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Torben Jørgensen

Torben Jørgensen

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Medicine
Denmark
2026

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Medicine in Denmark Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Medicine in Denmark Leader Award
  • 1979 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Torben Jørgensen is affiliated with the University of Copenhagen in Denmark and has an extensive research profile primarily within the field of Medicine.

Their publication record spans multiple subfields of study including Psychiatry and Mental Health, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, General Health Professions, and Molecular Biology.

The main topics of their research work include:

  • Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Gut microbiota and health
  • Health, psychology, and well-being
  • Health Promotion and Cardiovascular Prevention
  • Atrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes
  • Acute Myocardial Infarction Research

Jørgensen has contributed to several recent scientific papers, notable among them are:

  • 2021 ESC Guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice, 2021, European Heart Journal
  • Large-scale association analyses identify host factors influencing human gut microbiome composition, 2021, Nature Genetics
  • SCORE2 risk prediction algorithms: new models to estimate 10-year risk of cardiovascular disease in Europe, 2021, European Heart Journal
  • 2021 ESC Guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice, 2021, European Journal of Preventive Cardiology
  • Irritable bowel, chronic widespread pain, chronic fatigue and related syndromes are prevalent and highly overlapping in the general population: DanFunD, 2020, Scientific Reports

Among the frequent co-authors collaborating with Jørgensen are Thomas Meinertz Dantoft, Marie Weinreich Petersen, Per Fink, Allan Linneberg, and Tina Birgitte Wisbech Carstensen.

The scientist regularly publishes in several academic venues, with multiple publications in:

  • Journal of Psychosomatic Research
  • Scandinavian Journal of Public Health
  • UNC Libraries
  • European Heart Journal
  • Scientific Reports

Torben Jørgensen was recognized as a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1979.

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

  • Richness of human gut microbiome correlates with metabolic markers

    Trine Nielsen;Junjie Qin;Edi Prifti

  • 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

  • 2021 ESC Guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice

    Frank L J Visseren;François Mach;Yvo M Smulders;David Carballo

  • Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index

    Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Cristen J. Willer;Sonja I. Berndt;Keri L. Monda

  • 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

  • New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk

    Josée Dupuis;Josée Dupuis;Claudia Langenberg;Inga Prokopenko;Richa Saxena;Richa Saxena

  • Meta-analysis of genome-wide association data and large-scale replication identifies additional susceptibility loci for type 2 diabetes

    E Zeggini;L J Scott;R Saxena;B F Voight

  • Disentangling type 2 diabetes and metformin treatment signatures in the human gut microbiota

    Kristoffer Forslund;Falk Hildebrand;Falk Hildebrand;Trine Nielsen;Gwen Falony;Gwen Falony

  • New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk (vol 42, pg 105, 2010)

    J Dupuis;C Langenberg;I Prokopenko;R Saxena

  • 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

  • Human gut microbes impact host serum metabolome and insulin sensitivity

    Helle Krogh Pedersen;Valborg Gudmundsdottir;Henrik B. Nielsen;Tuulia Hyötyläinen;Tuulia Hyötyläinen

  • A genome-wide association search for type 2 diabetes genes in African Americans.

    N D Palmer;C W McDonough;P J Hicks;B H Roh

  • Genome-wide association yields new sequence variants at seven loci that associate with measures of obesity

    Gudmar Thorleifsson;G Bragi Walters;Daniel F Gudbjartsson;Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir

  • Fine-mapping type 2 diabetes loci to single-variant resolution using high-density imputation and islet-specific epigenome maps.

    Anubha Mahajan;Daniel Taliun;Matthias Thurner;Neil R. Robertson

  • Public Values An Inventory

    Torben Beck Jørgensen;Barry Bozeman

  • A century of trends in adult human height

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

  • C-Reactive Protein, Fibrinogen, and Cardiovascular Disease Prediction

    Stephen Kaptoge;Emanuele Di Angelantonio;Lisa Pennells;Angela M. Wood

  • Erratum: New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk (Nature Genetics (2010) 42 (105-116))

    Josée Dupuis;Claudia Langenberg;Inga Prokopenko;Richa Saxena

Frequent Co-Authors

Oluf Pedersen
Oluf Pedersen University of Copenhagen
Torben Hansen
Torben Hansen University of Copenhagen
Allan Linneberg
Allan Linneberg University of Copenhagen
Knut Borch-Johnsen
Knut Borch-Johnsen Aarhus University
Niels Grarup
Niels Grarup University of Copenhagen
Veikko Salomaa
Veikko Salomaa Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
Peter Laurberg
Peter Laurberg Aalborg University
Andrew P. Morris
Andrew P. Morris University of Liverpool
Philippe Froguel
Philippe Froguel Imperial College London
Erik Ingelsson
Erik Ingelsson Stanford University

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