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Peter H. Whincup is affiliated with St George's, University of London in the United Kingdom. Their research spans a broad range of topics within medicine, with a particular focus on cardiology, public health, and periodontics. The main field of study encompasses medicine, with specialized work in subfields including cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, public health, environmental and occupational health, periodontics, physiology, and endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism.

Their work addresses several key topics as well, including obesity, physical activity, and diet; dental health and care utilization; health disparities and outcomes; cardiovascular health and disease prevention; oral microbiology and periodontitis research; nutrition and health in aging; and frailty in older adults.

Recent scholarly contributions by Peter H. Whincup include publications in renowned journals such as The Lancet Public Health, British Journal of Sports Medicine, Scientific Reports, Circulation, and British Journal of Ophthalmology. Selected papers with their year of publication and venues are as follows:

  • Daily steps and all-cause mortality: a meta-analysis of 15 international cohorts, 2022, The Lancet Public Health
  • Joint associations of accelerometer-measured physical activity and sedentary time with all-cause mortality: a harmonised meta-analysis in more than 44 000 middle-aged and older individuals, 2020, British Journal of Sports Medicine
  • Oral health and all-cause, cardiovascular disease, and respiratory mortality in older people in the UK and USA, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Prospective Association of Daily Steps With Cardiovascular Disease: A Harmonized Meta-Analysis, 2022, Circulation
  • Artificial intelligence-enabled retinal vasculometry for prediction of circulatory mortality, myocardial infarction and stroke, 2022, British Journal of Ophthalmology

Frequent collaboration is a notable feature of their work, highlighted by repeated co-authorship with several peers. These frequent coauthors include Lucy Lennon, S. Goya Wannamethee, Olia Papacosta, Sheena E Ramsay, and Christopher G. Owen.

The scientist's research is regularly disseminated at and through a set of recurring publication venues. These include the SSM Annual Scientific Meeting, UNC Libraries, Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice, British Journal of Nutrition, and Age and Ageing.

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 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

  • Homocysteine and risk of ischemic heart disease and stroke: A meta-analysis

    R. Clarke;R. Collins;S. Lewington;A. Donald

  • Diabetes mellitus, fasting glucose, and risk of cause-specific death.

    Sreenivasa Rao Kondapally Seshasai;Stephen Kaptoge;Alexander Thompson;Emanuele Di Angelantonio

  • 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

  • Low grade inflammation and coronary heart disease: prospective study and updated meta-analyses

    John Danesh;Peter Whincup;Mary Walker;Lucy Lennon

  • Genetic variants in novel pathways influence blood pressure and cardiovascular disease risk

    Georg B. Ehret;Georg B. Ehret;Georg B. Ehret;Patricia B. Munroe;Kenneth M. Rice;Murielle Bochud

  • Effect of Infant Feeding on the Risk of Obesity Across the Life Course: A Quantitative Review of Published Evidence

    Christopher G Owen;Richard M Martin;Peter H Whincup;George Davey Smith

  • A century of trends in adult human height

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

  • Dose-response associations between accelerometry measured physical activity and sedentary time and all cause mortality: systematic review and harmonised meta-analysis

    Ulf Ekelund;Jakob Tarp;Jostein Steene-Johannessen;Bjørge Hermann Hansen

  • C-Reactive Protein, Fibrinogen, and Cardiovascular Disease Prediction

    Stephen Kaptoge;Emanuele Di Angelantonio;Lisa Pennells;Angela M. Wood

  • Birth Weight and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes: A Systematic Review

    Peter H. Whincup;Samantha J. Kaye;Christopher G. Owen;Rachel Huxley

  • The interleukin-6 receptor as a target for prevention of coronary heart disease: a mendelian randomisation analysis.

    D I Swerdlow;M V Holmes;K B Kuchenbaecker

  • Carotid Plaque, Intima Media Thickness, Cardiovascular Risk Factors, and Prevalent Cardiovascular Disease in Men and Women: The British Regional Heart Study

    Shah Ebrahim;Olia Papacosta;Peter Whincup;Goya Wannamethee

  • 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

  • Long-term interleukin-6 levels and subsequent risk of coronary heart disease: two new prospective studies and a systematic review.

    John Danesh;Stephen Kaptoge;Andrea G Mann;Nadeem Sarwar

  • Prospective study of risk factors for development of non-insulin dependent diabetes in middle aged British men.

    I. J. Perry;S. G. Wannamethee;M. K. Walker;A. G. Thomson

  • The UK10K project identifies rare variants in health and disease

    Klaudia Walter;Josine L. Min;Jie Huang;Lucy Crooks

Frequent Co-Authors

Derek G Cook
Derek G Cook St George's, University of London
Richard W Morris
Richard W Morris University of Bristol
Naveed Sattar
Naveed Sattar University of Glasgow
Debbie A. Lawlor
Debbie A. Lawlor University of Bristol
Ulf Ekelund
Ulf Ekelund Norwegian School of Sport Sciences
Gordon D.O. Lowe
Gordon D.O. Lowe University of Glasgow
Shah Ebrahim
Shah Ebrahim London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Rebecca Hardy
Rebecca Hardy University College London
A G Shaper
A G Shaper The Royal Free Hospital
Diana Kuh
Diana Kuh University College London

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