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National Ranking
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Overview

Jose M. Ordovas is affiliated with Tufts University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with significant contributions to physiology, molecular biology, public health, environmental and occupational health, genetics, and surgery.

The scientist's work covers a range of important topics in diet and metabolism studies, nutritional studies and diet, nutrition, genetics and disease, metabolomics and mass spectrometry studies, epigenetics and DNA methylation, genetic associations and epidemiology, and lipoproteins and cardiovascular health.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Jose M. Ordovas include:

  • José López-Miranda
  • Javier Delgado-Lista
  • Pablo Pérez-Martínez
  • Juan F. Alcalá-Díaz
  • Chao-Qiang Lai

Most publications appear in the following venues:

  • DIGITAL.CSIC (Spanish National Research Council (CSIC))
  • Current Developments in Nutrition
  • UNC Libraries
  • Nutrients
  • American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Selected recent publications by Jose M. Ordovas include:

  • Microbiome connections with host metabolism and habitual diet from 1,098 deeply phenotyped individuals, 2021, Nature Medicine
  • Human postprandial responses to food and potential for precision nutrition, 2020, Nature Medicine
  • Long-term secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease with a Mediterranean diet and a low-fat diet (CORDIOPREV): a randomised controlled trial, 2022, The Lancet
  • Saturated Fats and Health: A Reassessment and Proposal for Food-Based Recommendations, 2020, Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  • Lifestyle interventions for the prevention and treatment of hypertension, 2020, Nature Reviews Cardiology

Best Publications

  • Biological, clinical and population relevance of 95 loci for blood lipids

    Tanya M. Teslovich;Kiran Musunuru;Albert V. Smith;Andrew C. Edmondson

  • Discovery and refinement of loci associated with lipid levels

    Cristen J. Willer;Ellen M. Schmidt;Sebanti Sengupta;Gina M. Peloso;Gina M. Peloso;Gina M. Peloso

  • Plasma HDL cholesterol and risk of myocardial infarction: A mendelian randomisation study

    Benjamin F. Voight;Benjamin F. Voight;Benjamin F. Voight;Gina M. Peloso;Gina M. Peloso;Marju Orho-Melander;Ruth Frikke-Schmidt

  • Mixed linear model approach adapted for genome-wide association studies.

    Zhiwu Zhang;Elhan Ersoz;Chao-Qiang Lai;Rory J Todhunter

  • Six new loci associated with blood low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol or triglycerides in humans.

    Sekar Kathiresan;Sekar Kathiresan;Olle Melander;Candace Guiducci;Aarti Surti

  • Common variants at 30 loci contribute to polygenic dyslipidemia.

    Sekar Kathiresan;Sekar Kathiresan;Sekar Kathiresan;Cristen J. Willer;Gina M. Peloso;Serkalem Demissie

  • Common variants associated with plasma triglycerides and risk for coronary artery disease

    Ron Do;Cristen J. Willer;Ellen M. Schmidt;Sebanti Sengupta

  • Microbiome connections with host metabolism and habitual diet from 1,098 deeply phenotyped individuals.

    Francesco Asnicar;Sarah E. Berry;Ana M. Valdes;Ana M. Valdes;Long H. Nguyen

  • Familial lipoprotein disorders in patients with premature coronary artery disease.

    J. J. Genest;S. S. Martin-Munley;J. R. Mcnamara;J. M. Ordovas

  • Loss-of-function mutations in APOC3, triglycerides, and coronary disease

    Jacy Crosby;Gina M. Peloso;Gina M. Peloso;Paul L. Auer;David R. Crosslin

  • Evidence for Association and Genetic Linkage of the Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Locus With Hypertension and Blood Pressure in Men but Not Women in the Framingham Heart Study

    Christopher J. O’Donnell;Klaus Lindpaintner;Martin G. Larson;Valluri S. Rao

  • Apolipoprotein E alleles and risk of coronary disease. A meta-analysis.

    Peter W.F. Wilson;Ernst J. Schaefer;Martin G. Larson;Jose M. Ordovas

  • The PhenX Toolkit: Get the Most From Your Measures

    Carol M. Hamilton;Lisa C. Strader;Joseph G. Pratt;Deborah Maiese

  • Timing of food intake predicts weight loss effectiveness

    Marta Garaulet;Purificación Gómez-Abellán;Juan J Alburquerque-Béjar;Yu-Chi Lee

  • Low density lipoprotein particle size and coronary artery disease.

    H Campos;J J Genest;E Blijlevens;J R McNamara

  • Olive oil and health: summary of the II international conference on olive oil and health consensus report, Jaén and Córdoba (Spain) 2008.

    J. López-Miranda;F. Pérez-Jiménez;E. Ros;R. De Caterina

  • Lipoprotein(a) levels and risk of coronary heart disease in men. The lipid Research Clinics Coronary Primary Prevention Trial

    E J Schaefer;S Lamon-Fava;J L Jenner;J R McNamara

  • Postprandial plasma lipoprotein changes in human subjects of different ages.

    Jeffrey S. Cohn;Judith R. McNamara;Susan D. Cohn;Jose M. Ordovas

  • Apolipoprotein E Alleles, Dyslipidemia, and Coronary Heart Disease: The Framingham Offspring Study

    Peter W. F. Wilson;Richard H. Myers;Martin G. Larson;Jose M. Ordovas

  • Endotoxin and tumor necrosis factor induce interleukin-1 gene expression in adult human vascular endothelial cells.

    P Libby;J M Ordovas;K R Auger;A H Robbins

Frequent Co-Authors

Ernst J. Schaefer
Ernst J. Schaefer Tufts University
Dolores Corella
Dolores Corella University of Valencia
Jose Lopez-Miranda
Jose Lopez-Miranda Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Chao-Qiang Lai
Chao-Qiang Lai US Department of Agriculture
Katherine L. Tucker
Katherine L. Tucker University of Massachusetts Lowell
Laurence D. Parnell
Laurence D. Parnell United States Department of Agriculture
Donna K. Arnett
Donna K. Arnett University of South Carolina
L. Adrienne Cupples
L. Adrienne Cupples Boston University
Francisco Perez-Jimenez
Francisco Perez-Jimenez Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Ingrid B. Borecki
Ingrid B. Borecki Washington University in St. Louis

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