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Fernando Rodríguez-Artalejo

Fernando Rodríguez-Artalejo

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Medicine

D-Index
105
Citations
73566
World Ranking
6640
National Ranking
96

Overview

Fernando Rodríguez-Artalejo is affiliated with the Autonomous University of Madrid in Spain. Their research activity is mainly situated within the field of Medicine, with a specific focus on subfields such as Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Physiology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Infectious Diseases, and Geriatrics and Gerontology.

The scientist's work spans several key topics, including:

  • Nutritional Studies and Diet
  • Nutrition and Health in Aging
  • Frailty in Older Adults
  • Diet and Metabolism Studies
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Physical Activity and Health
  • Health Disparities and Outcomes

Rodríguez-Artalejo has contributed to multiple research papers, among which the following are notable for their citation impact and subject matter:

  • Long-term secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease with a Mediterranean diet and a low-fat diet (CORDIOPREV): a randomised controlled trial, 2022, The Lancet
  • Education and wealth inequalities in healthy ageing in eight harmonised cohorts in the ATHLOS consortium: a population-based study, 2020, The Lancet Public Health
  • Diet quality and risk of frailty among older women in the Nurses' Health Study, 2020, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
  • Muscle strength and incidence of depression and anxiety: findings from the UK Biobank prospective cohort study, 2022, Journal of Cachexia Sarcopenia and Muscle
  • Changes in Health Behaviors, Mental and Physical Health among Older Adults under Severe Lockdown Restrictions during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Spain, 2021, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

The scientist frequently collaborates with a number of coauthors, including:

  • Rosario Ortolá
  • Esther López-García
  • Esther García-Esquinas
  • Mercedes Sotos-Prieto
  • José R. Banegas

Publications by Rodríguez-Artalejo often appear in journals such as:

  • Revista Española de Quimioterapia
  • The Journals of Gerontology Series A
  • Nutrients
  • American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
  • Clinical Nutrition

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

  • Hypertension prevalence and blood pressure levels in 6 European countries, Canada, and the United States.

    Katharina Wolf-Maier;Richard S. Cooper;José R. Banegas;Simona Giampaoli

  • 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

  • The 15-Country Collaborative Study of Cancer Risk among Radiation Workers in the Nuclear Industry: Estimates of Radiation-Related Cancer Risks

    E. Cardis;M. Vrijheid;M. Blettner;E. Gilbert

  • Risk of cancer after low doses of ionising radiation: retrospective cohort study in 15 countries

    E. Cardis;M. Vrijheid;M. Blettner;E. Gilbert

  • 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 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

  • The effectiveness of disease management programmes in reducing hospital re-admission in older patients with heart failure: a systematic review and meta-analysis of published reports

    Jonás Gonseth;Pilar Guallar-Castillón;José R Banegas;Fernando Rodríguez-Artalejo

  • Prevalence of general and abdominal obesity in the adult population of Spain, 2008-2010: the ENRICA study.

    J. L. Gutiérrez-Fisac;P. Guallar-Castillón;L. M. León-Muñoz;A. Graciani

  • Association between health information, use of protective devices and occurrence of acute health problems in the Prestige oil spill clean-up in Asturias and Cantabria (Spain): a cross-sectional study

    José Miguel Carrasco;Virginia Lope;Beatriz Pérez-Gómez;Nuria Aragonés

  • Relationship between Clinic and Ambulatory Blood-Pressure Measurements and Mortality

    José R. Banegas;Luis M. Ruilope;Alejandro de la Sierra;Ernest Vinyoles

  • Achievement of treatment goals for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease in clinical practice across Europe: the EURIKA study

    Jose R. Banegas;Esther Lopez-Garcia;Jean Dallongeville;Eliseo Guallar

  • Gender differences in the utilization of health-care services among the older adult population of Spain

    Áurea Redondo-Sendino;Pilar Guallar-Castillón;José Ramón Banegas;Fernando Rodríguez-Artalejo

  • Health-related quality of life as a predictor of hospital readmission and death among patients with heart failure.

    Fernando Rodríguez-Artalejo;Pilar Guallar-Castillón;Carlos Rodríguez Pascual;Carmen Montoto Otero

  • Effectiveness of acute geriatric units on functional decline, living at home, and case fatality among older patients admitted to hospital for acute medical disorders: meta-analysis.

    Juan J Baztán;Francisco M Suárez-García;Jesús López-Arrieta;Leocadio Rodríguez-Mañas

  • Blood Pressure in Spain Distribution, Awareness, Control, and Benefits of a Reduction in Average Pressure

    José R. Banegas;Fernando Rodríguez-Artalejo;Juan José de la Cruz Troca;Pilar Guallar-Castillón

Frequent Co-Authors

José R. Banegas
José R. Banegas Autonomous University of Madrid
Luis M. Ruilope
Luis M. Ruilope European University of Madrid
Enrique Regidor
Enrique Regidor Complutense University of Madrid
Leocadio Rodríguez-Mañas
Leocadio Rodríguez-Mañas Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Guy De Backer
Guy De Backer Ghent University
José Luis Ayuso-Mateos
José Luis Ayuso-Mateos Autonomous University of Madrid
Jose M. Ordovas
Jose M. Ordovas Tufts University
Martin Bobak
Martin Bobak University College London
Jean Dallongeville
Jean Dallongeville Institut Pasteur
Seppo Koskinen
Seppo Koskinen Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare

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