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Wen-Harn Pan

Wen-Harn Pan

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Medicine

D-Index
78
Citations
33398
World Ranking
17825
National Ranking
45

Overview

Wen-Harn Pan is affiliated with Academia Sinica in Taiwan and has a substantial body of research primarily in the field of Medicine. Their work spans several subfields including Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health; Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine; Physiology; Genetics; and Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism.

The scientist's research addresses a range of topics with notable focus areas including Nutritional Studies and Diet, Nutrition and Health in Aging, Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies, Cardiovascular Health and Disease Prevention, Frailty in Older Adults, Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet, and Diet, Metabolism, and Disease.

Frequent publication venues for Wen-Harn Pan include:

  • Nutrients
  • Frontiers in Nutrition
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • PLoS ONE
  • Journal of Cachexia Sarcopenia and Muscle

The scientist has contributed to several recent papers, among them:

  • Diagnosis and outcomes of cachexia in Asia: Working Consensus Report from the Asian Working Group for Cachexia, 2023, Journal of Cachexia Sarcopenia and Muscle
  • Association of Marital Status With Total and Cause-Specific Mortality in Asia, 2022, JAMA Network Open
  • Prediction of Masked Hypertension and Masked Uncontrolled Hypertension Using Machine Learning, 2021, Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
  • High sugar-sweetened beverage intake frequency is associated with smoking, irregular meal intake and higher serum uric acid in Taiwanese adolescents, 2020, Journal of Nutritional Science
  • 2022 Taiwan lipid guidelines for primary prevention, 2022, Journal of the Formosan Medical Association

Collaborations are a significant component of this scientist's work. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Shao-Yuan Chuang
  • Hsing-Yi Chang
  • Kuang-Mao Chiang
  • Chen-Huan Chen
  • LiYan Bu

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 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

  • Association between Body-Mass Index and Risk of Death in More Than 1 Million Asians

    Wei Zheng;Dale F. McLerran;Betsy Rolland;Xianglan Zhang

  • 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

  • Cardiovascular disease, chronic kidney disease, and diabetes mortality burden of cardiometabolic risk factors from 1980 to 2010: a comparative risk assessment.

    Goodarz Danaei;Yuan Lu;Gitanjali M. Singh;Emily Carnahan

  • Serum uric acid level as an independent risk factor for all-cause, cardiovascular, and ischemic stroke mortality: a Chinese cohort study.

    Jiunn-Horng Chen;Shao-Yuan Chuang;Hsin-Jen Chen;Wen-Ting Yeh

  • Body mass index and obesity-related metabolic disorders in Taiwanese and US whites and blacks: implications for definitions of overweight and obesity for Asians

    Wen-Harn Pan;Katherine M Flegal;Hsing-Yi Chang;Wen-Ting Yeh

  • Body mass index and cardiovascular disease in the Asia-Pacific Region: an overview of 33 cohorts involving 310 000 participants.

    C Ni Mhurchu;A Rodgers;W H Pan;D F Gu

  • 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

  • How to Define Obesity? Evidence-based Multiple Action Points for Public Awareness, Screening, and Treatment: an Extension of Asian-Pacific Recommendations

    Wen-Harn Pan;Wen-Ting Yeh

  • Microsatellite polymorphism in promoter of heme oxygenase-1 gene is associated with susceptibility to coronary artery disease in type 2 diabetic patients

    Ying Hwa Chen;Shing Jong Lin;Ming Wei Lin;Hui Ling Tsai

  • Effect of potassium-enriched salt on cardiovascular mortality and medical expenses of elderly men

    Hsing-Yi Chang;Yu-Whuei Hu;Ching-Syang Jack Yue;Yu-Wen Wen

  • Association between body mass index and cardiovascular disease mortality in east Asians and south Asians: pooled analysis of prospective data from the Asia Cohort Consortium

    Yu Chen;Wade K. Copeland;Rajesh Vedanthan;Eric Grant

  • Body Mass Index and Diabetes in Asia: A Cross-Sectional Pooled Analysis of 900,000 Individuals in the Asia Cohort Consortium

    Paolo Boffetta;Dale McLerran;Yu Chen;Manami Inoue

  • The burden of overweight and obesity in the Asia-Pacific region

    C. M. Y. Lee;Alexandra L. Martiniuk;Mark Woodward

  • Repositioning of the global epicentre of non-optimal cholesterol

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

  • Epidemiology of metabolic syndrome in Asia.

    Wen-Harn Pan;Wen-Ting Yeh;Lu-Chen Weng

  • Hyperuricemia and gout in Taiwan: results from the Nutritional and Health Survey in Taiwan (1993-96).

    Hsing-Yi Chang;Wen-Harn Pan;Wen-Ting Yeh;Keh-Sung Tsai

  • Influence of Metabolic Syndrome and General Obesity on the Risk of Ischemic Stroke

    Hsin Jen Chen;Chyi Huey Bai;Wen Ting Yeh;Hou Chang Chiu

  • Association between type 2 diabetes and risk of cancer mortality: a pooled analysis of over 771,000 individuals in the Asia Cohort Consortium.

    Yu Chen;Fen Wu;Eiko Saito;Yingsong Lin

Frequent Co-Authors

John D. Potter
John D. Potter Massey University
Chien-Jen Chen
Chien-Jen Chen Academia Sinica
Wei Zheng
Wei Zheng Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Mark Woodward
Mark Woodward Imperial College London
Shing Jong Lin
Shing Jong Lin Taipei Veterans General Hospital
Shoichiro Tsugane
Shoichiro Tsugane International University of Health and Welfare
Dongfeng Gu
Dongfeng Gu Southern University of Science and Technology
Prakash C. Gupta
Prakash C. Gupta Healis Sekhsaria Institute For Public Health
Manami Inoue
Manami Inoue National Cancer Centre
Xiao-Ou Shu
Xiao-Ou Shu Vanderbilt University Medical Center

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