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David A. Leon

Dublin City University · US
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Area of research
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health · Health
Research interest
Research interests include Birth, Development, and Health, Health disparities and outcomes, Global Health Care Issues, and Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects.
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88
citations
29,795
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597
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Recent publications

Long-term negative divergence in mortality at ages 25-49 years between the United Kingdom and 21 peer countries between 1990 and 2019.
2026cited by 0position: contributordoi
Associations of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) with key metabolic cardiovascular disease risk factors. The Tromsø Study
Environmental Research 2026cited by 0position: contributordoi
Indirect effects of the COVID-19 pandemic: A cause-of-death analysis of life expectancy changes in 24 countries, 2015 to 2022.
2025cited by 4position: contributordoi
A New Biomarker of Aging Derived From Electrocardiograms Improves Risk Prediction of Incident Cardiovascular Disease
JACC Advances 2025cited by 3position: middledoi
Long-term negative divergence in mortality at ages 25-49 years between the United Kingdom and 21 peer countries between 1990 and 2019
2025cited by 0position: contributordoi
Associations of educational level with ECG-derived cardiovascular ageing in a population-based cohort: a mediation analysis from the Tromsø Study.
2025cited by 0position: contributordoi
Indirect effects of the COVID-19 pandemic: A cause-of-death analysis of life expectancy changes in 24 countries, 2015 to 2022
PNAS Nexus 2024cited by 12position: middledoi
Reconsidering the developmental origins of adult disease paradigm
Evolution Medicine and Public Health 2024cited by 11position: lastdoi
Reconsidering the developmental origins of adult disease paradigm: The 'metabolic coordination of childbirth' hypothesis.
2024cited by 6position: contributordoi
Faltering mortality improvements at young-middle ages in high-income English-speaking countries.
2024cited by 6position: contributordoi
Lifetime and 10-year risks of cardiovascular mortality in relation to risk factors in middle and old age: 50-year follow-up of the Whitehall study of London Civil Servants
Public Health 2024cited by 2position: middledoi
Determining the optimal diagnostic and risk stratification approaches for people with hypertension in two rural populations in Kenya and The Gambia: a study protocol for IHCoR-Africa Work Package 2
NIHR Open Research 2024cited by 2position: middledoi
Associations between serum high-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels and cause-specific mortality in a general population of 345 000 men and women aged 20–79 years
International Journal of Epidemiology 2023cited by 38position: middledoi
Associations between serum high-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels and cause-specific mortality in a general population of 345 000 men and women aged 20-79 years.
2023cited by 25position: contributordoi
Machine‐learning‐derived heart and brain age are independently associated with cognition
European Journal of Neurology 2023cited by 11position: middledoi
Pre-hospital delays among patients with acute coronary syndrome in the Russian Federation: a multicentre prospective observational cohort study (the AMIR Study)
Frontiers in Disaster and Emergency Medicine 2023cited by 4position: middledoi
Determining the optimal diagnostic and risk stratification approaches for people with hypertension in two rural populations in Kenya and The Gambia: a study protocol for IHCoR-Africa Work Package 2
NIHR Open Research 2023cited by 3position: middledoi
Multiplicative and additive interactions between risk factors for coronary heart disease
Annals of Epidemiology 2023cited by 1position: lastdoi
East-West mortality disparities during the COVID-19 pandemic widen the historical longevity divide in Europe: an international comparative study
2023cited by 0position: contributordoi
Faltering mortality improvements at young-middle ages in high-income English-speaking countries
2023cited by 0position: contributordoi
Remembering Valerie Beral (1946–2022)
International Journal of Epidemiology 2023cited by 0position: contributordoi
Nitrate and nitrite contamination in drinking water and cancer risk: A systematic review with meta-analysis
Environmental Research 2022cited by 359position: middledoi
Nitrate and nitrite contamination in drinking water and cancer risk: A systematic review with meta-analysis.
2022cited by 112position: contributordoi
Mortality among Care Home Residents in England during the first and second waves of the COVID-19 pandemic: an observational study of 4.3 million adults over the age of 65
The Lancet Regional Health - Europe 2022cited by 77position: lastdoi
Mortality among Care Home Residents in England during the first and second waves of the COVID-19 pandemic: an observational study of 4.3 million adults over the age of 65.
2022cited by 50position: contributordoi
Deep learning-derived cardiovascular age shares a genetic basis with other cardiac phenotypes
Scientific Reports 2022cited by 32position: middledoi
What should be the baseline when calculating excess mortality? New approaches suggest that we have underestimated the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and previous winter peaks
SSM - Population Health 2022cited by 28position: lastdoi
The Russian invasion of Ukraine and its public health consequences.
2022cited by 20position: contributordoi
Obesity Prevalence and Associated Socio-Demographic Characteristics and Health Behaviors in Russia and Norway
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2022cited by 19position: middledoi
Deep neural networks reveal novel sex-specific electrocardiographic features relevant for mortality risk
European Heart Journal - Digital Health 2022cited by 17position: middledoi

Grants

Collaborative Research: The COnvective Precipitation Experiment- Microphysical and Entrainment Dependencies (COPE-MED)
NSF1230203$672,6722013–2017PIRePORTER
Collaborative Research: Profiling of Winter Storms
NSF1247473$91,7932013–2016PIRePORTER
VOCALS: Comprehensive Studies of Marine Stratocumulus during VOCALS-REx Using Airborne Radar, Lidar, and In Situ Measurements
NSF0745986$576,5512008–2012PIRePORTER

Frequent collaborators

· 31 papers (2019–2026) · 19 papers (2019–2022)Vladimir M. Shkolnikov · National Research University Higher School of Economics19 papers (2013–2026)Sarah Cook · London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine18 papers (2013–2022)Sofia Malyutina · Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation17 papers (2020–2022)А. V. Kontsevaya · Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation14 papers (2016–2023)Henrik Schirmer · Oslo University Hospital13 papers (2019–2025) · 10 papers (2018–2022)Olena Iakunchykova · London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine8 papers (2019–2025) · 7 papers (2020–2022) · 7 papers (2019–2025) · 6 papers (2020–2022) · 6 papers (2021–2026)Natalia Bobrova · London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine6 papers (2017–2023)Katie Bates · London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine6 papers (2017–2023)Sergey Timonin · Australian National University5 papers (2018–2024)Gro Askgaard · London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine5 papers (2016–2019)Sergey Timonin · Australian National University5 papers (2021–2024)Dmitri A. Jdanov · London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine5 papers (2021–2026) · 5 papers (2019–2022)
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