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Martin Bobak is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research predominantly focuses on medicine, with particular expertise in subfields such as cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, health, public health, environmental and occupational health, general health professions, and epidemiology.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics including:

  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Cardiovascular health and risk factors
  • Blood pressure and hypertension studies
  • Nutritional studies and diet
  • Obesity, physical activity, and diet
  • Global health care issues
  • Employment and welfare studies

Martin Bobak has coauthored numerous publications with frequent collaborators such as Hynek Pikhart, Sofia Malyutina, Andrzej Pająk, Abdonas Tamošiūnas, and Naděžda Čapková.

Their work appears regularly in a range of publication venues, including:

  • European Journal of Public Health
  • Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
  • European Journal of Preventive Cardiology
  • European Heart Journal
  • BMC Public Health

Among notable papers published by Martin Bobak are:

  • "SCORE2 risk prediction algorithms: new models to estimate 10-year risk of cardiovascular disease in Europe" (2021) in European Heart Journal
  • "Global Effect of Modifiable Risk Factors on Cardiovascular Disease and Mortality" (2023) in New England Journal of Medicine
  • "Education and wealth inequalities in healthy ageing in eight harmonised cohorts in the ATHLOS consortium: a population-based study" (2020) in The Lancet Public Health
  • "Development of a common scale for measuring healthy ageing across the world: results from the ATHLOS consortium" (2020) in International Journal of Epidemiology
  • "Job loss and lower healthcare utilisation due to COVID-19 among older adults across 27 European countries" (2021) in Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health

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

  • 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

  • The interleukin-6 receptor as a target for prevention of coronary heart disease: a mendelian randomisation analysis.

    D I Swerdlow;M V Holmes;K B Kuchenbaecker

  • Ambient air pollution and pregnancy outcomes: a review of the literature.

    Radim J. Šrám;Blanka Binková;Jan Dejmek;Martin Bobak

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

    Steven Hageman;Lisa Pennells

  • Association between alcohol and cardiovascular disease:Mendelian randomisation analysis based on individual participant data

    Michael V Holmes;Michael V Holmes;Caroline E Dale;Luisa Zuccolo;Richard J Silverwood

  • HMG-coenzyme A reductase inhibition, type 2 diabetes, and bodyweight: evidence from genetic analysis and randomised trials.

    Daniel I Swerdlow;David Preiss;Karoline B Kuchenbaecker;Michael Holmes

  • 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

  • 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

  • Socioeconomic factors, material inequalities, and perceived control in self-rated health: cross-sectional data from seven post-communist countries.

    Martin Bobak;Hynek Pikhart;Richard Rose;Clyde Hertzman

  • Outdoor air pollution, low birth weight, and prematurity.

    Martin Bobak

  • Socioeconomic factors, perceived control and self-reported health in Russia. A cross-sectional survey.

    Martin Bobak;Hynek Pikhart;Clyde Hertzman;Richard Rose

  • East-West mortality divide and its potential explanations: Proposed research agenda

    Martin Bobak;Michael Marmot

  • 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

  • Job insecurity and health: A study of 16 European countries

    Krisztina D. László;Hynek Pikhart;Mária S. Kopp;Martin Bobak

  • Vitamin D and mortality: meta-analysis of individual participant data from a large consortium of cohort studies from Europe and the United States

    Ben Schöttker;Rolf Jorde;Rolf Jorde;Anne Peasey;Barbara Thorand

  • HMG-COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITION, TYPE 2 DIABETES, AND BODYWEIGHT: EVIDENCE FROM GENETIC ANALYSIS AND RANDOMISED TRIALS

    D Swerdlow;D Preiss;A D Hingorani;N Sattar

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Marmot
Michael Marmot University College London
Martin McKee
Martin McKee London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Kari Kuulasmaa
Kari Kuulasmaa Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
Michael V. Holmes
Michael V. Holmes University of Oxford
Stefan Söderberg
Stefan Söderberg Umeå University
Hermann Brenner
Hermann Brenner German Cancer Research Center
Licia Iacoviello
Licia Iacoviello University of Insubria
Richard Rose
Richard Rose University of Strathclyde
Seppo Koskinen
Seppo Koskinen Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
Antonia Trichopoulou
Antonia Trichopoulou National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

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