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2023

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  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Spain Leader Award

Overview

Lluis Serra-Majem is affiliated with the Instituto de Salud Carlos III in Spain. Their research spans a broad spectrum within Medicine, with a focus on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Physiology, Nutrition and Dietetics, Molecular Biology, and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine.

Their work covers several main topics including:

  • Nutritional Studies and Diet
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Diet and Metabolism Studies
  • Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling
  • Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies
  • Physical Activity and Health
  • Health and Lifestyle Studies

Recently published papers by Lluis Serra-Majem include:

  • Updating the Mediterranean Diet Pyramid towards Sustainability: Focus on Environmental Concerns, 2020, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Remnant Cholesterol, Not LDL Cholesterol, Is Associated With Incident Cardiovascular Disease, 2020, Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  • Patterns of Change in Dietary Habits and Physical Activity during Lockdown in Spain Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, 2021, Nutrients
  • Validity of the energy-restricted Mediterranean Diet Adherence Screener, 2021, Clinical Nutrition
  • Leisure-Time Physical Activity, Sedentary Behaviour and Diet Quality are Associated with Metabolic Syndrome Severity: The PREDIMED-Plus Study, 2020, Nutrients

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Lluis Serra-Majem include:

  • Jordi Salas-Salvadó
  • Ramón Estruch
  • Emilio Ros
  • Dolores Corella
  • Montserrat Fitó

The scientist has published extensively in specific venues, reflecting the focus of their research. These frequent publication outlets are:

  • Nutrients (23 publications)
  • Molecular Nutrition & Food Research (6 publications)
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (4 publications)
  • Clinical Nutrition (4 publications)
  • American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (4 publications)

In addition to research articles, Lluis Serra-Majem has contributed to book publications, including a recent title published by Frontiers Media:

  • Food-Based Dietary Guidelines, 2025

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

  • Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease with a Mediterranean Diet

    Ramón Estruch;Emilio Ros;Jordi Salas-Salvadó;Maria-Isabel Covas

  • Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease with a Mediterranean Diet Supplemented with Extra-Virgin Olive Oil or Nuts

    Miguel A Martínez-González;Emilio Ros;Ramón Estruch

  • Mediterranean diet pyramid today. Science and cultural updates

    Anna Bach-Faig;Elliot M Berry;Denis Lairon;Joan Reguant

  • Food, youth and the Mediterranean diet in Spain. Development of KIDMED, Mediterranean Diet Quality Index in children and adolescents

    Lluís Serra-Majem;Lourdes Ribas;Joy Ngo;Rosa M Ortega

  • A Short Screener Is Valid for Assessing Mediterranean Diet Adherence among Older Spanish Men and Women

    Helmut Schröder;Montserrat Fitó;Ramón Estruch;Miguel Ángel Martínez-González

  • A 14-Item Mediterranean Diet Assessment Tool and Obesity Indexes among High-Risk Subjects: The PREDIMED Trial

    Miguel Angel Martínez-González;Miguel Angel Martínez-González;Ana García-Arellano;Ana García-Arellano;Estefanía Toledo;Estefanía Toledo;Jordi Salas-Salvadó

  • Prevalencia de obesidad en España

    Javier Aranceta-Bartrina;Lluís Serra-Majem;Màrius Foz-Sala;Basilio Moreno-Esteban

  • Scientific Evidence of Interventions Using the Mediterranean Diet: a Systematic Review

    Lluís Serra-Majem;Blanca Roman;Ramón Estruch

  • Cohort Profile: Design and methods of the PREDIMED study

    Miguel Ángel Martínez-González;Dolores Corella;Jordi Salas-Salvadó;Emilio Ros

  • Prevention of Diabetes With Mediterranean Diets: A Subgroup Analysis of a Randomized Trial

    Jordi Salas-Salvadó;Mònica Bulló;Ramón Estruch;Emilio Ros

  • 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

  • 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

  • Television food advertising to children: a global perspective.

    Bridget Kelly;Jason C.G. Halford;Emma J. Boyland;Kathy Chapman

  • Mediterranean Diet and Invasive Breast Cancer Risk Among Women at High Cardiovascular Risk in the PREDIMED Trial: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

    Estefanía Toledo;Estefanía Toledo;Jordi Salas-Salvadó;Carolina Donat-Vargas;Carolina Donat-Vargas;Pilar Buil-Cosiales

  • The use of indexes evaluating the adherence to the Mediterranean diet in epidemiological studies: a review.

    Anna Bach;Lluís Serra-Majem;Josep L Carrasco;Blanca Roman

  • Obesity and the Mediterranean diet: a systematic review of observational and intervention studies

    G. Buckland;A. Bach;L. Serra-Majem;L. Serra-Majem

  • Overweight and obesity in infants and pre-school children in the European Union: a review of existing data

    A Cattaneo;L Monasta;E Stamatakis;S Lioret

  • Olive oil intake and risk of cardiovascular disease and mortality in the PREDIMED Study

    Marta Guasch-Ferré;Marta Guasch-Ferré;Frank B Hu;Miguel A Martínez-González;Miguel A Martínez-González;Montserrat Fitó

  • Mediterranean dietary pattern and depression: the PREDIMED randomized trial

    Almudena Sánchez-Villegas;Almudena Sánchez-Villegas;Miguel Angel Martínez-González;Miguel Angel Martínez-González;Ramón Estruch;Ramón Estruch;Jordi Salas-Salvadó

Frequent Co-Authors

Ramón Estruch
Ramón Estruch University of Barcelona
Dolores Corella
Dolores Corella University of Valencia
Miguel A. Martínez-González
Miguel A. Martínez-González University of Navarra
Emilio Ros
Emilio Ros University of Barcelona
Jordi Salas-Salvadó
Jordi Salas-Salvadó Rovira i Virgili University
Enrique Gómez-Gracia
Enrique Gómez-Gracia University of Malaga
Xavier Pintó
Xavier Pintó Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Miquel Fiol
Miquel Fiol Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Mònica Bulló
Mònica Bulló Rovira i Virgili University
Montserrat Fitó
Montserrat Fitó Institut Hospital del Mar d'Investigacions Mèdiques

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