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Johan Sundström

Johan Sundström

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Medicine

D-Index
115
Citations
84542
World Ranking
4423
National Ranking
87

Overview

Johan Sundström is affiliated with Uppsala University in Sweden and has a significant publication record primarily in the field of Medicine, with a specialized focus on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. Their research spans various subfields, including Molecular Biology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, and Surgery.

The topics covered in Johan Sundström's work include:

  • Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies
  • Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors
  • Nutritional Studies and Diet
  • Heart Failure Treatment and Management
  • Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics
  • Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology

Recent papers attributed to Johan Sundström demonstrate involvement in large-scale cardiovascular research and epidemiology. Some of the notable publications include:

  • Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990-2019 (2020), published in Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  • 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), published in The Lancet
  • 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
  • Genomic and drug target evaluation of 90 cardiovascular proteins in 30,931 individuals (2020), published in Nature Metabolism
  • Prevalence of Subclinical Coronary Artery Atherosclerosis in the General Population (2021), published in Circulation

Johan Sundström frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including Lars Lind, Gunnar Engström, Johan Ärnlöv, Tove Fall, and Stefan Gustafsson.

The scientist's work is regularly published in well-known venues such as:

  • European Heart Journal
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • UNC Libraries
  • Journal of the American Heart Association
  • Circulation

Best Publications

  • Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019: Update From the GBD 2019 Study

    Gregory A. Roth;George A. Mensah;Catherine O. Johnson;Giovanni Addolorato

  • 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

  • Defining the role of common variation in the genomic and biological architecture of adult human height

    Andrew R. Wood;Tonu Esko;Jian Yang;Sailaja Vedantam

  • Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology

    Adam E. Locke;Bratati Kahali;Sonja I. Berndt;Anne E. Justice

  • 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

  • Genetic analysis of over 1 million people identifies 535 new loci associated with blood pressure traits.

    Evangelos Evangelou;Evangelos Evangelou;Helen R. Warren;Helen R. Warren;David Mosen-Ansorena;Borbala Mifsud

  • Use of Multiple Biomarkers to Improve the Prediction of Death from Cardiovascular Causes

    Björn Zethelius;Lars Berglund;Johan Sundström;Erik Ingelsson

  • 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

  • Interleukin-6 receptor pathways in coronary heart disease: a collaborative meta-analysis of 82 studies

    Nadeem Sarwar;Adam S. Butterworth;Daniel F. Freitag;John Gregson

  • Risk thresholds for alcohol consumption: combined analysis of individual-participant data for 599 912 current drinkers in 83 prospective studies

    Angela M. Wood;Stephen Kaptoge;Adam S. Butterworth;Peter Willeit

  • Association of Cardiometabolic Multimorbidity With Mortality

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

  • Relations of Serum Uric Acid to Longitudinal Blood Pressure Tracking and Hypertension Incidence

    Johan Sundström;Lisa Sullivan;Ralph B D'Agostino;Daniel Levy

  • Association between alcohol and cardiovascular disease:Mendelian randomisation analysis based on individual participant data

    Michael V Holmes;Michael V Holmes;Caroline E Dale;Luisa Zuccolo;Richard J Silverwood

  • Impact of Body Mass Index and the Metabolic Syndrome on the Risk of Cardiovascular Disease and Death in Middle-Aged Men

    Johan Ärnlöv;Erik Ingelsson;Johan Sundström;Lars Lind

  • Insulin Resistance and Risk of Congestive Heart Failure

    E. Ingelsson;J. Sundström;J. Ärnlöv;B. Zethelius

  • Genetic analysis of over 1 million people identifies 535 new loci associated with blood pressure traits

    Evangelos Evangelou;Helen R. Warren;David Mosen-Ansorena;Borbala Mifsu

Frequent Co-Authors

Lars Lind
Lars Lind Uppsala University
Johan Ärnlöv
Johan Ärnlöv Karolinska Institute
Erik Ingelsson
Erik Ingelsson Stanford University
Mark Woodward
Mark Woodward Imperial College London
Vilmundur Gudnason
Vilmundur Gudnason University of Iceland
Bruce M. Psaty
Bruce M. Psaty University of Washington
Veikko Salomaa
Veikko Salomaa Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
Nicholas J. Wareham
Nicholas J. Wareham University of Cambridge
Albert Hofman
Albert Hofman Harvard University
Annette Peters
Annette Peters Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

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