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Mayowa O. Owolabi

Mayowa O. Owolabi

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Medicine
Nigeria
2025

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  • 2025 - Research.com Medicine in Nigeria Leader Award

Overview

Mayowa O. Owolabi is affiliated with the University of Ibadan in Nigeria and has a significant research portfolio focused on cardiovascular and neurological health. Their work spans various fields within medicine, with a particular emphasis on epidemiology, rehabilitation, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, public health, and psychiatry and mental health.

Their main topics of research include:

  • Acute Ischemic Stroke Management
  • Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
  • Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies
  • Ethics in Clinical Research
  • Nutritional Studies and Diet

Frequent co-authors with whom they have collaborated include:

  • Rufus Akinyemi
  • Fred Stephen Sarfo
  • Albert Akpalu
  • Kolawole Wahab
  • Reginald Obiako

Owolabi's recent papers illustrate the focus and scope of their research efforts. These notable publications include:

  • "Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990-2019" (2020), published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  • "Pragmatic solutions to reduce the global burden of stroke: a World Stroke Organization-Lancet Neurology Commission" (2023), published in The Lancet Neurology
  • "Global Stroke Statistics 2019" (2020), published in the International Journal of Stroke
  • "Global stroke statistics 2022" (2022), published in the International Journal of Stroke
  • "Stroke in Africa: profile, progress, prospects and priorities" (2021), published in Nature Reviews Neurology

Their published research has appeared predominantly in the following venues:

  • Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases
  • Journal of the Neurological Sciences
  • Stroke
  • International Journal of Stroke
  • Neurology

Owolabi's work primarily falls under the broad field of medicine with 334 publications accounted for in this area. Within this, epidemiology comprises a substantial portion, with 82 related publications. Rehabilitation, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, public health, and psychiatry and mental health are notable subfields contributing to the scope of their research output.

Best Publications

  • Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 328 diseases and injuries for 195 countries, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    Theo Vos;Amanuel Alemu Abajobir;Kalkidan Hassen Abate;Cristiana Abbafati

  • Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    Theo Vos;Theo Vos;Theo Vos;Stephen S. Lim;Cristiana Abbafati;Cristiana Abbafati;Cristiana Abbafati;Kaja M. Abbas;Kaja M. Abbas;Kaja M. Abbas

  • Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, andyears lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematicanalysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    Gbd Disease;Injury Incidence;Lorenzo Monasta

  • Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019: Update From the GBD 2019 Study

    Gregory A. Roth;George A. Mensah;Catherine O. Johnson;Giovanni Addolorato

  • Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    Gregory A Roth;Gregory A Roth;Degu Abate;Kalkidan Hassen Abate;Solomon M Abay

  • Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    Christopher J.L. Murray;Christopher J.L. Murray;Christopher J.L. Murray;Aleksandr Y. Aravkin;Aleksandr Y. Aravkin;Aleksandr Y. Aravkin;Peng Zheng;Peng Zheng;Peng Zheng;Cristiana Abbafati;Cristiana Abbafati;Cristiana Abbafati

  • Global, regional, and national burden of stroke and its risk factors, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    Valery L Feigin;Benjamin A Stark;Catherine Owens Johnson;Gregory A Roth

  • Health Effects of Overweight and Obesity in 195 Countries over 25 Years.

    Ashkan Afshin;Mohammad Forouzanfar;Marissa Reitsma;Patrick Sur

  • Mild therapeutic hypothermia to improve the neurologic outcome after cardiac arrest

    Michael Holzer;Fritz Sterz;J. M. Darby;S. A. Padosch

  • Global, regional, and national burden of chronic kidney disease, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    Boris Bikbov;Caroline A. Purcell;Andrew S. Levey;Mari Smith

  • Global, regional, and national cancer incidence, mortality, years of life lost, years lived with disability, and disability-adjusted life-years for 29 cancer groups, 1990 to 2017

    Christina Fitzmaurice;Degu Abate;Naghmeh Abbasi;Hedayat Abbastabar

  • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 84 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017 : a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    Jeffrey D. Stanaway;Ashkan Afshin;Emmanuela Gakidou;Stephen S. Lim

  • Global, regional, and national burden of neurological disorders, 1990-2016: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    Valery L Feigin;Amanuel Alemu Abajobir;Kalkidan Hassen Abate;Foad Abd-Allah

  • Global, regional, and national burden of cardiovascular diseases for 10 causes, 1990 to 2015

    Gregory A. Roth;Catherine Johnson;Amanuel Abajobir;Foad Abd-Allah

  • Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) for 333 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    Simon I Hay;Amanuel Alemu Abajobir;Kalkidan Hassen Abate;Cristiana Abbafati

  • Alcohol use and burden for 195 countries and territories, 1990-2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    Max G Griswold;Nancy Fullman;Caitlin Hawley;Nicholas Arian

  • Global, regional, and national burden of stroke, 1990-2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    Catherine Owens Johnson;Minh Nguyen;Gregory A. Roth;Emma Nichols

  • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 84 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    Amanuel Alemu Abajobir;Kalkidan Hassen Abate;Cristiana Abbafati;Kaja M. Abbas

  • Global, regional, and national burden of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, 1990-2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    Emma Nichols;Cassandra E.I. Szoeke;Stein Emil Vollset;Nooshin Abbasi

  • Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) for 333 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 195 countries and territories, 1990-2016

    Simon I. Hay;Amanuel Alemu Abajobir;Kalkidan Hassen Abate;Cristiana Abbafati

Frequent Co-Authors

Bruce Ovbiagele
Bruce Ovbiagele University of California, San Francisco
Simon I. Hay
Simon I. Hay University of Washington
Rakhi Dandona
Rakhi Dandona Public Health Foundation of India
Christopher J L Murray
Christopher J L Murray University of Washington
Shafiu Mohammed
Shafiu Mohammed Ahmadu Bello University
Benn Sartorius
Benn Sartorius University of Oxford
Ali H. Mokdad
Ali H. Mokdad University of Washington
Valery L. Feigin
Valery L. Feigin Auckland University of Technology
Andrew T Olagunju
Andrew T Olagunju University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Florian Fischer
Florian Fischer Charité - University Medicine Berlin

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