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2026

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Medicine

D-Index
102
Citations
71362
World Ranking
7479
National Ranking
10

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Medicine in Iran Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Medicine in Iran Leader Award

Overview

Roya Kelishadi is affiliated with Isfahan University of Medical Sciences in Iran and has a research focus primarily in the field of Medicine. Their work encompasses several important subfields including Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Nutrition and Dietetics, and General Health Professions.

The scientist's research topics cover diverse areas such as Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet; Birth, Development, and Health; Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals; Child Nutrition and Water Access; Nutritional Studies and Diet; Health and Lifestyle Studies; and Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins.

Roya Kelishadi has contributed to numerous journal articles, with frequent publications in the following venues:

  • International Journal of Preventive Medicine
  • Research Square (Research Square)
  • Scientific Reports
  • Environmental Science and Pollution Research
  • Journal of Diabetes & Metabolic Disorders

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

  • Mostafa Qorbani
  • Ramin Heshmat
  • Motahar Heidari-Beni
  • Mohammad Esmaeil Motlagh
  • Seyede Shahrbanoo Daniali

Their recent publications address significant global health issues. Among them are:

  • Association of the triglyceride glucose index as a measure of insulin resistance with mortality and cardiovascular disease in populations from five continents (PURE study): a prospective cohort study (2022), published in The Lancet Healthy Longevity
  • Association of Symptoms of Depression With Cardiovascular Disease and Mortality in Low-, Middle-, and High-Income Countries (2020), published in JAMA Psychiatry
  • The household economic burden of non-communicable diseases in 18 countries (2020), published in BMJ Global Health
  • Association between sedentary behavior and low back pain; A systematic review and meta-analysis (2021), published in Health Promotion Perspectives
  • Associations of outdoor fine particulate air pollution and cardiovascular disease in 157,836 individuals from 21 high-income, middle-income, and low-income countries (PURE): a prospective cohort study (2020), published in The Lancet Planetary Health

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

  • 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

  • Review on iron and its importance for human health.

    Nazanin Abbaspour;Richard Hurrell;Roya Kelishadi

  • Modifiable risk factors, cardiovascular disease, and mortality in 155 722 individuals from 21 high-income, middle-income, and low-income countries (PURE): a prospective cohort study

    Salim Yusuf;Philip Joseph;Sumathy Rangarajan;Shofiqul Islam

  • Prognostic value of grip strength: findings from the Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiology (PURE) study

    Darryl P Leong;Darryl P Leong;Koon K Teo;Koon K Teo;Sumathy Rangarajan;Patricio Lopez-Jaramillo

  • A century of trends in adult human height

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

  • Zinc and its importance for human health: An integrative review.

    Nazanin Roohani;Richard Hurrell;Roya Kelishadi;Rainer Schulin

  • Associations of fats and carbohydrate intake with cardiovascular disease and mortality in 18 countries from five continents (PURE): a prospective cohort study

    Mahshid Dehghan;Andrew Mente;Andrew Mente;Xiaohe Zhang;Sumathi Swaminathan

  • Use of secondary prevention drugs for cardiovascular disease in the community in high-income, middle-income, and low-income countries (the PURE Study): a prospective epidemiological survey

    Salim Yusuf;Shofiqul Islam;Clara K Chow;Sumathy Rangarajan

  • Cardiovascular Risk and Events in 17 Low-, Middle-, and High-Income Countries

    Salim Yusuf;Sumathy Rangarajan;Koon Teo;Shofiqul Islam

  • Association of Urinary Sodium and Potassium Excretion with Blood Pressure

    Andrew Mente;Sumathy Rangarajan;Matthew J. McQueen;Paul Poirier

  • Childhood Overweight, Obesity, and the Metabolic Syndrome in Developing Countries

    Roya Kelishadi

  • Fruit, vegetable, and legume intake, and cardiovascular disease and deaths in 18 countries (PURE): a prospective cohort study

    Victoria Miller;Andrew Mente;Mahshid Dehghan;Sumathy Rangarajan

  • Variations in common diseases, hospital admissions, and deaths in middle-aged adults in 21 countries from five continents (PURE): a prospective cohort study.

    Gilles R Dagenais;Darryl P Leong;Sumathy Rangarajan;Fernando Lanas

  • Prospective Epidemiological Research Studies in Iran (the PERSIAN Cohort Study): Rationale, Objectives, and Design.

    Hossein Poustchi;Sareh Eghtesad;Farin Kamangar;Arash Etemadi

  • First Nationwide Study of the Prevalence of the Metabolic Syndrome and Optimal Cutoff Points of Waist Circumference in the Middle East: The National Survey of Risk Factors for Noncommunicable Diseases of Iran

    Alireza Delavari;Mohammad Hossein Forouzanfar;Siamak Alikhani;Afsaneh Sharifian

  • Association of physical activity and dietary behaviours in relation to the body mass index in a national sample of Iranian children and adolescents: CASPIAN Study

    Roya Kelishadi;Gelayol Ardalan;Riaz Gheiratmand;Mohammad Mehdi Gouya

Frequent Co-Authors

Mostafa Qorbani
Mostafa Qorbani Alborz University of Medical Sciences
Nizal Sarrafzadegan
Nizal Sarrafzadegan Isfahan University of Medical Sciences
Annika Rosengren
Annika Rosengren Sahlgrenska University Hospital
Saeid Safiri
Saeid Safiri Tabriz University of Medical Sciences
Viswanathan Mohan
Viswanathan Mohan Madras Diabetes Research Foundation
Amir Kasaeian
Amir Kasaeian Tehran University of Medical Sciences
Leila Azadbakht
Leila Azadbakht Tehran University of Medical Sciences
Ahmad Esmaillzadeh
Ahmad Esmaillzadeh Tehran University of Medical Sciences
Reza Majdzadeh
Reza Majdzadeh University of Essex
Koon K. Teo
Koon K. Teo McMaster University

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