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Graham A. MacGregor is affiliated with Queen Mary University of London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on areas within medicine, nursing, and public health, with an emphasis on nutritional studies, sodium intake, and cardiovascular health.

The scientist has contributed extensively to multiple subfields of study, including public health, environmental and occupational health, nutrition and dietetics, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, physiology, and nephrology. Their work addresses a range of topics notably related to nutritional studies and diet, sodium intake and health, blood pressure and hypertension studies, consumer attitudes and food labeling, obesity, physical activity and diet, renal function and acid-base balance, as well as thermoregulation and physiological responses.

Frequent publication venues for Graham A. MacGregor include:

  • Journal of Hypertension
  • BMJ
  • BMJ Open
  • Hypertension
  • Nutrients

The scientist has coauthored numerous papers with several frequent collaborators. Notable frequent coauthors are Feng J. He, Monique Tan, Norm R.C. Campbell, Jing Song, and Yuan Li.

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Graham A. MacGregor include:

  • Salt Reduction to Prevent Hypertension and Cardiovascular Disease (2020), Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  • Effect of Dose and Duration of Reduction in Dietary Sodium on Blood Pressure Levels: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomised Trials (2020), BMJ
  • Impact of Color-Coded and Warning Nutrition Labelling Schemes: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis (2021), PLoS Medicine
  • Nutritional Quality of Plant-Based Meat Products Available in the UK: A Cross-Sectional Survey (2021), Nutrients
  • Sodium and Health-Concordance and Controversy (2020), BMJ

Best Publications

  • Effect of longer term modest salt reduction on blood pressure: Cochrane systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised trials

    Feng J He;Jiafu Li;Graham A MacGregor

  • A comprehensive review on salt and health and current experience of worldwide salt reduction programmes.

    F J He;G A MacGregor

  • Fruit and vegetable consumption and stroke: meta-analysis of cohort studies

    Feng J He;Caryl A Nowson;Graham A MacGregor

  • Effect of longer-term modest salt reduction on blood pressure.

    Feng J He;Jiafu Li;Graham A MacGregor

  • Effect of modest salt reduction on blood pressure: a meta-analysis of randomized trials. Implications for public health

    F J He;G A MacGregor

  • Increased consumption of fruit and vegetables is related to a reduced risk of coronary heart disease: meta-analysis of cohort studies

    F J He;C A Nowson;M Lucas;G A MacGregor

  • Links between dietary salt intake, renal salt handling, blood pressure, and cardiovascular diseases.

    Pierre Meneton;Xavier Jeunemaitre;Hugh E. de Wardener;Graham A. Macgregor

  • Reducing population salt intake worldwide: from evidence to implementation.

    Feng J. He;Graham A. MacGregor

  • Guidelines for management of hypertension: report of the third working party of the British Hypertension Society.

    LE Ramsay;B Williams;GD Johnston;GA MacGregor

  • Dahl's hypothesis that a saluretic substance may be responsible for a sustained rise in arterial pressure: Its possible role in essential hypertension

    Hugh E. de Wardener;Graham A. MacGregor

  • Sodium, Blood Pressure, and Cardiovascular Disease Further Evidence Supporting the American Heart Association Sodium Reduction Recommendations

    Paul K. Whelton;Lawrence J. Appel;Ralph L. Sacco;Cheryl A.M. Anderson

  • Plasma sodium stiffens vascular endothelium and reduces nitric oxide release

    Hans Oberleithner;Christoph Riethmüller;Hermann Schillers;Graham A. MacGregor

  • Importance of Salt in Determining Blood Pressure in Children: Meta-Analysis of Controlled Trials

    Feng J. He;Graham A. MacGregor

  • How Far Should Salt Intake Be Reduced

    Feng J. He;Graham A. MacGregor

  • British Hypertension Society guidelines for hypertension management 1999: summary

    L E Ramsay;B Williams;G D Johnston;G A MacGregor

  • DOUBLE-BLIND RANDOMISED CROSSOVER TRIAL OF MODERATE SODIUM RESTRICTION IN ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION

    GrahamA Macgregor;FionaE Best;JaniceM Cam;NirmalaD Markandu

  • Salt reduction in the United Kingdom: a successful experiment in public health.

    F J He;H C Brinsden;G A MacGregor

  • Salt reduction lowers cardiovascular risk: meta-analysis of outcome trials.

    Feng J He;Graham A MacGregor

  • Salt reduction in England from 2003 to 2011: its relationship to blood pressure, stroke and ischaemic heart disease mortality

    Feng J He;Sonia Pombo-Rodrigues;Graham A MacGregor

  • Does potassium supplementation lower blood pressure? A meta-analysis of published trials.

    Francesco P. Cappuccio;Graham A. MacGregor

Frequent Co-Authors

Francesco P. Cappuccio
Francesco P. Cappuccio University of Warwick
Bruce Neal
Bruce Neal George Institute for Global Health
Mark Woodward
Mark Woodward Imperial College London
Bart Bijnens
Bart Bijnens University of Barcelona
Daniel T. Lackland
Daniel T. Lackland Medical University of South Carolina
Nancy R. Cook
Nancy R. Cook Brigham and Women's Hospital
Paul K. Whelton
Paul K. Whelton Tulane University
Lucilla Poston
Lucilla Poston King's College London
Peter S. Mortimer
Peter S. Mortimer St George's, University of London
Lawrence J. Appel
Lawrence J. Appel Johns Hopkins University

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