Thor Aspelund
University of Iceland(IS)Icelandic Heart Association(IS)
Publications by Year
Research Areas
Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Birth, Development, and Health, Nutritional Studies and Diet, Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies, Bone health and osteoporosis research
Most-Cited Works
- → 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(2017)7,516 cited
- → 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(2021)3,500 cited
- → Genetic meta-analysis of diagnosed Alzheimer’s disease identifies new risk loci and implicates Aβ, tau, immunity and lipid processing(2019)3,123 cited
- → Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index(2010)2,969 cited
- → Genetic variants in novel pathways influence blood pressure and cardiovascular disease risk(2011)2,057 cited
- → Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height(2010)2,053 cited