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Wieland Kiess

Wieland Kiess

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Medicine

D-Index
109
Citations
50957
World Ranking
5716
National Ranking
318

Overview

Wieland Kiess is affiliated with Leipzig University in Germany and has an extensive research portfolio primarily focused on medicine, with significant contributions in pediatrics, endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism. Their work spans various subfields including public health, molecular biology, and clinical psychology.

Research topics frequently addressed by Kiess include:

  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • Eating Disorders and Behaviors
  • Diet and metabolism studies
  • Health and Medical Studies
  • Child and Adolescent Health
  • Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues

Kiess has contributed numerous papers to multiple high-impact journals. Notable recent publications include:

  • Age- and weight group-specific weight gain patterns in children and adolescents during the 15 years before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, 2021, International Journal of Obesity
  • From cohorts to molecules: Adverse impacts of endocrine disrupting mixtures, 2022, Science
  • Novel loci for childhood body mass index and shared heritability with adult cardiometabolic traits, 2020, PLoS Genetics
  • Sex-dimorphic genetic effects and novel loci for fasting glucose and insulin variability, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Sleep-related difficulties in healthy children and adolescents, 2021, BMC Pediatrics

Kiess frequently collaborates with other researchers, with the most recurrent coauthors being Mandy Vogel, Antje Körner, Tanja Poulain, Christof Meigen, and Anna Kirstein.

The scientist has published extensively in venues including:

  • Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism
  • Kinder- und Jugendmedizin
  • Adipositas - Ursachen Folgeerkrankungen Therapie
  • PLoS ONE
  • BMC Public Health

Among Kiess's scholarly contributions is a book published by Springer Science+Business Media titled Pediatric Pharmacotherapy released in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Variation in FTO contributes to childhood obesity and severe adult obesity

    Christian Dina;David Meyre;Sophie Gallina;Emmanuelle Durand

  • Nampt/PBEF/visfatin regulates insulin secretion in β cells as a systemic NAD biosynthetic enzyme

    Javier R. Revollo;Antje Körner;Kathryn F. Mills;Akiko Satoh

  • Plasma Leptin Levels in Healthy Children and Adolescents: Dependence on Body Mass Index, Body Fat Mass, Gender, Pubertal Stage, and Testosterone

    Werner F. Blum;Piera Englaro;Sigrid Hanitsch;Anders Juul

  • Large-scale association analyses identify new loci influencing glycemic traits and provide insight into the underlying biological pathways

    Robert A Scott;Vasiliki Lagou;Ryan P Welch;Eleanor Wheeler

  • The trans-ancestral genomic architecture of glycemic traits

    Ji Chen;Ji Chen;Cassandra N. Spracklen;Cassandra N. Spracklen;Gaëlle Marenne;Gaëlle Marenne;Arushi Varshney

  • Genome-wide association study for early-onset and morbid adult obesity identifies three new risk loci in European populations

    David Meyre;Jérôme Delplanque;Jean-Claude Chèvre;Cécile Lecoeur

  • IGF-I receptor mutations resulting in intrauterine and postnatal growth retardation

    M. Jennifer Abuzzahab;Anke Schneider;Audrey Goddard;Florin Grigorescu

  • Dysfunction of lipid sensor GPR120 leads to obesity in both mouse and human

    Atsuhiko Ichimura;Akira Hirasawa;Odile Poulain-Godefroy;Odile Poulain-Godefroy;Amélie Bonnefond;Amélie Bonnefond

  • Acceleration of BMI in Early Childhood and Risk of Sustained Obesity.

    Mandy Geserick;Mandy Vogel;Ruth Gausche;Tobias Lipek

  • Adipocytokines: leptin—the classical, resistin—the controversical, adiponectin—the promising, and more to come

    Antje Koerner;Jürgen Kratzsch;Wieland Kiess

  • Physiological and pathophysiological roles of NAMPT and NAD metabolism

    Antje Garten;Susanne Schuster;Melanie Penke;Theresa Gorski

  • Maternal and fetal genetic effects on birth weight and their relevance to cardio-metabolic risk factors

    Nicole M Warrington;Robin N Beaumont;Momoko Horikoshi;Felix R Day

  • Gender Differences of Adiponectin Levels Develop during the Progression of Puberty and Are Related to Serum Androgen Levels

    Antje Böttner;Jürgen Kratzsch;Grit Müller;Thomas M. Kapellen

  • Genome-wide associations for birth weight and correlations with adult disease

    Momoko Horikoshi;Robin N. Beaumont;Felix R. Day;Nicole M. Warrington;Nicole M. Warrington

  • Serum insulin-like growth factor I reference values for an automated chemiluminescence immunoassay system: results from a multicenter study.

    Georg Brabant;Alexander von zur Mühlen;Christian Wüster;Michael B Ranke

  • Nampt: linking NAD biology, metabolism and cancer.

    Antje Garten;Stefanie Petzold;Antje Körner;Shin-ichiro Imai

  • Clinical aspects of obesity in childhood and adolescence.

    W. Kiess;A. Galler;A. Reich;G. Müller

  • Impact of common genetic determinants of Hemoglobin A1c on type 2 diabetes risk and diagnosis in ancestrally diverse populations: A transethnic genome-wide meta-analysis

    Eleanor Wheeler;Aaron Leong;Ching-Ti Liu;Marie-France Hivert

  • Soluble Leptin Receptor Represents the Main Leptin Binding Activity in Human Blood

    A. Lammert;W. Kiess;A. Bottner;A. Glasow

  • Two new Loci for body-weight regulation identified in a joint analysis of genome-wide association studies for early-onset extreme obesity in French and german study groups

    André Scherag;Christian Dina;Anke Hinney;Vincent Vatin

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Kovacs
Peter Kovacs Leipzig University
Joachim Thiery
Joachim Thiery Leipzig University
Philippe Froguel
Philippe Froguel Imperial College London
Matthias Blüher
Matthias Blüher Leipzig University
Thomas Reinehr
Thomas Reinehr Boston Children's Hospital
Michael Stumvoll
Michael Stumvoll Leipzig University
Reinhard W. Holl
Reinhard W. Holl University of Ulm
Andrew P. Morris
Andrew P. Morris University of Liverpool

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