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Uri Goldbourt

Uri Goldbourt

D-Index & Metrics

Medicine

D-Index
86
Citations
27324
World Ranking
14128
National Ranking
35

Uri Goldbourt publication distribution in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Medicine in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Uri Goldbourt sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 405 publications — 39th percentile

39% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,796 publications or more.

Uri Goldbourt D-index placement in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Medicine scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Uri Goldbourt sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 217+

This scientist: 86 D-Index — 31st percentile

31% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 217 D-Index or more.

Overview

Uri Goldbourt is a researcher affiliated with Tel Aviv University in Israel, specializing in the field of Medicine with a focus on aspects related to public health, cardiology, physiology, and geriatrics. Their work primarily addresses topics including nutrition and health in aging, nutritional studies and diet, blood pressure and hypertension studies, frailty in older adults, obesity, physical activity, diet, health disparities and outcomes, as well as diabetes, cardiovascular risks, and lipoproteins.

Key recent publications by Uri Goldbourt include:

  • Global Effect of Modifiable Risk Factors on Cardiovascular Disease and Mortality (2023), published in New England Journal of Medicine
  • Life expectancy associated with different ages at diagnosis of type 2 diabetes in high-income countries: 23 million person-years of observation (2023), published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology
  • Effects of statin therapy on diagnoses of new-onset diabetes and worsening glycaemia in large-scale randomised blinded statin trials: an individual participant data meta-analysis (2024), published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology
  • Repeated measurements of blood pressure and cholesterol improves cardiovascular disease risk prediction: an individual-participant-data meta-analysis (2021), published in ANU Open Research (Australian National University)
  • Global Effect of Cardiovascular Risk Factors on Lifetime Estimates (2025), published in New England Journal of Medicine

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Yariv Gerber
  • Abigail Goshen
  • Yael Benyamini
  • Lital Keinan-Boker
  • Annette Peters

Uri Goldbourt commonly publishes in the following venues:

  • UNC Libraries
  • New England Journal of Medicine
  • The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology
  • Mayo Clinic Proceedings
  • Journal of Clinical Medicine

The scientist has authored at least 60 publications within Medicine, with significant contributions to subfields such as Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (16 publications), Physiology (14), Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine (12), Geriatrics and Gerontology (6), and Health (6).

The thematic concentration of their work reveals interests in aging-related health topics, cardiovascular risk factors, and the interactions between nutrition and chronic diseases, particularly diabetes and hypertension. Their research includes meta-analyses and large-scale observational studies that examine the impact of modifiable risk factors on cardiovascular disease and mortality, as well as the effects of medical interventions such as statin therapy on diabetes outcomes.

Best Publications

  • Plasma fibrinogen level and the risk of major cardiovascular diseases and nonvascular mortality: an individual participant meta-analysis.

    J Danesh;S Lewington;S G Thompson;Lowe Gdo.

  • Major types of dietary fat and risk of coronary heart disease: a pooled analysis of 11 cohort studies

    Marianne U. Jakobsen;Eilis J. O'Reilly;Berit L. Heitmann;Mark A. Pereira

  • Dietary fiber and risk of coronary heart disease: a pooled analysis of cohort studies.

    Mark A. Pereira;Eilis O'Reilly;Katarina Augustsson;Gary E. Fraser

  • In-hospital and 1-year mortality in 1,524 women after myocardial infarction. Comparison with 4,315 men.

    Philip Greenland;Henrietta Reicher-Reiss;Uri Goldbourt;Solomon Behar

  • Fish Consumption and Incidence of Stroke A Meta-Analysis of Cohort Studies

    Ka He;Yiqing Song;Martha L. Daviglus;Kiang Liu

  • Antioxidant vitamins and coronary heart disease risk: a pooled analysis of 9 cohorts

    Paul Knekt;John Ritz;Mark A Pereira;Eilis J O'Reilly

  • Factors predictive of long-term coronary heart disease mortality among 10,059 male Israeli civil servants and municipal employees. A 23-year mortality follow-up in the Israeli Ischemic Heart Disease Study.

    Uri Goldbourt;Shlomit Yaari;Jack H. Medalie

  • Angina pectoris among 10,000 men: II. Psychosocial and other risk factors as evidenced by a multivariate analysis of a five year incidence study

    Jack H Medalie;Uri Goldbourt

  • Diabetes mellitus in midlife and the risk of dementia three decades later

    M. Schnaider Beeri;U. Goldbourt;J. M. Silverman;S. Noy

  • Adult height and the risk of cause-specific death and vascular morbidity in 1 million people: individual participant meta-analysis

    David Wormser;Emanuele Di Angelantonio;Stephen Kaptoge;Angela M. Wood

  • ASSOCIATIONS OF SERUM HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN AND TOTAL CHOLESTEROL WITH TOTAL, CARDIOVASCULAR, AND CANCER MORTALITY IN A 7-YEAR PROSPECTIVE STUDY OF 10 000 MEN

    Shlomit Yaari;Shmuel Even-Zohar;Uri Goldbourt;HenryN Neufeld

  • Risk Factors and Segment-Specific Carotid Arterial Enlargement in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Cohort

    John R. Crouse;Uri Goldbourt;Greg Evans;Joan Pinsky

  • Five-year myocardial infarction incidence. II. Association of single variables to age and birthplace.

    Jack H. Medalie;Harold A. Kahn;Henry N. Neufeld;Egon Riss

  • Glycated hemoglobin measurement and prediction of cardiovascular disease

    Emanuele Di Angelantonio;Pei Gao;Hassan Khan;Adam S. Butterworth

  • Angina pectoris among 10,000 men. 5 year incidence and univariate analysis.

    Jack H. Medalie;Mitchell Snyder;J.J. Groen;Henry N. Neufeld

  • Major factors in the development of diabetes mellitus in 10,000 men.

    Jack H. Medalie;Cheri M. Papier;Uri Goldbourt;Joseph B. Herman

  • Perceptual, Social, and Behavioral Factors Associated With Delays in Seeking Medical Care in Patients With Symptoms of Acute Stroke

    Lori Mandelzweig;Uri Goldbourt;Valentina Boyko;David Tanne

  • Is there an association between hypertension and cancer mortality

    Ehud Grossman;Franz H Messerli;Valentina Boyko;Uri Goldbourt

  • Relation Between the Metabolic Syndrome and Ischemic Stroke or Transient Ischemic Attack A Prospective Cohort Study in Patients With Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease

    N. Koren-Morag;U. Goldbourt;D. Tanne

  • Usefulness of beta-blocker therapy in patients with non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus and coronary artery disease

    Michael Jonas;Henrietta Reicher-Reiss;Valentina Boyko;Avraham Shotan

Frequent Co-Authors

David Tanne
David Tanne Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Yael Benyamini
Yael Benyamini Tel Aviv University
Donna Spiegelman
Donna Spiegelman Yale University
Gerd Assmann
Gerd Assmann University of Münster
Hiroyasu Iso
Hiroyasu Iso Osaka University
Tom Meade
Tom Meade London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
June Stevens
June Stevens University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Berit L. Heitmann
Berit L. Heitmann Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy
Göran Hallmans
Göran Hallmans Umeå University
Walter C. Willett
Walter C. Willett Harvard University

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