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2207
National Ranking
4

Overview

Rute Santos is affiliated with the University of Minho in Portugal and has contributed extensively in the field of Medicine, with a focus on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Physiology, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, as well as Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

The scientist's research addresses a variety of topics, particularly:

  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Physical Activity and Health
  • Children's Physical and Motor Development
  • Sleep and related disorders
  • Infant Development and Preterm Care
  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Birth, Development, and Health

Santos has been published frequently in several venues, including:

  • Revista fisio&terapia.
  • Journal of Physical Activity and Health
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Nutrition Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases
  • European Heart Journal Acute Cardiovascular Care

Notable recent papers include:

  • Variations in accelerometry measured physical activity and sedentary time across Europe - harmonized analyses of 47,497 children and adolescents (2020), International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity
  • A Narrative Review of Motor Competence in Children and Adolescents: What We Know and What We Need to Find Out (2020), International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Sleep and health-related physical fitness in children and adolescents: a systematic review (2021), Sleep Science
  • Correlates of Sleep Duration in Early Childhood: A Systematic Review (2020), Behavioral Sleep Medicine
  • Effects of recreational team handball on bone health, postural balance and body composition in inactive postmenopausal women - A randomised controlled trial (2021), Bone

Frequent co-authors contributing alongside Santos include:

  • Luís Lopes
  • Eduarda Sousa-Sá
  • César Agostinis-Sobrinho
  • Zhiguang Zhang
  • João R. Pereira

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

  • Sedentary behavior research network (SBRN) - terminology consensus project process and outcome

    Mark S. Tremblay;Salomé Aubert;Joel D. Barnes;Travis J. Saunders

  • 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

  • A century of trends in adult human height

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

  • A collaborative approach to adopting/adapting guidelines - The Australian 24-Hour Movement Guidelines for the early years (Birth to 5 years): an integration of physical activity, sedentary behavior, and sleep.

    Anthony D Okely;Anthony D Okely;Davina Ghersi;Kylie Hesketh;Rute Santos;Rute Santos

  • Height and body-mass index trajectories of school-aged children and adolescents from 1985 to 2019 in 200 countries and territories: a pooled analysis of 2181 population-based studies with 65 million participants

    Andrea Rodriguez-Martinez;Bin Zhou;Marisa K. Sophiea;James Bentham

  • Variations in accelerometry measured physical activity and sedentary time across Europe - harmonized analyses of 47,497 children and adolescents

    Jostein Steene-Johannessen;Bjørge Hermann Hansen;Knut Eirik Dalene;Elin Kolle

  • Prevalence of the Portuguese population attaining sufficient physical activity.

    Fatima Baptista;Diana A Santos;Analiza M Silva;Jorge Mota

  • Sedentary behavior and physical activity are independently related to functional fitness in older adults

    Diana A. Santos;Analiza M. Silva;Fátima Baptista;Rute Santos

  • Adherence to 24-Hour Movement Guidelines for the Early Years and associations with social-cognitive development among Australian preschool children

    Dylan P. Cliff;Dylan P. Cliff;Jade McNeill;Jade McNeill;Stewart A. Vella;Steven J. Howard

  • Repositioning of the global epicentre of non-optimal cholesterol

    Cristina Taddei;Bin Zhou;Honor Bixby;Rodrigo M. Carrillo-Larco

  • Associations between gross Motor Coordination and Academic Achievement in elementary school children

    Luís Carlos Oliveira Lopes;Rute Santos;Beatriz Oliveira Pereira;Vitor Pires Lopes

  • Relationships between physical activity, obesity and meal frequency in adolescents.

    Jorge Mota;Filipe Fidalgo;Ricardo Silva;José Carlos Ribeiro

  • Prevalence of overweight and obesity among Portuguese youth: a study in a representative sample of 10-18-year-old children and adolescents.

    Luis B Sardinha;Rute Santos;Susana Vale;Analiza M Silva

  • Effects of diabetes definition on global surveillance of diabetes prevalence and diagnosis: A pooled analysis of 96 population-based studies with 331 288 participants

    Goodarz Danaei;Saman Fahimi;Yuan Lu;Bin Zhou

  • A narrative review of motor competence in children and adolescents: what we know and what we need to find out

    Luís Lopes;Rute Santos;Manuel Coelho-E-Silva;Catherine Draper

  • Heterogeneous contributions of change in population distribution of body mass index to change in obesity and underweight

    Maria Lc Iurilli;Bin Zhou;James E Bennett

  • The independent associations of sedentary behaviour and physical activity on cardiorespiratory fitness

    Rute Santos;Jorge Mota;Anthony David Okely;Michael Pratt

  • Preschool children physical activity measurement: importance of epoch length choice.

    Susana Vale;Rute Maria Santos;Pedro Silva;Luísa Soares-Miranda

Frequent Co-Authors

Annika Rosengren
Annika Rosengren Sahlgrenska University Hospital
Jean Woo
Jean Woo Chinese University of Hong Kong
Lauren Lissner
Lauren Lissner University of Gothenburg
Louise A. Baur
Louise A. Baur University of Sydney

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