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  • 2026 - Research.com Medicine in Brazil Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Medicine in Brazil Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Brazil Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Medicine in Brazil Leader Award

Overview

Paulo A. Lotufo is a researcher affiliated with the Universidade de São Paulo in Brazil, with a primary focus on medicine and its intersecting subfields. Their work spans multiple disciplines, including cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, public health, environmental and occupational health, endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, physiology, and epidemiology. This diversified interest is reflected in their extensive publication record in these areas.

The scientist has contributed significantly to key topics within medical research. Their main areas of study include nutritional studies and diet, obesity, physical activity, and diet, cardiovascular health and disease prevention, blood pressure and hypertension studies, diabetes, cardiovascular risks and lipoproteins, thyroid disorders and treatments, and cardiovascular disease and adiposity.

Paulo A. Lotufo has published numerous papers in high-profile journals, including the following notable recent works:

  • Global prevalence and burden of depressive and anxiety disorders in 204 countries and territories in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic (2021, The Lancet)
  • Development and Validation of an Index Based on EAT-Lancet Recommendations: The Planetary Health Diet Index (2021, Nutrients)
  • Adherence to the Planetary Health Diet Index and Obesity Indicators in the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil) (2021, Nutrients)
  • Association Between Consumption of Ultraprocessed Foods and Cognitive Decline (2022, JAMA Neurology)
  • Prevalence and risk factors of psychiatric symptoms and diagnoses before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: findings from the ELSA-Brasil COVID-19 mental health cohort (2021, Psychological Medicine)

Their research output is regularly published in leading scientific venues, with significant contributions to journals such as Circulation, Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia, Alzheimer's & Dementia, Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research, and the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

Frequent coauthors include Isabela M. Benseñor, Itamar S Santos, Alessandra C. Goulart, Márcio Sommer Bittencourt, and another mention of Isabela M Benseñor, illustrating a sustained collaborative network in their scientific community.

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 prevalence of overweight and obesity in children and adults during 1980–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Marie Ng;Tom P Fleming;Margaret W. Robinson;Blake Thomson

  • 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

  • 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

  • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990-2013: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Mohammad H Forouzanfar;Lily Alexander;H Ross Anderson;Victoria F Bachman

  • Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 301 acute and chronic diseases and injuries in 188 countries, 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Theo Vos;Ryan M. Barber;Brad Bell;Amelia Bertozzi-Villa

  • Global, regional, and national age-sex specific all-cause and cause-specific mortality for 240 causes of death, 1990-2013: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Mohsen Naghavi;Haidong Wang;Rafael Lozano;Adrian Davis

  • Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 310 diseases and injuries, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015

    Theo Vos;Christine Allen;Megha Arora;Ryan M Barber

  • 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 life expectancy, all-cause mortality, and cause-specific mortality for 249 causes of death, 1980–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015

    Haidong Wang;Mohsen Naghavi;Christine Allen;Ryan M Barber

  • 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

  • Health effects of dietary risks in 195 countries, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    Ashkan Afshin;Patrick John Sur;Kairsten A. Fay;Leslie Cornaby

  • 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 age-sex specific mortality for 264 causes of death, 1980–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    Mohsen Naghavi;Amanuel Alemu Abajobir;Cristiana Abbafati;Kaja M Abbas

  • Global prevalence and burden of depressive and anxiety disorders in 204 countries and territories in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Damian F Santomauro;Ana M Mantilla Herrera;Jamileh Shadid;Peng Zheng

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Isabela M. Benseñor
Isabela M. Benseñor Universidade de São Paulo
Andre R. Brunoni
Andre R. Brunoni Universidade de São Paulo
Bruce Bartholow Duncan
Bruce Bartholow Duncan Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Alexandre C. Pereira
Alexandre C. Pereira Universidade de São Paulo
Jost B. Jonas
Jost B. Jonas Heidelberg University
Ted R. Miller
Ted R. Miller Pacific Institute
Simon I. Hay
Simon I. Hay University of Washington
Ferrán Catalá-López
Ferrán Catalá-López Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Sadaf G. Sepanlou
Sadaf G. Sepanlou Tehran University of Medical Sciences
Maria Inês Schmidt
Maria Inês Schmidt Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul

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