Area of research
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health · Physiology
Research interest
Dr. Martinez Gonzalez has also published more than 20 books, such as "Salud a ciencia cierta, 6ª ed. (Planeta, 2018)" , "Qué comes (Planeta, 2020)", “La sanidad en llamas (Planeta,2021)”, "Bioestadistica amigable, 4th ed. (Elsevier, 2020)", "Salmones, hormonas y pantallas" (Planeta, 2023) and “Conceptos de Salud Pública y estrategias preventivas, 3rd ed." (Elsevier, 2023)". Dr. Martinez Gonzalez was founder (and Chair during 27 years) of the Department of Preventive Medicine at the University of Navarra and Professor at the Medical School. He has been the principal investigator in >20 funded Research pPojects, including the Advanced Research Grant from the European Research Council (ERC, 2014-2019) to develop the PREDIMED-PLUS trial (http://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/188509_en.html) and a second Advanced Research Grant from ERC to develop the University of Navarra Alumni Trialists Initiative (UNATI), the largest randomized trial ever conducted on alcohol and health (2023-2028). Additionally, Dr. Martinez Gonzalez was the founder (and its Principal Investigator during >20 years) of the SUN project ("Seguimiento Universidad de Navarra"), an ongoing, multipurpose, prospective and dynamic cohort which includes more than 23,000 Spanish university graduates (http:// medpreventiva.es/xZd6Hh). During the period 2006-2013, Dr. Martinez Gonzalez was the Coordinator of the PREDIMED randomized trial through a Research Network Grant (RD 06/0041) funded by the Spanish National Institutes of Health Carlos III [ISCII-PREDIMED Research Network (www.predimed.es)]. The PREDIMED study is the largest randomized trial on diet and health conducted in Europe. Dr. Martinez Gonzalez is also the Principal Investigator-head of the CIBER-OBN group. He has been co-Principal Investigator together with Prof. Frank B. Hu of several R01 grants funded by the NHLBI and NIDDK to investigate the role of metabolomics in the PREDIMED trial. He was awarded with the Grace Goldsmith Award from the American
Meat consumption and incident type 2 diabetes: an individual-participant federated meta-analysis of 1·97 million adults with 100 000 incident cases from 31 cohorts in 20 countries
Rationale of the association between Mediterranean diet and the risk of frailty in older adults and systematic review and meta-analysis
Coffee Consumption and the Risk of Metabolic Syndrome in the ‘Seguimiento Universidad de Navarra’ Project
Host and gut microbial tryptophan metabolism and type 2 diabetes: an integrative analysis of host genetics, diet, gut microbiome and circulating metabolites in cohort studies
Metabolomics of the tryptophan–kynurenine degradation pathway and risk of atrial fibrillation and heart failure: potential modification effect of Mediterranean diet
Olive oil consumption is associated with a lower risk of cardiovascular disease and stroke
Dairy consumption, plasma metabolites, and risk of type 2 diabetes
Interaction of Diet/Lifestyle Intervention and TCF7L2 Genotype on Glycemic Control and Adiposity among Overweight or Obese Adults: Big Data from Seven Randomized Controlled Trials Worldwide
Remnant Cholesterol, Not LDL Cholesterol, Is Associated With Incident Cardiovascular Disease
Clinical features, ventilatory management, and outcome of ARDS caused by COVID-19 are similar to other causes of ARDS
The Mediterranean diet, plasma metabolome, and cardiovascular disease risk
Mediterranean Diet and Atherothrombosis Biomarkers: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Association between consumption of ultra-processed foods and all cause mortality: SUN prospective cohort study
Virgin Olive Oil and Health: Summary of the III International Conference on Virgin Olive Oil and Health Consensus Report, JAEN (Spain) 2018
Adherence to the Mediterranean diet and risk of stroke and stroke subtypes
High plasma glutamate and low glutamine-to-glutamate ratio are associated with type 2 diabetes: Case-cohort study within the PREDIMED trial
Increased Consumption of Virgin Olive Oil, Nuts, Legumes, Whole Grains, and Fish Promotes HDL Functions in Humans
Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease with a Mediterranean Diet Supplemented with Extra-Virgin Olive Oil or Nuts
Food based dietary patterns and chronic disease prevention
Effect of a Lifestyle Intervention Program With Energy-Restricted Mediterranean Diet and Exercise on Weight Loss and Cardiovascular Risk Factors: One-Year Results of the PREDIMED-Plus Trial
Cohort Profile: Design and methods of the PREDIMED-Plus randomized trial
Metabolic Predictors of Incident Coronary Heart Disease in Women
Olive oil and prevention of chronic diseases: Summary of an International conference
Plasma Acylcarnitines and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes in a Mediterranean Population at High Cardiovascular Risk
Diet quality and depression risk: A systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis of prospective studies
Plasma Ceramides, Mediterranean Diet, and Incident Cardiovascular Disease in the PREDIMED Trial (Prevención con Dieta Mediterránea)
Transferability of the Mediterranean Diet to Non-Mediterranean Countries. What Is and What Is Not the Mediterranean Diet
Nut consumption in relation to all-cause and cause-specific mortality: a meta-analysis 18 prospective studies
Metabolomics in Prediabetes and Diabetes: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis