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Rachel R. Huxley

Rachel R. Huxley

D-Index & Metrics

Medicine

D-Index
93
Citations
41844
World Ranking
10714
National Ranking
332

Rachel R. Huxley publication distribution in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Medicine in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Rachel R. Huxley sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 289 publications — 15th percentile

15% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,796 publications or more.

Rachel R. Huxley D-index placement in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Medicine scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Rachel R. Huxley sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 217+

This scientist: 93 D-Index — 47th percentile

47% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 217 D-Index or more.

Overview

Rachel R. Huxley is affiliated with Deakin University in Australia and has contributed extensively to the field of medicine, with a focus on several subfields including health, toxicology and mutagenesis, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, public health, environmental and occupational health, physiology, and general health professions.

Their research covers a range of topics, notably:

  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Acute Myocardial Infarction Research
  • Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics
  • Sex and Gender in Healthcare
  • Cardiac Health and Mental Health
  • Gestational Diabetes Research and Management

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Rachel R. Huxley include Jonathan E. Shaw, Crystal Lee, Zachary T. Bloomgarden, Robert Ćhilton, and Youfei Guan.

Publications by Rachel R. Huxley have appeared in several scientific venues. The most frequent publication outlets are:

  • Journal of Diabetes
  • UNC Libraries
  • BMJ Open
  • The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific
  • Diabetologia

Significant recent papers from their work include:

  • "Association of anthropometry and weight change with risk of dementia and its major subtypes: A meta-analysis consisting 2.8 million adults with 57 294 cases of dementia," 2020, Obesity Reviews
  • "Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown restrictions on psychosocial and behavioural outcomes among Australian adults with type 2 diabetes: Findings from the PREDICT cohort study," 2021, Diabetic Medicine
  • "Biology, Bias, or Both? The Contribution of Sex and Gender to the Disparity in Cardiovascular Outcomes Between Women and Men," 2022, Current Atherosclerosis Reports
  • "Absolute and Attributable Risks of Atrial Fibrillation in Relation to Optimal and Borderline Risk Factors: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study," 2020, UNC Libraries
  • "Trends in Hospital Admission Rates and Associated Direct Healthcare Costs in Brazil: A Nationwide Retrospective Study between 2000 and 2015," 2020, The Innovation

Best Publications

  • 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

  • Excess risk of fatal coronary heart disease associated with diabetes in men and women: meta-analysis of 37 prospective cohort studies

    Rachel R. Huxley;Federica Barzi;Mark Woodward

  • Indices of abdominal obesity are better discriminators of cardiovascular risk factors than BMI: a meta-analysis

    Crystal Man Ying Lee;Rachel R. Huxley;Rachel P. Wildman;Mark Woodward

  • The role of size at birth and postnatal catch-up growth in determining systolic blood pressure: a systematic review of the literature.

    Rachel R. Huxley;Alistair W. Shiell;Catherine M. Law

  • Type-II diabetes and pancreatic cancer: a meta-analysis of 36 studies.

    R R Huxley;A Ansary-Moghaddam;A Berrington de Gonzalez;F. Barzi

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

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

  • Body mass index, waist circumference and waist:hip ratio as predictors of cardiovascular risk—a review of the literature

    Rachel Huxley;S. Mendis;E. Zheleznyakov;S. Reddy

  • Cigarette smoking as a risk factor for coronary heart disease in women compared with men: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies

    Rachel R Huxley;Rachel R Huxley;Mark Woodward;Mark Woodward

  • Unravelling the fetal origins hypothesis: is there really an inverse association between birthweight and subsequent blood pressure?

    Rachel Huxley;Aandrew Neil;Rory Collins

  • Obesity and Risk of Colorectal Cancer: A Meta-analysis of 31 Studies with 70,000 Events

    Alireza Ansary Moghaddam;Mark Woodward;Rachel Huxley

  • The impact of dietary and lifestyle risk factors on risk of colorectal cancer: A quantitative overview of the epidemiological evidence

    Rachel R. Huxley;Alireza Ansary-Moghaddam;Peter Clifton;Sebastien Czernichow

  • Diabetes as a risk factor for stroke in women compared with men: a systematic review and meta-analysis of 64 cohorts, including 775 385 individuals and 12 539 strokes

    Sanne A E Peters;Sanne A E Peters;Rachel R Huxley;Mark Woodward;Mark Woodward

  • Absolute and Attributable Risks of Atrial Fibrillation in Relation to Optimal and Borderline Risk Factors: the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study

    Rachel R. Huxley;Faye L. Lopez;Aaron R. Folsom;Sunil K. Agarwal

  • Diabetes as risk factor for incident coronary heart disease in women compared with men: a systematic review and meta-analysis of 64 cohorts including 858,507 individuals and 28,203 coronary events

    Sanne A. E. Peters;Rachel R. Huxley;Rachel R. Huxley;Mark Woodward;Mark Woodward

  • Coffee, Decaffeinated Coffee, and Tea Consumption in Relation to Incident Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Systematic Review With Meta-analysis

    Rachel Huxley;Crystal Man Ying Lee;Federica Barzi;Leif Timmermeister

  • Prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control of hypertension in China data from the China National Nutrition and Health Survey 2002

    Yangfeng Wu;Rachel Huxley;Liming Li;Vibeke Anna

  • Type 2 Diabetes as a Risk Factor for Dementia in Women Compared With Men: A Pooled Analysis of 2.3 Million People Comprising More Than 100,000 Cases of Dementia.

    Saion Chatterjee;Sanne A.E. Peters;Mark Woodward;Mark Woodward;Silvia Mejia Arango

  • Meta-analysis of cohort and case-control studies of type 2 diabetes mellitus and risk of atrial fibrillation

    Rachel R. Huxley;Kristian B. Filion;Suma H Konety;Alvaro Alonso

  • The relation between dietary flavonol intake and coronary heart disease mortality: a meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies

    Rachel R. Huxley;H. A. W. Neil

  • Is Low Birth Weight an Antecedent of CKD in Later Life? A Systematic Review of Observational Studies

    Sarah L. White;Vlado Perkovic;Alan Cass;Choon Lan Chang

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark Woodward
Mark Woodward Imperial College London
Tai Hing Lam
Tai Hing Lam University of Hong Kong
Hirotsugu Ueshima
Hirotsugu Ueshima Shiga University of Medical Science
Vlado Perkovic
Vlado Perkovic George Institute for Global Health
Alvaro Alonso
Alvaro Alonso Emory University
Sébastien Czernichow
Sébastien Czernichow Université Paris Cité
Graham G. Giles
Graham G. Giles University of Melbourne
John Chalmers
John Chalmers University of New South Wales
Yuming Guo
Yuming Guo Monash University
Sun Ha Jee
Sun Ha Jee Yonsei University

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