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Peter Willeit is affiliated with Innsbruck Medical University in Austria and has contributed extensively to the field of medicine, with a focus on cardiovascular and infectious diseases.

Their research spans a wide range of subjects within medicine, including infectious diseases, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, genetics, and epidemiology.

Key topics covered in their work include:

  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies
  • Cardiovascular Health and Disease Prevention
  • Cerebrovascular and Carotid Artery Diseases
  • SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies

Their recent publications illustrate their research interests and contributions. Notable papers include:

  • Carotid Intima-Media Thickness Progression as Surrogate Marker for Cardiovascular Risk, 2020, Circulation
  • Association Between Depressive Symptoms and Incident Cardiovascular Diseases, 2020, JAMA
  • Prevalence and Psychosocial Correlates of Mental Health Outcomes Among Chinese College Students During the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Pandemic, 2020, Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Associations of moderate to vigorous physical activity and sedentary behavior with depressive and anxiety symptoms in self-isolating people during the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional survey in Brazil, 2020, Psychiatry Research
  • SCORE2-Diabetes: 10-year cardiovascular risk estimation in type 2 diabetes in Europe, 2023, European Heart Journal

Frequent collaborators in their work include Lena Tschiderer, Lisa Seekircher, Stefan Kiechl, Johann Willeit, and Sanne A. E. Peters.

Their scientific output has appeared primarily in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • European Journal of Preventive Cardiology
  • Circulation
  • Journal of the American Heart Association
  • UNC Libraries

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Plasma MicroRNA Profiling Reveals Loss of Endothelial MiR-126 and Other MicroRNAs in Type 2 Diabetes

    Anna Zampetaki;Stefan Kiechl;Ignat Drozdov;Peter Willeit

  • World Health Organization cardiovascular disease risk charts: revised models to estimate risk in 21 global regions

    Stephen Kaptoge;Lisa Pennells;Dirk De Bacquer;Marie Therese Cooney

  • Cardioprotection and lifespan extension by the natural polyamine spermidine

    Tobias Eisenberg;Mahmoud Abdellatif;Sabrina Schroeder;Uwe Primessnig;Uwe Primessnig

  • Interleukin-6 receptor pathways in coronary heart disease: a collaborative meta-analysis of 82 studies

    Nadeem Sarwar;Adam S. Butterworth;Daniel F. Freitag;John Gregson

  • Risk thresholds for alcohol consumption: combined analysis of individual-participant data for 599 912 current drinkers in 83 prospective studies

    Angela M. Wood;Stephen Kaptoge;Adam S. Butterworth;Peter Willeit

  • SCORE2 risk prediction algorithms: new models to estimate 10-year risk of cardiovascular disease in Europe

    Steven Hageman;Lisa Pennells

  • Leucocyte telomere length and risk of cardiovascular disease: systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Philip C Haycock;Emma E Heydon;Stephen Kaptoge;Adam S Butterworth

  • Association of Cardiometabolic Multimorbidity With Mortality

    Emanuele Di Angelantonio;Stephen Kaptoge;David Wormser;Peter Willeit

  • 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

  • Association Between Telomere Length and Risk of Cancer and Non-Neoplastic Diseases A Mendelian Randomization Study

    Philip C Haycock;Stephen Burgess;Aayah Nounu

  • Telomere Length and Risk of Incident Cancer and Cancer Mortality

    Peter Willeit;Johann Willeit;Agnes Mayr;Siegfried Weger

  • Lipidomics Profiling and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease in the Prospective Population-based Bruneck Study

    Christin Stegemann;Raimund Pechlaner;Peter Willeit;Sarah R. Langley

  • Environmental toxic metal contaminants and risk of cardiovascular disease: systematic review and meta-analysis

    Rajiv Chowdhury;Anna Ramond;Linda M O’Keeffe;Sara Shahzad

  • Association of LPA Variants With Risk of Coronary Disease and the Implications for Lipoprotein(a)-Lowering Therapies A Mendelian Randomization Analysis

    Stephen Burgess;Brian A Ference;Brian A Ference;Brian A Ference;James R Staley;James R Staley;Daniel F Freitag

  • Baseline and on-statin treatment lipoprotein(a) levels for prediction of cardiovascular events: individual patient-data meta-analysis of statin outcome trials

    Peter Willeit;Peter Willeit;Paul M Ridker;Paul J Nestel;John Simes

  • Prospective study on circulating MicroRNAs and risk of myocardial infarction

    Anna Zampetaki;Peter Willeit;Lindsey Tilling;Ignat Drozdov

Frequent Co-Authors

Stefan Kiechl
Stefan Kiechl Innsbruck Medical University
Johann Willeit
Johann Willeit Innsbruck Medical University
Manuel Mayr
Manuel Mayr King's College London
Emanuele Di Angelantonio
Emanuele Di Angelantonio University of Cambridge
Børge G. Nordestgaard
Børge G. Nordestgaard University of Copenhagen
Veikko Salomaa
Veikko Salomaa Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
Vilmundur Gudnason
Vilmundur Gudnason University of Iceland
Mark Woodward
Mark Woodward Imperial College London
John Danesh
John Danesh University of Cambridge
Oscar H. Franco
Oscar H. Franco University Medical Center Utrecht

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