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Sweden
2023

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Medicine

D-Index
118
Citations
90644
World Ranking
3959
National Ranking
79

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Sweden Leader Award

Overview

Lars Wilhelmsen is affiliated with the University of Gothenburg in Sweden and conducts research primarily in the field of Medicine, with particular focus on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. Their work spans several subfields including Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Epidemiology, and Economics and Econometrics.

Their research topics cover a range of themes related to cardiovascular health and chronic disease management. These include:

  • Cardiovascular and exercise physiology
  • Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies
  • Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
  • Chronic Disease Management Strategies
  • Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life

Among their recent scholarly contributions are the following papers:

  • Long-term risk of stroke and myocardial infarction in middle-aged men with a hypertensive response to exercise: a 44-year follow-up study, 2020, Journal of Hypertension
  • Association of Cardiometabolic Multimorbidity With Mortality, 2021, UNC Libraries
  • Innovation and Adaptation in COVID-19 Pandemic Posthospital Discharge Contact and Monitoring in the United States, 2024, CHEST Critical Care

Wilhelmsen frequently collaborates with other researchers in their field. Notable co-authors include:

  • Kurt Svärdsudd
  • Kok Wai Giang
  • Per-Olof Hansson
  • Zackarias Mandalenakis
  • Carina U. Persson

Their publications appear regularly in certain venues such as:

  • Journal of Hypertension
  • UNC Libraries
  • CHEST Critical Care

Best Publications

  • Randomised trial of cholesterol lowering in 4444 patients with coronary heart disease: the Scandinavian Simvastatin Survival Study (4S)

    A.G. Olsson;J McMurray;G Thorgeirsson;C Spaulding

  • Estimation of ten-year risk of fatal cardiovascular disease in Europe: the SCORE project

    S. Sans;A. Menotti;G. De Backer;D. De Bacquer

  • Secondary prevention of macrovascular events in patients with type 2 diabetes in the PROactive Study (PROspective pioglitAzone Clinical Trial In macroVascular Events): a randomised controlled trial.

    John A. Dormandy;Bernard Charbonnel;David J A Eckland;Erland Erdmann

  • Abdominal adipose tissue distribution, obesity, and risk of cardiovascular disease and death: 13 year follow up of participants in the study of men born in 1913.

    B Larsson;K Svärdsudd;L Welin;L Wilhelmsen

  • Fibrinogen as a Risk Factor for Stroke and Myocardial Infarction

    Lars Wilhelmsen;Kurt Svärdsudd;Kristoffer Korsan-Bengtsen;Bo Larsson

  • ISIS-4: a randomised factorial trial assessing early oral captopril, oral mononitrate, and intravenous magnesium sulphate in 58,050 patients with suspected acute myocardial infarction. ISIS-4 (Fourth International Study of Infarct Survival) Collaborative Group.

    R Collins;R Peto;M Flather;S Parish

  • The International Stroke Trial (IST): A randomised trial of aspirin, subcutaneous heparin, both, or neither among 19 435 patients with acute ischaemic stroke

    P Sandercock;R Collins;C Counsell;B Farrell

  • Plasma fibrinogen level and the risk of major cardiovascular diseases and nonvascular mortality: an individual participant meta-analysis.

    J Danesh;S Lewington;S G Thompson;Lowe Gdo.

  • Hormones regulating cardiovascular function in patients with severe congestive heart failure and their relation to mortality. CONSENSUS Trial Study Group.

    K Swedberg;P Eneroth;J Kjekshus;L Wilhelmsen

  • Effect on mortality of metoprolol in acute myocardial infarction. A double-blind randomised trial.

    Å Hjalmarson;Johan Herlitz;I Málek;L Rydén

  • The Influence of Body Fat Distribution on the Incidence of Diabetes Mellitus: 13.5 Years of Follow-up of the Participants in the Study of Men Born in 1913

    L O Ohlson;B Larsson;K Svärdsudd;L Welin

  • C-Reactive Protein, Fibrinogen, and Cardiovascular Disease Prediction

    Stephen Kaptoge;Emanuele Di Angelantonio;Lisa Pennells;Angela M. Wood

  • 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

  • Association of Cardiometabolic Multimorbidity With Mortality

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

  • Lipoprotein Changes and Reduction in the Incidence of Major Coronary Heart Disease Events in the Scandinavian Simvastatin Survival Study (4S)

    Terje R. Pedersen;Anders G. Olsson;Ole Færgeman;John Kjekshus

  • Lipoprotein (a) and coronary heart disease: a prospective case-control study in a general population sample of middle aged men.

    A Rosengren;L Wilhelmsen;E Eriksson;B Risberg

  • Efficacy and safety of statin therapy in older people: a meta-analysis of individual participant data from 28 randomised controlled trials

    Jane Armitage;Colin Baigent;Elizabeth Barnes;D John Betteridge

  • Cardiovascular disease, chronic kidney disease, and diabetes mortality burden of cardiometabolic risk factors from 1980 to 2010: a comparative risk assessment.

    Goodarz Danaei;Yuan Lu;Gitanjali M. Singh;Emily Carnahan

  • Beta-blockers versus diuretics in hypertensive men: main results from the HAPPHY trial.

    Lars Wilhelmsen;Göran Berglund;Dag Elmfeldt;Timothy Fitzsimons

  • Randomised trial of cholesterol lowering in 4444 patients with coronary heart disease: the Scandinavian Simvastatin Survival Study (4S)

    Terje R Pedersen

Frequent Co-Authors

Annika Rosengren
Annika Rosengren Sahlgrenska University Hospital
Hans Wedel
Hans Wedel University of Gothenburg
Göran Berglund
Göran Berglund Lund University
Karl Swedberg
Karl Swedberg University of Gothenburg
Terje R. Pedersen
Terje R. Pedersen Oslo University Hospital
Tom Meade
Tom Meade London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
John Danesh
John Danesh University of Cambridge
John Kjekshus
John Kjekshus University of Oslo
Mark Woodward
Mark Woodward Imperial College London
Kalevi Pyörälä
Kalevi Pyörälä University of Eastern Finland

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