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2023

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  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Switzerland Leader Award

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Oscar H. Franco is affiliated with University Medical Center Utrecht in the Netherlands. Their research output spans the field of Medicine, with a significant focus on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Genetics, Physiology, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

The scientist's work covers diverse topics, including Nutritional Studies and Diet, Health Disparities and Outcomes, Cardiac Health and Mental Health, Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, COVID-19 Epidemiological Studies, Climate Change and Health Impacts, and Obesity, Physical Activity, and Diet.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Oscar H. Franco include:

  • Taulant Muka
  • Marija Glišić
  • Beatrice Minder
  • André G. Uitterlinden
  • Peter Francis Raguindin

Publications by this researcher have appeared in various venues such as:

  • UNC Libraries
  • Maturitas
  • European Journal of Preventive Cardiology
  • European Heart Journal
  • European Journal of Epidemiology

Representative recent papers authored or coauthored include:

  • "2021 ESC Guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice," 2021, European Heart Journal
  • "Associations of healthy lifestyle and socioeconomic status with mortality and incident cardiovascular disease: two prospective cohort studies," 2021, BMJ
  • "COVID-19 in Health-Care Workers: A Living Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Prevalence, Risk Factors, Clinical Characteristics, and Outcomes," 2020, American Journal of Epidemiology
  • "Healthy lifestyle and life expectancy free of cancer, cardiovascular disease, and type 2 diabetes: prospective cohort study," 2020, BMJ
  • "2021 ESC Guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice," 2021, European Journal of Preventive Cardiology

Oscar H. Franco's research involves comprehensive epidemiological and clinical investigations, emphasizing cardiovascular disease prevention and lifestyle impacts on health outcomes. The collaboration network and publication venues suggest active engagement with multidisciplinary teams and high-impact journals within cardiovascular and public health domains.

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

  • 2021 ESC Guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice

    Frank L J Visseren;François Mach;Yvo M Smulders;David Carballo

  • Body-mass index and all-cause mortality: individual-participant-data meta-analysis of 239 prospective studies in four continents

    Emanuele Di Angelantonio;Shilpa N Bhupathiraju;David Wormser;Pei Gao;Pei Gao

  • 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 comprehensive 1000 Genomes–based genome-wide association meta-analysis of coronary artery disease

    M Nikpay;A Goel;Won H-H.;L M Hall

  • Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology

    Adam E. Locke;Bratati Kahali;Sonja I. Berndt;Anne E. Justice

  • Projections on the number of individuals with atrial fibrillation in the European Union, from 2000 to 2060

    Bouwe P. Krijthe;Anton Kunst;Emelia J. Benjamin;Gregory Y.H. Lip

  • Association of Dietary, Circulating, and Supplement Fatty Acids With Coronary Risk: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

    Rajiv Chowdhury;Samantha Warnakula;Setor Kunutsor;Francesca Crowe

  • Fine-mapping type 2 diabetes loci to single-variant resolution using high-density imputation and islet-specific epigenome maps.

    Anubha Mahajan;Daniel Taliun;Matthias Thurner;Neil R. Robertson

  • Genetic analysis of over 1 million people identifies 535 new loci associated with blood pressure traits.

    Evangelos Evangelou;Evangelos Evangelou;Helen R. Warren;Helen R. Warren;David Mosen-Ansorena;Borbala Mifsud

  • Public health benefits of strategies to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions: urban land transport

    James Woodcock;Phil Edwards;Cathryn Tonne;Ben G Armstrong

  • A century of trends in adult human height

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

  • The Rotterdam Study: Objectives and design update

    Albert Hofman;Guy G. O. Brusselle;Sarwa Darwish Murad;Cornelia M. van Duijn

  • 2016 European Guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice: The Sixth Joint Task Force of the European Society of Cardiology and Other Societies on Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Clinical Practice (constituted by representatives of 10 societies and by invited experts): Developed with the special contribution of the European Association for Cardiovascular Prevention & Rehabilitation (EACPR).

    Massimo F. Piepoli;Arno W. Hoes

  • Optimal database combinations for literature searches in systematic reviews: a prospective exploratory study.

    Wichor M. Bramer;Melissa L. Rethlefsen;Jos Kleijnen;Jos Kleijnen;Oscar H. Franco

  • Modulation of genetic associations with serum urate levels by body-mass-index in humans

    Jennifer E. Huffman;Eva Albrecht;Alexander Teumer;Massimo Mangino

  • Novel genetic associations for blood pressure identified via gene-alcohol interaction in up to 570K individuals across multiple ancestries

    Mary F. Feitosa;Aldi T. Kraja;Daniel I. Chasman;Yun J. Sung

  • A comprehensive 1000 Genomes-based genome-wide association meta-analysis of coronary artery disease

    Majid Nikpay;Anuj Goel;Hong-Hee Won;Leanne M. Hall

Frequent Co-Authors

Albert Hofman
Albert Hofman Harvard University
Abbas Dehghan
Abbas Dehghan Imperial College London
M. Arfan Ikram
M. Arfan Ikram Erasmus University Rotterdam
André G. Uitterlinden
André G. Uitterlinden Erasmus University Rotterdam
Bruce M. Psaty
Bruce M. Psaty University of Washington
Eric Boerwinkle
Eric Boerwinkle The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Vincent W. V. Jaddoe
Vincent W. V. Jaddoe Erasmus University Rotterdam
Daniel I. Chasman
Daniel I. Chasman Brigham and Women's Hospital
Fernando Rivadeneira
Fernando Rivadeneira Erasmus University Rotterdam
Jerome I. Rotter
Jerome I. Rotter UCLA Medical Center

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