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2025

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Medicine

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131
Citations
70448
World Ranking
2382
National Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Medicine in Singapore Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Singapore Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Medicine in Singapore Leader Award

Overview

Rob M. van Dam is affiliated with the National University of Singapore in Singapore. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a notable focus on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Physiology, Genetics, Molecular Biology, and Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism.

The scientist's work covers a range of main topics including Nutritional Studies and Diet, Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet, Diet and Metabolism Studies, Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling, Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies, and Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment.

Rob M. van Dam has published extensively, contributing to journals such as:

  • Nutrients
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • UNC Libraries
  • Journal of Nutrition
  • American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Notable papers authored by Rob M. van Dam include:

  • Coffee, Caffeine, and Health (2020), New England Journal of Medicine

Other recent influential papers in which Rob M. van Dam appears as an author or co-author are:

  • Identification of type 2 diabetes loci in 433,540 East Asian individuals (2020), Nature
  • Food, culture, and identity in multicultural societies: Insights from Singapore (2020), Appetite
  • European polygenic risk score for prediction of breast cancer shows similar performance in Asian women (2020), Nature Communications
  • A Randomized Controlled Trial to Evaluate the Effects of a Smartphone Application-Based Lifestyle Coaching Program on Gestational Weight Gain, Glycemic Control, and Maternal and Neonatal Outcomes in Women With Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: The SMART-GDM Study (2020), Diabetes Care

The scientist frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Xueling Sim
  • E Shyong Tai
  • Falk Müller-Riemenschneider
  • Clare Whitton
  • Jin Fang Chai

Best Publications

  • 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

  • Twelve type 2 diabetes susceptibility loci identified through large-scale association analysis

    Benjamin F. Voight;Benjamin F. Voight;Laura J. Scott;Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir;Andrew P. Morris

  • Large-scale association analysis provides insights into the genetic architecture and pathophysiology of type 2 diabetes

    Andrew P Morris;Benjamin F Voight;Benjamin F Voight;Tanya M Teslovich;Teresa Ferreira

  • Systematic Review of Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and Risk of Fracture

    Mohsen Janghorbani;Mohsen Janghorbani;Rob M. Van Dam;Walter C. Willett;Walter C. Willett;Frank B. Hu;Frank B. Hu

  • Intensive insulin therapy and mortality among critically ill patients: a meta-analysis including NICE-SUGAR study data

    Donald E.G. Griesdale;Russell J. de Souza;Rob M. van Dam;Daren K. Heyland

  • Vitamin D and Calcium Intake in Relation to Type 2 Diabetes in Women

    Anastassios G. Pittas;Bess Dawson-Hughes;Tricia Li;Rob M. Van Dam

  • Adiponectin levels and risk of type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    Shanshan Li;Hyun Joon Shin;Eric L. Ding;Rob M. van Dam

  • 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

  • Dietary Patterns and Risk for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in U.S. Men

    Rob M van Dam;Eric B Rimm;Walter C Willett;Meir J Stampfer

  • Abdominal Obesity and the Risk of All-Cause, Cardiovascular, and Cancer Mortality Sixteen Years of Follow-Up in US Women

    Cuilin Zhang;Kathryn M. Rexrode;Rob M. van Dam;Tricia Y. Li

  • Physical activity of moderate intensity and risk of type 2 diabetes: a systematic review.

    Christie Y. Jeon;R. Peter Lokken;Frank B. Hu;Rob M. van Dam

  • Genome-wide trans-ancestry meta-analysis provides insight into the genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes susceptibility.

    Anubha Mahajan;Min Jin Go;Weihua Zhang;Jennifer E. Below

  • Frequency of the WHO metabolic syndrome in European cohorts, and an alternative definition of an insulin resistance syndrome

    Beverley Balkau;Marie-Aline Charles;Thomas Drivsholm;Knut Borch-Johnsen

  • Whole Grain, Bran, and Germ Intake and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes: A Prospective Cohort Study and Systematic Review

    Jeroen S. L de Munter;Frank B Hu;Frank B Hu;Donna Spiegelman;Mary Franz

  • Adiposity in relation to vitamin D status and parathyroid hormone levels : a population-based study in older men and women

    Marieke B. Snijder;Rob M. van Dam;Marjolein Visser;Dorly J. H. Deeg

  • Income inequality, mortality, and self rated health: meta-analysis of multilevel studies

    Naoki Kondo;Grace Sembajwe;Ichiro Kawachi;Rob M van Dam

  • Dietary Fat and Meat Intake in Relation to Risk of Type 2 Diabetes in Men

    Rob M. van Dam;Walter C. Willett;Eric B. Rimm;Meir J. Stampfer

  • Association of overweight with increased risk of coronary heart disease partly independent of blood pressure and cholesterol levels: a meta-analysis of 21 cohort studies including more than 300 000 persons.

    Rik P. Bogers;Wanda J. E. Bemelmans;Rudolf T. Hoogenveen;Hendriek C. Boshuizen

  • Breast Cancer Risk Genes - Association Analysis in More than 113,000 Women

    Leila Dorling;Sara Carvalho;Jamie Allen

  • Genome-wide trans-ancestry meta-analysis provides insight into the genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes susceptibility

    Anubha Mahajan;Min Jin Go;Weihua Zhang;Jennifer E. Below

Frequent Co-Authors

Frank B. Hu
Frank B. Hu Harvard University
Jianjun Liu
Jianjun Liu Genome Institute of Singapore
Jian-Min Yuan
Jian-Min Yuan University of Pittsburgh
Woon-Puay Koh
Woon-Puay Koh National University of Singapore
E. Shyong Tai
E. Shyong Tai National University of Singapore
Qi Sun
Qi Sun Harvard University
Walter C. Willett
Walter C. Willett Harvard University
Xueling Sim
Xueling Sim National University of Singapore
Chiea Chuen Khor
Chiea Chuen Khor Agency for Science, Technology and Research
Eric Boerwinkle
Eric Boerwinkle The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

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