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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Medicine in India Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Medicine in India Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in India Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Medicine in India Leader Award
  • 2020 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
  • 2013 - Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences

Overview

Viswanathan Mohan is affiliated with the Madras Diabetes Research Foundation in India and has a substantial body of work in the field of medicine, specifically focusing on endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism. Their research output includes 970 publications, with 372 specifically addressing endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism. Other significant subfields include genetics, public health, environmental and occupational health, surgery, and epidemiology.

Their research topics prominently cover diabetes management and research, cardiovascular risks related to diabetes, diabetes treatment, education, associated disorders, diet and metabolism studies, and pancreatic function in relation to diabetes. This comprehensive focus highlights an integrated approach to diabetes and its related health impacts.

Viswanathan Mohan has contributed to various peer-reviewed journals, with frequent publications in the Journal of Diabetology (52 articles), Diabetes Care (22 articles), bioRxiv (21 articles), Diabetes (21 articles), and Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice (17 articles).

Frequent collaborators include Ranjit Mohan Anjana, Nikhil Tandon, Ranjit Unnikrishnan, Rajendra Pradeepa, and Mohammed K. Ali, reflecting a network of co-authors actively working in related areas of diabetes research and medicine.

Some recent significant papers include:

  • Health and economic impact of air pollution in the states of India: the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 (2020), published in The Lancet Planetary Health
  • Worldwide trends in diabetes prevalence and treatment from 1990 to 2022: a pooled analysis of 1108 population-representative studies with 141 million participants (2024), published in The Lancet
  • Metabolic non-communicable disease health report of India: the ICMR-INDIAB national cross-sectional study (ICMR-INDIAB-17) (2023), published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology
  • Impact of age at type 2 diabetes mellitus diagnosis on mortality and vascular complications: systematic review and meta-analyses (2020), published in Diabetologia
  • Treatment of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Diagnosed Early in Pregnancy (2023), published in New England Journal of Medicine

Viswanathan Mohan has received recognition through awards such as being named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2020 and a Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences in 2013.

Best Publications

  • Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    Gregory A Roth;Gregory A Roth;Degu Abate;Kalkidan Hassen Abate;Solomon M Abay

  • 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

  • Global, regional, and national life expectancy, all-cause mortality, and cause-specific mortality for 249 causes of death, 1980–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015

    Haidong Wang;Mohsen Naghavi;Christine Allen;Ryan M Barber

  • 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

  • Health effects of dietary risks in 195 countries, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    Ashkan Afshin;Patrick John Sur;Kairsten A. Fay;Leslie Cornaby

  • 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

  • Effect of rosiglitazone on the frequency of diabetes in patients with impaired glucose tolerance or impaired fasting glucose: a randomised controlled trial.

    rosiglitazone Medication Trial Investigators;H C Gerstein;S Yusuf

  • 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

  • Prevention and management of type 2 diabetes: dietary components and nutritional strategies

    Sylvia H Ley;Osama Hamdy;Viswanathan Mohan;Frank B Hu

  • Epidemiology of type 2 diabetes: Indian scenario.

    V Mohan;S Sandeep;R Deepa;B Shah

  • High prevalence of diabetes and impaired glucose tolerance in India: National Urban Diabetes Survey.

    A. Ramachandran;C. Snehalatha;A. Kapur;V. Vijay

  • 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

  • Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality and life expectancy, 1950-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    Daniel Dicker;Grant Nguyen;Degu Abate;Kalkidan Hassen Abate

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

    Salim Yusuf;Sumathy Rangarajan;Koon Teo;Shofiqul Islam

  • 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

  • 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

K.M. Venkat Narayan
K.M. Venkat Narayan Emory University
Nikhil Tandon
Nikhil Tandon All India Institute of Medical Sciences
Dorairaj Prabhakaran
Dorairaj Prabhakaran Centre for Chronic Disease Control
Annika Rosengren
Annika Rosengren Sahlgrenska University Hospital
Salim Yusuf
Salim Yusuf McMaster University
Rajeev Gupta
Rajeev Gupta Rajasthan University of Health Sciences
Sonia S. Anand
Sonia S. Anand McMaster University
Koon K. Teo
Koon K. Teo McMaster University
Hertzel C. Gerstein
Hertzel C. Gerstein McMaster University
Patricio López-Jaramillo
Patricio López-Jaramillo University of Santander

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