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Niels Møller

Niels Møller

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Medicine

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102
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56234
World Ranking
7514
National Ranking
82

Overview

Niels Møller is a researcher affiliated with Aarhus University in Denmark, whose work primarily centers on medicine with a strong focus on physiology, endocrinology, diabetes, metabolism, and cardiovascular medicine. Their research spans several subfields, including physiology, endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, surgery, and cell biology. The scientist's investigations cover a range of topics related to diet, metabolism, muscle nutrition, diabetes treatment, cardiovascular function, and adipose tissue metabolism.

Their notable publications include:

  • Ketone Body, 3-Hydroxybutyrate: Minor Metabolite - Major Medical Manifestations (2020), The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
  • A macrophage-hepatocyte glucocorticoid receptor axis coordinates fasting ketogenesis (2022), Cell Metabolism
  • Cardiovascular Effects of Oral Ketone Ester Treatment in Patients With Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction: A Randomized, Controlled, Double-Blind Trial (2024), Circulation
  • SGLT2 Inhibition Does Not Affect Myocardial Fatty Acid Oxidation or Uptake, but Reduces Myocardial Glucose Uptake and Blood Flow in Individuals With Type 2 Diabetes: A Randomized Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Crossover Trial (2020), Diabetes
  • Beneficial Effects of Ketone Ester in Patients With Cardiogenic Shock (2023), JACC Heart Failure

Their frequent coauthors include Nikolaj Rittig, Niels Jessen, Lars Christian Gormsen, Esben Søndergaard, and Mads Svart.

The scientist has contributed repeatedly to several key publication venues, particularly The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, Diabetes, Journal of the American Heart Association, Physiological Reports, and Diabetologia. These journals reflect the areas of clinical endocrinology, metabolism, diabetes management, cardiovascular research, and physiological studies that are central to their work.

Main topics covered in their research portfolio highlight:

  • Diet and metabolism studies
  • Muscle metabolism and nutrition
  • Diet, metabolism, and disease
  • Diabetes treatment and management
  • Cardiovascular function and risk factors
  • Adipose tissue and metabolism
  • Pancreatic function and diabetes

With a research output that includes over 147 publications in medicine and a substantial number within subfields such as physiology and endocrinology, Niels Møller's scientific contributions intersect multiple biomedical disciplines related to metabolic and cardiovascular 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 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 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

  • High affinity VEGF binding and developmental expression suggest Flk-1 as a major regulator of vasculogenesis and angiogenesis.

    Birgit Millauer;Susanne Wizigmann-Voos;Harald Schnürch;Ricardo Martinez

  • A century of trends in adult human height

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

  • Effects of growth hormone on glucose, lipid, and protein metabolism in human subjects.

    Niels Møller;Jens Otto Lunde Jørgensen

  • Structural and Evolutionary Relationships among Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase Domains

    Jannik N. Andersen;Ole H. Mortensen;Günther H. Peters;Paul G. Drake

  • High-Dose Resveratrol Supplementation in Obese Men: An Investigator-Initiated, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Clinical Trial of Substrate Metabolism, Insulin Sensitivity, and Body Composition

    Morten Møller Poulsen;Poul F. Vestergaard;Berthil Frederik Forrest Clasen;Yulia Radko

  • The effects of physical activity and exercise on brain‐derived neurotrophic factor in healthy humans: A review

    T Huang;K T Larsen;M Ried-Larsen;N C Møller

  • ERK6, a mitogen-activated protein kinase involved in C2C12 myoblast differentiation

    Cornelia Lechner;Muayad A. Zahalka;Jean-Francois Giot;Niels Peter H. Moller

  • In Alzheimer's Disease, 6-Month Treatment with GLP-1 Analog Prevents Decline of Brain Glucose Metabolism: Randomized, Placebo-Controlled, Double-Blind Clinical Trial.

    Michael Gejl;Albert Gjedde;Lærke Egefjord;Lærke Egefjord;Arne Møller

  • A genomic perspective on protein tyrosine phosphatases: gene structure, pseudogenes, and genetic disease linkage.

    Jannik N Andersen;Peter G Jansen;Søren M Echwald;Ole H Mortensen

  • 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

  • Modulators of protein tyrosine phosphatases (PTPases)

    Niels Peter Hundahl Møller;Henrik Sune Andersen;Lars Fogh Iversen;Ole Hvilsted Olsen

  • Dissecting adipose tissue lipolysis: molecular regulation and implications for metabolic disease

    Thomas Svava Nielsen;Niels Jessen;Jens Otto Lunde Jørgensen;Niels Møller

  • Variations in accelerometry measured physical activity and sedentary time across Europe - harmonized analyses of 47,497 children and adolescents

    Jostein Steene-Johannessen;Bjørge Hermann Hansen;Knut Eirik Dalene;Elin Kolle

  • Cardiovascular Effects of Treatment With the Ketone Body 3-Hydroxybutyrate in Chronic Heart Failure Patients

    Roni Nielsen;Niels Møller;Niels Møller;Lars C. Gormsen;Lars C. Gormsen;Lars Poulsen Tolbod

  • Effects of cortisol on lipolysis and regional interstitial glycerol levels in humans.

    C. B. Djurhuus;C. H. Gravholt;S. Nielsen;A. Mengel

  • Effects of a growth hormone pulse on total and forearm substrate fluxes in humans.

    N. Møller;J. O. L. Jørgensen;O. Schmitz;J. Møller

Frequent Co-Authors

Jens Otto Lunde Jørgensen
Jens Otto Lunde Jørgensen Aarhus University Hospital
Lars Bo Andersen
Lars Bo Andersen University of Bergen
Ole Schmitz
Ole Schmitz Aarhus University Hospital
Steen B. Pedersen
Steen B. Pedersen Aarhus University Hospital
Jens Sandahl Christiansen
Jens Sandahl Christiansen Aarhus University Hospital
Hans Ørskov
Hans Ørskov Aarhus University Hospital
Jan Frystyk
Jan Frystyk Odense University Hospital
Hans Erik Bøtker
Hans Erik Bøtker Aarhus University Hospital
Luís B. Sardinha
Luís B. Sardinha University of Lisbon
Ulf Ekelund
Ulf Ekelund Norwegian School of Sport Sciences

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