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Tom Wilsgaard is affiliated with the University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway and focuses extensively on medical research with a strong emphasis on cardiology, public health, and endocrinology.

The primary fields of study for Wilsgaard's research include Medicine, with notable subfields covering Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Surgery, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

Wilsgaard's research topics reflect a broad spectrum of health concerns, frequently addressing Nutritional Studies and Diet, Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins, Atrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes, Obesity, Physical Activity, and Diet, Health Disparities and Outcomes, Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies, and Acute Ischemic Stroke Management.

Recent publications by Wilsgaard demonstrate involvement in large-scale population-based health surveys and studies related to cardiovascular and metabolic conditions. Notable papers include:

  • The seventh survey of the Tromsø Study (Tromsø7) 2015-2016: study design, data collection, attendance, and prevalence of risk factors and disease in a multipurpose population-based health survey, 2022, Scandinavian Journal of Public Health
  • GWAS of random glucose in 476,326 individuals provide insights into diabetes pathophysiology, complications and treatment stratification, 2023, Nature Genetics
  • Association of glycated hemoglobin A1c levels with cardiovascular outcomes in the general population: results from the BiomarCaRE (Biomarker for Cardiovascular Risk Assessment in Europe) consortium, 2021, Cardiovascular Diabetology
  • Safety and efficacy of tenecteplase in patients with wake-up stroke assessed by non-contrast CT (TWIST): a multicentre, open-label, randomised controlled trial, 2022, The Lancet Neurology
  • Exploring the effects of lifestyle on breast cancer risk, age at diagnosis, and survival: the EBBA-Life study, 2020, Breast Cancer Research and Treatment

The scientist collaborates frequently with a group of co-authors who appear consistently across studies, including Maja-Lisa Løchen, Inger Njølstad, Ellisiv B. Mathiesen, Laila Arnesdatter Hopstock, and Henrik Schirmer.

Wilsgaard's work often appears in specific publication venues with repeated contributions to BMJ Open, Open Heart, European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, European Heart Journal, and Research Square.

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 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

  • Discovery and refinement of loci associated with lipid levels

    Cristen J. Willer;Ellen M. Schmidt;Sebanti Sengupta;Gina M. Peloso;Gina M. Peloso;Gina M. Peloso

  • 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

  • Defining the role of common variation in the genomic and biological architecture of adult human height

    Andrew R. Wood;Tonu Esko;Jian Yang;Sailaja Vedantam

  • 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

  • Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology

    Adam E. Locke;Bratati Kahali;Sonja I. Berndt;Anne E. Justice

  • A century of trends in adult human height

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

  • Common variants associated with plasma triglycerides and risk for coronary artery disease

    Ron Do;Cristen J. Willer;Ellen M. Schmidt;Sebanti Sengupta

  • 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

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

    Steven Hageman;Lisa Pennells

  • Cohort profile: The Tromsø Study

    Bjarne Koster Jacobsen;Anne Elise Eggen;Ellisiv B. Mathiesen;Tom Wilsgaard

  • 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

  • The Influence of Age and Sex on Genetic Associations with Adult Body Size and Shape: A Large-Scale Genome-Wide Interaction Study

    Thomas W. Winkler;Anne E. Justice;Mariaelisa Graff;Llilda Barata

  • A sequence variant in ZFHX3 on 16q22 associates with atrial fibrillation and ischemic stroke.

    Daniel F Gudbjartsson;Hilma Holm;Hilma Holm;Solveig Gretarsdottir;Gudmar Thorleifsson

  • Drug-Eluting or Bare-Metal Stents for Coronary Artery Disease

    Kaare H Bønaa;Jan Mannsverk;Rune Wiseth;Lars Aaberge

  • Carotid Atherosclerosis Is a Stronger Predictor of Myocardial Infarction in Women Than in Men A 6-Year Follow-Up Study of 6226 Persons: The Tromsø Study

    Stein Harald Johnsen;Ellisiv B. Mathiesen;Oddmund Joakimsen;Eva Stensland

  • Impact of smoking and smoking cessation on cardiovascular events and mortality among older adults: meta-analysis of individual participant data from prospective cohort studies of the CHANCES consortium

    Ute Mons;Aysel Müezzinler;Aysel Müezzinler;Carolin Gellert;Ben Schöttker

  • 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

Inger Njølstad
Inger Njølstad University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Albert Hofman
Albert Hofman Harvard University
Hermann Brenner
Hermann Brenner German Cancer Research Center
Annette Peters
Annette Peters Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Jaakko Tuomilehto
Jaakko Tuomilehto University of Helsinki
Veikko Salomaa
Veikko Salomaa Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
Kari Kuulasmaa
Kari Kuulasmaa Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
Nicholas J. Wareham
Nicholas J. Wareham University of Cambridge
Kari Stefansson
Kari Stefansson deCODE Genetics (Iceland)
Unnur Thorsteinsdottir
Unnur Thorsteinsdottir deCODE Genetics (Iceland)

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