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Jan A. Staessen

Jan A. Staessen

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Medicine
Belgium
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Medicine

D-Index
162
Citations
151334
World Ranking
693
National Ranking
6

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Medicine in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Medicine in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Medicine in Belgium Leader Award

Overview

Jan A. Staessen is affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium and has a significant record of contributions to the field of medicine, particularly in cardiology and cardiovascular medicine. Their research experience encompasses areas including blood pressure and hypertension studies, cardiovascular health and disease prevention, heart rate variability and autonomic control, heart failure treatment and management, cardiovascular function and risk factors, hormonal regulation and hypertension, and GDF15 and related biomarkers.

Staessen's publication record shows engagement in multiple subfields of study such as cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, health toxicology and mutagenesis, endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, surgery, and radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging. Their work has been published extensively in venues with a focus on cardiovascular medicine and related topics.

  • Hypertension
  • Journal of Hypertension
  • European Heart Journal
  • European Journal of Heart Failure
  • Hypertension Research

Among the recent papers involving or associated with Staessen, notable works include:

  • 2024 ESC Guidelines for the management of elevated blood pressure and hypertension (2024) published in European Heart Journal
  • Pharmacological blood pressure lowering for primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease across different levels of blood pressure: an individual participant-level data meta-analysis (2021) published in The Lancet
  • Age-stratified and blood-pressure-stratified effects of blood-pressure-lowering pharmacotherapy for the prevention of cardiovascular disease and death: an individual participant-level data meta-analysis (2021) published in The Lancet
  • Salt and cardiovascular disease: insufficient evidence to recommend low sodium intake (2020) published in European Heart Journal
  • Individual participant data meta-analysis to examine interactions between treatment effect and participant-level covariates: Statistical recommendations for conduct and planning (2020) published in Statistics in Medicine

Staessen frequently collaborates with other researchers. Their most common co-authors include:

  • Lutgarde Thijs (66 joint publications)
  • Zhen-Yu Zhang (48 joint publications)
  • Yu-Ling Yu (36 joint publications)
  • Harald Mischak (35 joint publications)
  • Wen-Yi Yang (34 joint publications)

The main topics of Staessen's body of work provide insight into their research focus areas and are representative of their scientific interests and expertise.

  • Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies
  • Cardiovascular Health and Disease Prevention
  • Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
  • Heart Failure Treatment and Management
  • Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors
  • Hormonal Regulation and Hypertension
  • GDF15 and Related Biomarkers

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

  • Randomised double-blind comparison of placebo and active treatment for older patients with isolated systolic hypertension *

    Jan Staessen;Robert Fagard;Lutgarde Thijs;Hilde Celis

  • Treatment of Hypertension in Patients 80 Years of Age or Older

    Nigel S. Beckett;Ruth Peters;Astrid E. Fletcher;Jan A. Staessen

  • 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

  • 2003 European society of hypertension - European Society of Cardiology guidelines for the management of arterial hypertension

    G Mancia;EA Rosei;R Cifkova;G DeBacker

  • 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

  • Predicting cardiovascular risk using conventional vs ambulatory blood pressure in older patients with systolic hypertension.

    Jan Staessen;Lutgarde Thijs;Robert Fagard;E T O'Brien

  • 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

  • European Society of Hypertension recommendations for conventional, ambulatory and home blood pressure measurement.

    Eoin O'Brien;Roland Asmar;Lawrie Beilin;Yutaka Imai

  • Genetic variants in novel pathways influence blood pressure and cardiovascular disease risk

    Georg B. Ehret;Georg B. Ehret;Georg B. Ehret;Patricia B. Munroe;Kenneth M. Rice;Murielle Bochud

  • Prevention of dementia in randomised double-blind placebo-controlled Systolic Hypertension in Europe (Syst-Eur) trial.

    Françoise Forette;Marie-Laure Seux;Jan A Staessen;Lutgarde Thijs

  • Prognostic value of aortic pulse wave velocity as index of arterial stiffness in the general population.

    Tine Willum Hansen;Jan A. Staessen;Christian Torp-Pedersen;Susanne Rasmussen

  • Risks of untreated and treated isolated systolic hypertension in the elderly: meta-analysis of outcome trials

    Jan A Staessen;Jerzy Gasowski;Jerzy Gasowski;Ji G Wang;Ji G Wang;Lutgarde Thijs

  • Superiority of Ambulatory Over Clinic Blood Pressure Measurement in Predicting Mortality The Dublin Outcome Study

    Eamon Dolan;Alice Stanton;Lutgarde Thijs;Kareem Hinedi

  • European Society of Hypertension Position Paper on Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring

    Eoin O’Brien;Gianfranco Parati;George Stergiou;Roland Asmar

  • Genome-wide association study identifies 74 loci associated with educational attainment

    Aysu Okbay;Jonathan P. Beauchamp;Mark Alan Fontana;James J. Lee

  • Clinical applications of arterial stiffness; definitions and reference values

    Michael F O'Rourke;Jan A Staessen;Charalambos Vlachopoulos;Daniel Duprez

  • A century of trends in adult human height

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

  • European Society of Hypertension recommendations for conventional, ambulatory and home blood pressure

    Roland Asmar;Lawrie Beilin;Yutaka Imai;Jean-Michel Mallion

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert Fagard
Robert Fagard KU Leuven
Ji-Guang Wang
Ji-Guang Wang Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Eoin O'Brien
Eoin O'Brien University College Dublin
Takayoshi Ohkubo
Takayoshi Ohkubo Teikyo University
Tim S. Nawrot
Tim S. Nawrot Hasselt University
Yutaka Imai
Yutaka Imai Tohoku University
Lars Lind
Lars Lind Uppsala University
Josep Redon
Josep Redon University of Valencia

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