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Overview

José R. Banegas is affiliated with the Autonomous University of Madrid in Spain. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with a significant emphasis on public health, environmental and occupational health, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, physiology, endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, and nutrition and dietetics.

Their work spans several interconnected topics, including:

  • Nutritional Studies and Diet
  • Nutrition and Health in Aging
  • Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies
  • Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins
  • Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Frailty in Older Adults

Banegas has published research in a range of scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Nutrients
  • The Journals of Gerontology Series A
  • Clinical Nutrition
  • Age and Ageing
  • American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Notable recent papers demonstrate a focus on large-scale population health and nutrition-related risks. These publications include:

  • Worldwide trends in diabetes prevalence and treatment from 1990 to 2022: a pooled analysis of 1108 population-representative studies with 141 million participants (2024), published in The Lancet
  • Repositioning of the global epicentre of non-optimal cholesterol (2020), published in Nature
  • Changes in Health Behaviors, Mental and Physical Health among Older Adults under Severe Lockdown Restrictions during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Spain (2021), published in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Ultra-Processed Food Consumption Is Associated with Abdominal Obesity: A Prospective Cohort Study in Older Adults (2020), published in Nutrients
  • High Consumption of Ultra-Processed Food is Associated with Incident Dyslipidemia: A Prospective Study of Older Adults (2021), published in Journal of Nutrition

In their collaborative research, Banegas has frequently co-authored with several scientists. Regular collaborators include:

  • Fernando Rodríguez-Artalejo
  • Rosario Ortolá
  • Pilar Guallar-Castillón
  • Esther López-García
  • Carolina Donat-Vargas

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

  • 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

  • Hypertension prevalence and blood pressure levels in 6 European countries, Canada, and the United States.

    Katharina Wolf-Maier;Richard S. Cooper;José R. Banegas;Simona Giampaoli

  • 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

  • Hypertension Treatment and Control in Five European Countries, Canada, and the United States

    Katharina Wolf-Maier;Richard S. Cooper;Holly Kramer;José R. Banegas

  • A century of trends in adult human height

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

  • Clinical Features of 8295 Patients With Resistant Hypertension Classified on the Basis of Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring

    Alejandro de la Sierra;Julián Segura;José R. Banegas;Manuel Gorostidi

  • The effectiveness of disease management programmes in reducing hospital re-admission in older patients with heart failure: a systematic review and meta-analysis of published reports

    Jonás Gonseth;Pilar Guallar-Castillón;José R Banegas;Fernando Rodríguez-Artalejo

  • Prevalence of general and abdominal obesity in the adult population of Spain, 2008-2010: the ENRICA study.

    J. L. Gutiérrez-Fisac;P. Guallar-Castillón;L. M. León-Muñoz;A. Graciani

  • Relationship between Clinic and Ambulatory Blood-Pressure Measurements and Mortality

    José R. Banegas;Luis M. Ruilope;Alejandro de la Sierra;Ernest Vinyoles

  • Achievement of treatment goals for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease in clinical practice across Europe: the EURIKA study

    Jose R. Banegas;Esther Lopez-Garcia;Jean Dallongeville;Eliseo Guallar

  • Gender differences in the utilization of health-care services among the older adult population of Spain

    Áurea Redondo-Sendino;Pilar Guallar-Castillón;José Ramón Banegas;Fernando Rodríguez-Artalejo

  • Prevalence and Factors Associated With Circadian Blood Pressure Patterns in Hypertensive Patients

    Alejandro de la Sierra;Josep Redon;José R. Banegas;Julián Segura

  • Health-related quality of life as a predictor of hospital readmission and death among patients with heart failure.

    Fernando Rodríguez-Artalejo;Pilar Guallar-Castillón;Carlos Rodríguez Pascual;Carmen Montoto Otero

  • Blood Pressure in Spain Distribution, Awareness, Control, and Benefits of a Reduction in Average Pressure

    José R. Banegas;Fernando Rodríguez-Artalejo;Juan José de la Cruz Troca;Pilar Guallar-Castillón

  • Dietary fat, olive oil intake and breast cancer risk

    Jose M. Martin-Moreno;Walter C. Willett;Lydia Gorgojo;Jose R. Banegas

  • Long-term and recent trends in hypertension awareness, treatment, and control in 12 high-income countries: an analysis of 123 nationally representative surveys

    Bin Zhou;Goodarz Danaei;Gretchen A. Stevens;Honor Bixby

  • Epidemiología de la insuficiencia cardíaca

    Fernando Rodríguez-Artalejo;José R. Banegas Banegas;Pilar Guallar-Castillón

  • Hypertension magnitude and management in the elderly population of Spain

    José R Banegas;Fernando Rodríguez-Artalejo;Luis M Ruilope;Auxiliadora Graciani

Frequent Co-Authors

Fernando Rodríguez-Artalejo
Fernando Rodríguez-Artalejo Autonomous University of Madrid
Luis M. Ruilope
Luis M. Ruilope European University of Madrid
Josep Redon
Josep Redon University of Valencia
Simona Giampaoli
Simona Giampaoli Istituto Superiore di Sanità
Guy De Backer
Guy De Backer Ghent University
Majid Ezzati
Majid Ezzati Imperial College London
Annika Rosengren
Annika Rosengren Sahlgrenska University Hospital
Eliseo Guallar
Eliseo Guallar Johns Hopkins University
Mark Woodward
Mark Woodward Imperial College London

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