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Kari Kuulasmaa is affiliated with the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare in Finland. Their research is primarily within the field of Medicine, with a significant focus on cardiology and related disciplines.

Their main subfields of study include:

  • Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
  • Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
  • Surgery
  • Epidemiology

Kuulasmaa's research covers various topics, notably:

  • Atrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes
  • Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors
  • Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins
  • Lipoproteins and Cardiovascular Health
  • Diabetes Treatment and Management
  • Acute Myocardial Infarction Research
  • Heart Failure Treatment and Management

They have published extensively, with a total of 133 publications centered predominantly on Medicine. Key frequent publication venues include:

  • European Heart Journal
  • Cardiovascular Diabetology
  • ESC Heart Failure
  • European Journal of Preventive Cardiology
  • Atherosclerosis

Among Kuulasmaa's frequently published works are the following papers:

  • "SCORE2 risk prediction algorithms: new models to estimate 10-year risk of cardiovascular disease in Europe" (2021, European Heart Journal)
  • "Global Effect of Modifiable Risk Factors on Cardiovascular Disease and Mortality" (2023, New England Journal of Medicine)
  • "Repositioning of the global epicentre of non-optimal cholesterol" (2020, Nature)
  • "Alcohol consumption, cardiac biomarkers, and risk of atrial fibrillation and adverse outcomes" (2020, European Heart Journal)
  • "Does Estimated Pulse Wave Velocity Add Prognostic Information?" (2020, Hypertension)

Kuulasmaa collaborates frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Veikko Salomaa
  • Stefan Söderberg
  • Licia Iacoviello
  • Allan Linneberg
  • Stefan Blankenberg

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

  • Myocardial infarction and coronary deaths in the World Health Organization MONICA Project. Registration procedures, event rates, and case-fatality rates in 38 populations from 21 countries in four continents.

    H. Tunstall-Pedoe;Kari Kuulasmaa;P. Amouyel;D. Arveiler

  • 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

  • Contribution of trends in survival and coronar y-event rates to changes in coronary heart disease mortality: 10-year results from 37 WHO MONICA Project populations

    Hugh Tunstall-Pedoe;Kari Kuulasmaa;Markku Mähönen;Hanna Tolonen

  • Large-scale association analysis identifies new risk loci for coronary artery disease

    Panos Deloukas;Stavroula Kanoni;Christina Willenborg;Martin Farrall

  • A century of trends in adult human height

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

  • Estimation of contribution of changes in classic risk factors to trends in coronary-event rates across the WHO MONICA Project populations

    Kari Kuulasmaa;Hugh Tunstall-Pedoe;Annette Dobson;Stephen Fortmann

  • SCORE2 risk prediction algorithms: new models to estimate 10-year risk of cardiovascular disease in Europe

    Steven Hageman;Lisa Pennells

  • Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults

    Honor Bixby;James Bentham;Bin Zhou;Mariachiara Di Cesare

  • Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies 11 new loci for anthropometric traits and provides insights into genetic architecture

    Sonja I Berndt;Stefan Gustafsson;Stefan Gustafsson;Reedik Mägi;Reedik Mägi;Andrea Ganna

  • Stroke Incidence, Case Fatality, and Mortality in the WHO MONICA Project

    Per Thorvaldsen;Kjell Asplund;Kari Kuulasmaa;Anna-Maija Rajakangas

  • Estimation of contribution of changes in coronary care to improving survival, event rates, and coronary heart disease mortality across the WHO MONICA Project populations

    Hugh Tunstall-Pedoe;Diego Vanuzzo;Michael Hobbs;Markku Mähönen

  • Exome-wide association study of plasma lipids in > 300,000 individuals

    Dajiang J Liu;Gina M Peloso;Gina M Peloso;Haojie Yu;Adam S Butterworth;Adam S Butterworth

  • Rare variant in scavenger receptor BI raises HDL cholesterol and increases risk of coronary heart disease

    Zanoni P;Khetarpal Sa;Larach Db;Hancock-Cerutti Wf

  • Educational level, relative body weight, and changes in their association over 10 years: an international perspective from the WHO MONICA Project

    A Molarius;J C Seidell;S Sans;J Tuomilehto

  • Impact of smoking and smoking cessation on cardiovascular events and mortality among older adults: meta-analysis of individual participant data from prospective cohort studies of the CHANCES consortium

    Ute Mons;Aysel Müezzinler;Aysel Müezzinler;Carolin Gellert;Ben Schöttker

  • World Health Organization definition of myocardial infarction: 2008–09 revision

    Shanthi Mendis;Kristian Thygesen;Kari Kuulasmaa;Simona Giampaoli

  • Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies 11 new loci for anthropometric traits and provides insights into genetic architecture

    Sonja I. Berndt;Stefan Gustafsson;Reedik Maegi;Andrea Ganna

Frequent Co-Authors

Veikko Salomaa
Veikko Salomaa Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
Frank Kee
Frank Kee Queen's University Belfast
Torben Jørgensen
Torben Jørgensen University of Copenhagen
Jean Ferrières
Jean Ferrières Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Markus Perola
Markus Perola Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
Stefan Söderberg
Stefan Söderberg Umeå University
Annette Peters
Annette Peters Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Allan Linneberg
Allan Linneberg University of Copenhagen
Hanna Tolonen
Hanna Tolonen Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
Jaakko Tuomilehto
Jaakko Tuomilehto University of Helsinki

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