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Overview

Yannis Manios is affiliated with Harokopio University in Greece and has contributed extensively to the field of medicine, with a focus on public health, nutrition, and endocrinology. Their research spans several interconnected disciplines, emphasizing the study of obesity, physical activity, diet, and related metabolic conditions.

The primary fields of study that characterize Manios's work include:

  • Medicine

Within this broad domain, their subfields of expertise cover:

  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
  • Physiology
  • Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
  • General Health Professions
  • Epidemiology

The researcher has focused on several key topics throughout their career, notably:

  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Nutritional Studies and Diet
  • Eating Disorders and Behaviors
  • Diet and Metabolism Studies
  • Health and Lifestyle Studies
  • Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins
  • Obesity and Health Practices

Manios's publication record includes recent papers that address various health-related issues. Notable examples are:

  • "Variations in accelerometry measured physical activity and sedentary time across Europe - harmonized analyses of 47,497 children and adolescents" (2020), published in International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity
  • "The Influence of Parental Dietary Behaviors and Practices on Children's Eating Habits" (2021), published in Nutrients
  • "Sociodemographic and lifestyle-related risk factors for identifying vulnerable groups for type 2 diabetes: a narrative review with emphasis on data from Europe" (2020), published in BMC Endocrine Disorders
  • "Effectiveness, reach, uptake, and feasibility of digital health interventions for adults with type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials" (2023), published in The Lancet Digital Health
  • "Effective strategies for childhood obesity prevention via school based, family involved interventions: a critical review for the development of the Feel4Diabetes-study school based component" (2020), published in BMC Endocrine Disorders

Frequent collaborators in Manios's research include:

  • Luís A. Moreno
  • Greet Cardon
  • Violeta Iotova
  • Konstantinos Makrilakis
  • George Moschonis

The researcher's work has been published repeatedly in certain academic venues, with the most frequent publication outlets being:

  • Nutrients
  • Nutrition
  • BMC Endocrine Disorders
  • European Journal of Pediatrics
  • Pediatric Obesity

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Vitamin D deficiency in Europe: pandemic?

    Kevin D. Cashman;Kirsten G. Dowling;Zuzana Skrabakova;Marcela Gonzalez-Gross;Marcela Gonzalez-Gross

  • A century of trends in adult human height

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

  • 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

  • Physical fitness levels among European adolescents: The HELENA study

    Francisco B Ortega;Francisco B Ortega;Enrique G Artero;Jonatan R Ruiz;Jonatan R Ruiz;Vanesa España-Romero;Vanesa España-Romero

  • Television food advertising to children: a global perspective.

    Bridget Kelly;Jason C.G. Halford;Emma J. Boyland;Kathy Chapman

  • Impact of maternal body mass index and gestational weight gain on pregnancy complications: An individual participant data meta-analysis of European, North American and Australian cohorts

    Susana Santos;Ellis Voerman;Pilar Amiano;Henrique Barros

  • Association of Gestational Weight Gain With Adverse Maternal and Infant Outcomes

    LifeCycle Project-Maternal Obesity;Ellis Voerman;Susana Santos;Susana Santos

  • Short sleep duration is associated with increased obesity markers in European adolescents: effect of physical activity and dietary habits. The HELENA study

    M Garaulet;F B Ortega;F B Ortega;J R Ruiz;J R Ruiz;J P Rey-López

  • Reliability of health-related physical fitness tests in European adolescents. The HELENA Study

    F. B. Ortega;F. B. Ortega;E. G. Artero;J. R. Ruiz;G. Vicente-Rodriguez

  • Associations between dietary inflammatory index and inflammatory markers in the Asklepios Study.

    Nitin Shivappa;James R. Hébert;Ernst R. Rietzschel;Marc L. De Buyzere

  • Objectively Measured Physical Activity and Sedentary Time in European Adolescents The HELENA Study

    Jonatan R. Ruiz;Francisco B. Ortega;David Martínez-Gómez;Idoia Labayen

  • Design and implementation of the Healthy Lifestyle in Europe by Nutrition in Adolescence Cross-Sectional Study.

    L A Moreno;S De Henauw;M González-Gross;M Kersting

  • Overweight and obesity in infants and pre-school children in the European Union: a review of existing data

    A Cattaneo;L Monasta;E Stamatakis;S Lioret

  • Effect of personalized nutrition on health-related behaviour change: evidence from the Food4me European randomized controlled trial

    Carlos Celis-Morales;Katherine M. Livingstone;Cyril F. M. Marsaux;Anna L. Macready

  • Association of Gestational Weight Gain With Adverse Maternal and Infant Outcomes

    Ellis Voerman;Susana Santos;Hazel Inskip;Pilar Amiano

Frequent Co-Authors

Luis A. Moreno
Luis A. Moreno University of Zaragoza
Marcela González-Gross
Marcela González-Gross Technical University of Madrid
Dénes Molnár
Dénes Molnár University of Pecs
Kurt Widhalm
Kurt Widhalm Medical University of Vienna
Inge Huybrechts
Inge Huybrechts International Agency For Research On Cancer
Frédéric Gottrand
Frédéric Gottrand University of Lille
Greet Cardon
Greet Cardon Ghent University
Michael Sjöström
Michael Sjöström Karolinska Institute
Jonatan R. Ruiz
Jonatan R. Ruiz University of Granada
Francisco B. Ortega
Francisco B. Ortega University of Granada

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