutraceuticals in management of diabetes: a review

    Zahra Bahadoran;Parvin Mirmiran;Fereidoun Azizi

  • 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

  • Dairy consumption is inversely associated with the prevalence of the metabolic syndrome in Tehranian adults

    Leila Azadbakht;Parvin Mirmiran;Ahmad Esmaillzadeh;Fereidoun Azizi

  • Diversion of peripheral thyroxine metabolism from activating to inactivating pathways during complete fasting.

    A. G. Vagenakis;A. Burger;G. I. Portnay;M. Rudolph

  • The prevalence of polycystic ovary syndrome in a community sample of Iranian population: Iranian PCOS prevalence study

    Fahimeh Ramezani Tehrani;Masoumeh Simbar;Maryam Tohidi;Farhad Hosseinpanah

  • Follow-up study of male and female offspring of DES-exposed mothers.

    M Bibbo;W B Gill;F Azizi;R Blough

  • Guidelines of the American Thyroid Association for the Diagnosis and Management of Thyroid Disease During Pregnancy and Postpartum The American Thyroid Association Taskforce on Thyroid Disease During Pregnancy and Postpartum

    Alex Stagnaro-Green;Marcos Abalovich;Erik Alexander;Fereidoun Azizi

Frequent Co-Authors

Parvin Mirmiran
Parvin Mirmiran Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences
Mark Woodward
Mark Woodward Imperial College London
Mohammad Ali Mansournia
Mohammad Ali Mansournia Tehran University of Medical Sciences
Ahmad Esmaillzadeh
Ahmad Esmaillzadeh Tehran University of Medical Sciences
Jonathan E. Shaw
Jonathan E. Shaw Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute
Majid Ezzati
Majid Ezzati Imperial College London
Farshad Farzadfar
Farshad Farzadfar Tehran University of Medical Sciences
Leila Azadbakht
Leila Azadbakht Tehran University of Medical Sciences
Dianna J. Magliano
Dianna J. Magliano Monash University
Renata Cifkova
Renata Cifkova Charles University

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