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Farshad Farzadfar

Myocarditis Foundation · IR
Area of research
Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism · Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
Research interest
Research interests include Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins, Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology, Global Maternal and Child Health, and Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies.
h-index
118
citations
287,644
works
595
NIH funding
primary concept
Medicine
email

Recent publications

National evidence on glucose-lowering medication use for diabetes from 62 low- and middle-income countries
Nature Communications 2025cited by 4position: middledoi
Worldwide trends in underweight and obesity from 1990 to 2022: a pooled analysis of 3663 population-representative studies with 222 million children, adolescents, and adults
The Lancet 2024cited by 1,893position: middledoi
Trigonelline is an NAD+ precursor that improves muscle function during ageing and is reduced in human sarcopenia
Nature Metabolism 2024cited by 117position: middledoi
Nicotinamide and pyridoxine stimulate muscle stem cell expansion and enhance regenerative capacity during aging
Journal of Clinical Investigation 2024cited by 16position: middledoi
Improving health outcomes of people with diabetes: target setting for the WHO Global Diabetes Compact
The Lancet 2023cited by 215position: middledoi
Global variation in diabetes diagnosis and prevalence based on fasting glucose and hemoglobin A1c
Nature Medicine 2023cited by 81position: middledoi
Diminishing benefits of urban living for children and adolescents’ growth and development
Nature 2023cited by 65position: middledoi
Diabetes risk and provision of diabetes prevention activities in 44 low-income and middle-income countries: a cross-sectional analysis of nationally representative, individual-level survey data
The Lancet Global Health 2023cited by 40position: middledoi
Global mortality of snakebite envenoming between 1990 and 2019
Nature Communications 2022cited by 128position: middledoi
Mapping age- and sex-specific HIV prevalence in adults in sub-Saharan Africa, 2000–2018
BMC Medicine 2022cited by 55position: middledoi
Rural-Urban Differences in Diabetes Care and Control in 42 Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Cross-sectional Study of Nationally Representative Individual-Level Data
Diabetes Care 2022cited by 53position: middledoi
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
The Lancet 2021cited by 3,596position: middledoi
The state of diabetes treatment coverage in 55 low-income and middle-income countries: a cross-sectional study of nationally representative, individual-level data in 680 102 adults
The Lancet Healthy Longevity 2021cited by 258position: middledoi
Body-mass index and diabetes risk in 57 low-income and middle-income countries: a cross-sectional study of nationally representative, individual-level data in 685 616 adults
The Lancet 2021cited by 154position: middledoi
Causes of blindness and vision impairment in 2020 and trends over 30 years, and prevalence of avoidable blindness in relation to VISION 2020: the Right to Sight: an analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study
The Lancet Global Health 2020cited by 2,977position: middledoi
Prevalence and attributable health burden of chronic respiratory diseases, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
The Lancet Respiratory Medicine 2020cited by 2,225position: middledoi
Global, Regional, and National Burden of Calcific Aortic Valve and Degenerative Mitral Valve Diseases, 1990–2017
Circulation 2020cited by 465position: middledoi
Repositioning of the global epicentre of non-optimal cholesterol
Nature 2020cited by 288position: middledoi
Multidimensional characterization of global food supply from 1961 to 2013
Nature Food 2020cited by 89position: middledoi
Global, regional, and national burden of stroke, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016
The Lancet Neurology 2019cited by 3,340position: middledoi
Short-term associations between daily mortality and ambient particulate matter, nitrogen dioxide, and the air quality index in a Middle Eastern megacity
Environmental Pollution 2019cited by 70position: middledoi
Burden of neurodegenerative diseases in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, 1990–2016: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016
European Journal of Neurology 2019cited by 67position: middledoi
Plasma metabolomic profiling of amino acids and polar lipids in Iranian obese adults
Lipids in Health and Disease 2019cited by 67position: middledoi
Mechanistic Understanding of the Interactions between Nano-Objects with Different Surface Properties and α-Synuclein
ACS Nano 2019cited by 66position: middledoi
Global, regional, and national burden of traumatic brain injury and spinal cord injury, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016
The Lancet Neurology 2018cited by 1,959position: middledoi
Global Mortality From Firearms, 1990-2016
JAMA 2018cited by 366position: middledoi
Smoking prevalence and attributable disease burden in 195 countries and territories, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015
The Lancet 2017cited by 2,049position: middledoi
Child and Adolescent Health From 1990 to 2015
JAMA Pediatrics 2017cited by 436position: middledoi
Laboratory-based and office-based risk scores and charts to predict 10-year risk of cardiovascular disease in 182 countries: a pooled analysis of prospective cohorts and health surveys
The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology 2017cited by 147position: middledoi
Burden of musculoskeletal disorders in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, 1990–2013: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013
Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 2017cited by 141position: middledoi

Grants

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Frequent collaborators

Majid Ezzati · Imperial College London6 papers (2012–2020)Gitanjali M Singh · Banaras Hindu University5 papers (2012–2020)Goodarz Danaei · Harvard University4 papers (2012–2020)John K. Lin · Boston University3 papers (2012–2020)Mark Woodward · University of Technology Sydney2 papers (2013–2015)Mariachiara Di Cesare · University of Essex2 papers (2015–2020)Dariush Mozaffarian · Tufts Medical Center2 papers (2013–2015)Leanne M Riley · World Health Organization2 papers (2012–2013)Melanie Cowan · World Health Organization2 papers (2012–2013)Goodarz Danaei · Harvard University2 papers (2013–2015)Christopher Paciorek · University of California, Berkeley2 papers (2012–2013)Shahab Khatibzadeh · Tufts University2 papers (2012–2015) · 1 papers (2019–2019)Hossein Hassani · Cardiff University1 papers (2019–2019)Sarah B. Henderson · BC Centre for Disease Control1 papers (2019–2019)Heresh Amini · Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai1 papers (2019–2019)Stella Aslibekyan · University of Alabama1 papers (2019–2019)Gary Whitlock · Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust1 papers (2013–2013)Seyed‐Mohammad Fereshtehnejad · University of Toronto1 papers (2019–2019) · 1 papers (2015–2015)