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Pedro Marques-Vidal

Pedro Marques-Vidal

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Medicine
Switzerland
2023

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Medicine

D-Index
107
Citations
100767
World Ranking
6084
National Ranking
81

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Switzerland Leader Award

Overview

Pedro Marques-Vidal is affiliated with the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. Their research primarily spans the field of Medicine, with a focus on areas such as Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Physiology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, and Genetics.

Their work addresses multiple topics within these fields, including:

  • Nutritional Studies and Diet
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Sleep and related disorders
  • Diet and metabolism studies
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Cardiac Health and Mental Health
  • Obstructive Sleep Apnea Research

Pedro Marques-Vidal has contributed to a range of scientific publications, with frequent appearances in several key journals. These include:

  • European Journal of Preventive Cardiology
  • Clinical Nutrition ESPEN
  • Nutrients
  • Scientific Reports
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Among the recent papers associated with Marques-Vidal or related collaborations are:

  • 2021 ESC Guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice, 2021, European Heart Journal
  • The power of genetic diversity in genome-wide association studies of lipids, 2021, Nature
  • 2021 ESC Guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice, 2021, European Journal of Preventive Cardiology
  • Primary prevention efforts are poorly developed in people at high cardiovascular risk: A report from the European Society of Cardiology EURObservational Research Programme EUROASPIRE V survey in 16 European countries, 2020, European Journal of Preventive Cardiology
  • Genome-wide association study identifies 48 common genetic variants associated with handedness, 2020, Nature Human Behaviour

Collaboration is a notable aspect of Marques-Vidal's career, with frequent co-authors including Péter Vollenweider, Julien Vaucher, Martin Preisig, Gérard Waeber, and Raphaël Heinzer.

The scope and diversity of these collaborations, alongside the range of publication venues, reflect engagement in multidisciplinary topics related to cardiovascular health, genetics, diet, and sleep disorders, framed largely within public health and clinical research contexts.

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

  • European Guidelines on Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Clinical Practice (Version 2012)

    Massimo F. Piepoli;Arno W. Hoes;Stefan Agewall;Christian Albus

  • 2016 European Guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice

    Massimo F. Piepoli;Arno W. Hoes;Stefan Agewall;Christian Albus

  • 2016 European Guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice

    Massimo F. Piepoli;Arno W. Hoes;Stefan Agewall;Christian Albus

  • 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

  • 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

  • Prevalence of sleep-disordered breathing in the general population: the HypnoLaus study

    R Heinzer;S Vat;P Marques-Vidal;H Marti-Soler

  • Genome-wide association study identifies 74 loci associated with educational attainment

    Aysu Okbay;Jonathan P. Beauchamp;Mark Alan Fontana;James J. Lee

  • A century of trends in adult human height

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

  • 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

  • Genetic variants associated with subjective well-being, depressive symptoms, and neuroticism identified through genome-wide analyses

    Aysu Okbay;Bart M L Baselmans;Jan-Emmanuel De Neve;Patrick Turley

  • Association between alcohol and cardiovascular disease:Mendelian randomisation analysis based on individual participant data

    Michael V Holmes;Michael V Holmes;Caroline E Dale;Luisa Zuccolo;Richard J Silverwood

  • Genome-wide association analyses of risk tolerance and risky behaviors in over 1 million individuals identify hundreds of loci and shared genetic influences

    Richard Karlsson Linnér;Richard Karlsson Linnér;Pietro Biroli;Edward Kong;S. Fleur W. Meddens;S. Fleur W. Meddens

  • Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults

    Honor Bixby;James Bentham;Bin Zhou;Mariachiara Di Cesare

  • Lifestyle and impact on cardiovascular risk factor control in coronary patients across 27 countries: Results from the European Society of Cardiology ESC-EORP EUROASPIRE V registry.

    Kornelia Kotseva;Kornelia Kotseva;Guy De Backer;Guy De Backer;Dirk De Bacquer;Dirk De Bacquer;Lars Rydén;Lars Rydén

  • Hepatic histology in obese patients undergoing bariatric surgery

    Mariana Machado;Pedro Marques-Vidal;Helena Cortez-Pinto

  • Genetic variants associated with subjective well-being, depressive symptoms, and neuroticism identified through genome-wide analyses

    Aysu Okbay;Bart M. L. Baselmans;Jan-Emmanuel De Neve;Patrick Turley

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Vollenweider
Peter Vollenweider University of Lausanne
Gérard Waeber
Gérard Waeber University of Lausanne
Fred Paccaud
Fred Paccaud University of Lausanne
Olli T. Raitakari
Olli T. Raitakari Turku University Hospital
Martin Preisig
Martin Preisig University of Lausanne
Zoltán Kutalik
Zoltán Kutalik University of Lausanne
Terho Lehtimäki
Terho Lehtimäki Tampere University
Johan G. Eriksson
Johan G. Eriksson National University of Singapore
Jean Ferrières
Jean Ferrières Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Thorkild I. A. Sørensen
Thorkild I. A. Sørensen University of Copenhagen

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