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Pedro Curi Hallal is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research mainly focuses on the broad field of Medicine, with significant contributions in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Physiology, Infectious Diseases, General Health Professions, and Education.

The main topics explored in their scientific work include:

  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Physical Activity and Health
  • Children's Physical and Motor Development
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • Health and Lifestyle Studies
  • Urban Transport and Accessibility

Pedro Curi Hallal has published extensively across several scientific journals. The frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Physical Activity and Health
  • Revista Brasileira de Atividade Física & Saúde
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Ciência & Saúde Coletiva
  • Revista de Saúde Pública

The scientist has collaborated often with several coauthors, including:

  • Mariângela Freitas da Silveira
  • Marlos Rodrigues Domingues
  • Aluísio J. D. Barros
  • Andrea Ramírez Varela
  • Grégore Iven Mielke

Selected recent papers by Pedro Curi Hallal reflect a variety of public health and epidemiological issues:

  • "Physical Activity Promotion and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals: Building Synergies to Maximize Impact," 2021, Journal of Physical Activity and Health
  • "O que é urgente e necessário para subsidiar as políticas de enfrentamento da pandemia de COVID-19 no Brasil?", 2020, Revista Brasileira de Epidemiologia
  • "Missed childhood immunizations during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil: Analyses of routine statistics and of a national household survey," 2021, Vaccine
  • "Joint association between accelerometry-measured daily combination of time spent in physical activity, sedentary behaviour and sleep and all-cause mortality: a pooled analysis of six prospective cohorts using compositional analysis," 2021, British Journal of Sports Medicine
  • "Gender differences in the distribution of children's physical activity: evidence from nine countries," 2023, International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity

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

  • The Worldwide Prevalence of ADHD: A Systematic Review and Metaregression Analysis

    Guilherme Vanoni Polanczyk;Maurício Silva de Lima;Bernardo Lessa Horta;Joseph Biederman

  • Global physical activity levels: surveillance progress, pitfalls, and prospects

    Pedro C. Hallal;Lars Bo Andersen;Lars Bo Andersen;Fiona C. Bull;Regina Guthold

  • 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

  • Maternal and child undernutrition: consequences for adult health and human capital.

    Cesar G. Victora;Linda S Adair;Caroline H.D. Fall;Pedro C. Hallal

  • 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 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

  • Worldwide Timing of Growth Faltering: Revisiting Implications for Interventions

    Cesar Gomes Victora;Mercedes de Onis;Pedro Curi Hallal;Monika Blössner

  • Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in five Latin American cities (the PLATINO study): a prevalence study

    Ana Maria B Menezes;Rogelio Perez-Padilla;José Roberto B Jardim;Adriana Muiño

  • A century of trends in adult human height

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

  • Long-term consequences of breastfeeding on cholesterol, obesity, systolic blood pressure and type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    Bernardo L. Horta;Christian Loret de Mola;Cesar G. Victora

  • Adolescent physical activity and health: a systematic review.

    Pedro C. Hallal;Cesar G. Victora;Mario R. Azevedo;Jonathan C. K. Wells

  • 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

  • Progress in physical activity over the Olympic quadrennium

    James F. Sallis;Fiona C Bull;Regina Guthold;Gregory W. Heath

  • Association between breastfeeding and intelligence, educational attainment, and income at 30 years of age: a prospective birth cohort study from Brazil

    Cesar G. Victora;Bernardo L. Horta;Christian Loret de Mola;Luciana de Avila Quevedo

  • Shaping cities for health: complexity and the planning of urban environments in the 21st century

    Yvonne Rydin;Ana Bleahu;Michael Davies;Julio D. Dávila

  • Prepregnancy BMI and the risk of gestational diabetes: a systematic review of the literature with meta-analysis

    M. R. Torloni;A. P. Betrán;B. L. Horta;M. U. Nakamura

  • Alcohol Drinking in Never Users of Tobacco, Cigarette Smoking in Never Drinkers, and the Risk of Head and Neck Cancer: Pooled Analysis in the International Head and Neck Cancer Epidemiology Consortium

    Mia Hashibe;Paul Brennan;Simone Benhamou;Xavier Castellsague

  • Physical inactivity: prevalence and associated variables in Brazilian adults.

    Pedro Curi Hallal;Cesar Gomes Victora;Jonathan Charles Kingdon Wells;Ros Ngela Costa Lima

Frequent Co-Authors

Ana M. B. Menezes
Ana M. B. Menezes Universidade Federal de Pelotas
Cesar G. Victora
Cesar G. Victora Universidade Federal de Pelotas
Rodrigo Siqueira Reis
Rodrigo Siqueira Reis Washington University in St. Louis
Cora Luiza Araújo
Cora Luiza Araújo Universidade Federal de Pelotas
Fernando C. Barros
Fernando C. Barros Universidade Católica de Pelotas
Bernardo L. Horta
Bernardo L. Horta Universidade Federal de Pelotas
Michael Pratt
Michael Pratt University of California, San Diego
Ulf Ekelund
Ulf Ekelund Norwegian School of Sport Sciences
Aluísio J. D. Barros
Aluísio J. D. Barros Universidade Federal de Pelotas
Deborah Carvalho Malta
Deborah Carvalho Malta Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

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