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Hiroyasu Iso

Hiroyasu Iso

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Medicine
Japan
2023

D-Index & Metrics

Medicine

D-Index
121
Citations
96366
World Ranking
3525
National Ranking
68

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Japan Leader Award

Overview

Hiroyasu Iso is affiliated with Osaka University in Japan and specializes primarily in the field of Medicine, with a focus on public health and epidemiological research. Their work spans diverse subfields including Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Epidemiology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, as well as Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.

The recent scholarly output includes publications such as "Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate, Albuminuria, and Adverse Outcomes" (2023, JAMA), "Global, regional, and national burden of gout, 1990-2020, and projections to 2050: a systematic analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021" (2024, The Lancet Rheumatology), "Bullying victimisation in adolescence: prevalence and inequalities by gender, socioeconomic status and academic performance across 71 countries" (2021, EClinicalMedicine), "Association of soy and fermented soy product intake with total and cause specific mortality: prospective cohort study" (2020, BMJ), and "Impact of seaweed intake on health" (2020, European Journal of Clinical Nutrition).

Key topics recurrent in their research include Nutritional Studies and Diet, Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet, Birth, Development, and Health, Gestational Diabetes Research and Management, Health Disparities and Outcomes, Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies, and Pregnancy and Preeclampsia Studies.

Iso has frequently collaborated with other researchers including Kazumasa Yamagishi, Isao Muraki, Shoichiro Tsugane, Norie Sawada, and Hironori Imano. These collaborations have contributed to a significant volume of work in related areas.

Publication venues where their research appears most often include:

  • Journal of Atherosclerosis and Thrombosis
  • Scientific Reports
  • Journal of Epidemiology
  • Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine
  • British Journal Of Nutrition

Throughout their career, Iso has contributed extensively to medical literature, with a total of 779 publications focused largely on health-related issues. Within this body of work, 153 publications fall under Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 94 under Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, 67 under Epidemiology, 56 under Obstetrics and Gynecology, and 54 under Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.

Best Publications

  • Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    Theo Vos;Theo Vos;Theo Vos;Stephen S. Lim;Cristiana Abbafati;Cristiana Abbafati;Cristiana Abbafati;Kaja M. Abbas;Kaja M. Abbas;Kaja M. Abbas

  • Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    Christopher J.L. Murray;Christopher J.L. Murray;Christopher J.L. Murray;Aleksandr Y. Aravkin;Aleksandr Y. Aravkin;Aleksandr Y. Aravkin;Peng Zheng;Peng Zheng;Peng Zheng;Cristiana Abbafati;Cristiana Abbafati;Cristiana Abbafati

  • Global, regional, and national burden of stroke and its risk factors, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    Valery L Feigin;Benjamin A Stark;Catherine Owens Johnson;Gregory A Roth

  • Global age-sex-specific fertility, mortality, healthy life expectancy (HALE), and population estimates in 204 countries and territories, 1950–2019: a comprehensive demographic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    Haidong Wang;Kaja M. Abbas;Mitra Abbasifard;Mohsen Abbasi-Kangevari

  • Serum cholesterol levels and six-year mortality from stroke in 350,977 men screened for the multiple risk factor intervention trial

    Hiroyasu Iso;David R. Jacobs;Deborah Wentworth;James D. Neaton

  • Spatial, temporal, and demographic patterns in prevalence of smoking tobacco use and attributable disease burden in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    Marissa B Reitsma;Parkes J Kendrick;Emad Ababneh;Cristiana Abbafati

  • Plasma fibrinogen level and the risk of major cardiovascular diseases and nonvascular mortality: an individual participant meta-analysis.

    J Danesh;S Lewington;S G Thompson;Lowe Gdo.

  • C-Reactive Protein, Fibrinogen, and Cardiovascular Disease Prediction

    Stephen Kaptoge;Emanuele Di Angelantonio;Lisa Pennells;Angela M. Wood

  • World Health Organization cardiovascular disease risk charts: revised models to estimate risk in 21 global regions

    Stephen Kaptoge;Lisa Pennells;Dirk De Bacquer;Marie Therese Cooney

  • Report of the Conference on Low Blood Cholesterol: Mortality Associations.

    D Jacobs;H Blackburn;M Higgins;D Reed

  • Association of Cardiometabolic Multimorbidity With Mortality

    Emanuele Di Angelantonio;Stephen Kaptoge;David Wormser;Peter Willeit

  • Intake of fish and n3 fatty acids and risk of coronary heart disease among Japanese: the Japan Public Health Center-Based (JPHC) Study Cohort I.

    Hiroyasu Iso;Minatsu Kobayashi;Junko Ishihara;Satoshi Sasaki

  • Intake of fish and omega-3 fatty acids and risk of stroke in women.

    Hiroyasu Iso;Kathryn M. Rexrode;Meir J. Stampfer;JoAnn E. Manson

  • Five insights from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    Christopher J.L. Murray;Cristiana Abbafati;Kaja M. Abbas;Mohammad Abbasi

  • Measuring universal health coverage based on an index of effective coverage of health services in 204 countries and territories, 1990-2019 : a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019.

    Rafael Lozano;Nancy Fullman;John Everett Mumford;Megan Knight

  • The relationship between green tea and total caffeine intake and risk for self-reported type 2 diabetes among Japanese adults

    Hiroyasu Iso;Hiroyasu Iso;Chigusa Date;Chigusa Date;Kenji Wakai;Mitsuru Fukui

  • What has made the population of Japan healthy

    Nayu Ikeda;Eiko Saito;Naoki Kondo;Manami Inoue

  • Estimation of glomerular filtration rate by the MDRD study equation modified for Japanese patients with chronic kidney disease

    Enyu Imai;Masaru Horio;Kosaku Nitta;Kunihiro Yamagata

  • Trends for coronary heart disease and stroke and their risk factors in Japan.

    T Shimamoto;Y Komachi;H Inada;M Doi

  • Report of the conference on low blood cholesterol

    David R Jacobs;Henry Blackburn;Millicent Higgins;Dwayne Reed

Frequent Co-Authors

Akiko Tamakoshi
Akiko Tamakoshi Hokkaido University
Shoichiro Tsugane
Shoichiro Tsugane International University of Health and Welfare
Shinichi Sato
Shinichi Sato University of Tokyo
Manami Inoue
Manami Inoue National Cancer Centre
Motoki Iwasaki
Motoki Iwasaki National Cancer Research Institute, UK
Yoshihiro Kokubo
Yoshihiro Kokubo University of Glasgow
Tomonori Okamura
Tomonori Okamura Keio University
Kenji Wakai
Kenji Wakai Nagoya University
Aaron R. Folsom
Aaron R. Folsom University of Minnesota
Hirotsugu Ueshima
Hirotsugu Ueshima Shiga University of Medical Science

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