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Kurt Widhalm publication distribution in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Medicine in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Kurt Widhalm sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,796 publications or more.

Kurt Widhalm D-index placement in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Medicine scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Kurt Widhalm sits on this spectrum.

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Research.com Recognitions

  • Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts

Overview

Kurt Widhalm is affiliated with the Medical University of Vienna in Austria. Their body of work focuses primarily on the fields of Medicine, with particular attention to Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, General Health Professions, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Surgery, and Physiology.

The scientist's research topics span various areas including Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet; Nutritional Studies and Diet; Lipoproteins and Cardiovascular Health; Health and Lifestyle Studies; Eating Disorders and Behaviors; Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins; and Physical Activity and Health.

Widhalm has contributed to numerous publications, often appearing in venues such as Nutrients, Pädiatrie & Pädologie, Child and Adolescent Obesity, Monatsschrift Kinderheilkunde, and Adipositas - Ursachen Folgeerkrankungen Therapie.

Some recent papers affiliated with or relevant to their research include:

  • Global perspective of familial hypercholesterolaemia: a cross-sectional study from the EAS Familial Hypercholesterolaemia Studies Collaboration (FHSC), 2021, The Lancet
  • A 6-month randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of weekly exenatide in adolescents with obesity, 2020, Pediatric Obesity
  • Development of a Genetic Risk Score to predict the risk of overweight and obesity in European adolescents from the HELENA study, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Relative validity of the Planetary Health Diet Index by comparison with usual nutrient intakes, plasma food consumption biomarkers, and adherence to the Mediterranean diet among European adolescents: the HELENA study, 2023, European Journal of Nutrition
  • Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Groups and Metabolic Syndrome in European Adolescents: The HELENA Study, 2020, Journal of Adolescent Health

Widhalm has collaborated extensively with a core group of co-authors, including Luís A. Moreno, Marcela González-Gross, Yannis Μanios, Anthony Kafatos, and Frédèric Gottrand, reflecting a consistent network in their research activities.

The scientist is recognized as a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.

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 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

  • A century of trends in adult human height

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

  • 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

  • Associations between dietary inflammatory index and inflammatory markers in the Asklepios Study.

    Nitin Shivappa;James R. Hébert;Ernst R. Rietzschel;Marc L. De Buyzere

  • Objectively Measured Physical Activity and Sedentary Time in European Adolescents The HELENA Study

    Jonatan R. Ruiz;Francisco B. Ortega;David Martínez-Gómez;Idoia Labayen

  • Design and implementation of the Healthy Lifestyle in Europe by Nutrition in Adolescence Cross-Sectional Study.

    L A Moreno;S De Henauw;M González-Gross;M Kersting

  • Height and body-mass index trajectories of school-aged children and adolescents from 1985 to 2019 in 200 countries and territories: a pooled analysis of 2181 population-based studies with 65 million participants

    Andrea Rodriguez-Martinez;Bin Zhou;Marisa K. Sophiea;James Bentham

  • New insights into the field of children and adolescents' obesity: the European perspective.

    Carl-Erik Flodmark;I Lissau;L A Moreno;A Pietrobelli

  • Inter-disciplinary European guidelines on surgery of severe obesity

    M Fried;V Hainer;A Basdevant;H Buchwald

  • The International Fitness Scale (IFIS): usefulness of self-reported fitness in youth

    Francisco B Ortega;Jonatan R Ruiz;Vanesa España-Romero;Germán Vicente-Rodriguez

  • Vitamin D status among adolescents in Europe: the Healthy Lifestyle in Europe by Nutrition in Adolescence study.

    Marcela González-Gross;Jara Valtueña;Christina Breidenassel;Luis A. Moreno

  • Interdisciplinary European guidelines on surgery of severe obesity.

    Martin Fried;Vojtĕch Hainer;Arnaud Basdevant;Henry Buchwald

  • Assessing, understanding and modifying nutritional status, eating habits and physical activity in European adolescents: the HELENA (Healthy Lifestyle in Europe by Nutrition in Adolescence) Study.

    LA Moreno;M González-Gross;M Kersting;D Molnár

  • A Proinflammatory State Is Detectable in Obese Children and Is Accompanied by Functional and Morphological Vascular Changes

    Stylianos Kapiotis;Gregor Holzer;Georg Schaller;Markus Haumer

  • PEDIATRIC HIGHLIGHT New insights into the field of children and adolescents' obesity: the European perspective

    C-E Flodmark;I Lissau;LA Moreno;A Pietrobelli

  • CLINICAL GUIDELINES Inter-disciplinary European guidelines on surgery of severe obesity

    M Fried;V Hainer;A Basdevant;H Buchwald

Frequent Co-Authors

Marcela González-Gross
Marcela González-Gross Technical University of Madrid
Luis A. Moreno
Luis A. Moreno University of Zaragoza
Dénes Molnár
Dénes Molnár University of Pecs
Frédéric Gottrand
Frédéric Gottrand University of Lille
Inge Huybrechts
Inge Huybrechts International Agency For Research On Cancer
Yannis Manios
Yannis Manios Harokopio University
Jonatan R. Ruiz
Jonatan R. Ruiz University of Granada
Francisco B. Ortega
Francisco B. Ortega University of Granada
Jean Dallongeville
Jean Dallongeville Institut Pasteur
Michael Sjöström
Michael Sjöström Karolinska Institute

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