Jan A. Staessen

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 Abdeen, Zargar Abdul Hamid et al. · The Lancet · 2017 · 7.6K citations · Full text

Public Health, Child Health, Public Health Nutrition +17

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 et al. · The Lancet · 2016 · 4.4K citations · Full text

Public Health, Biostatistics, Health Sciences +16

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 et al. · The Lancet · 2021 · 3.7K citations · Full text

Medicine, Chronic Disease Control, Clinical Epidemiology +16

Treatment of Hypertension in Patients 80 Years of Age or Older

Nigel Beckett, Ruth Peters, Astrid Fletcher et al. · New England Journal of Medicine · 2008 · 3.1K citations · Full text

Medicine, Cardiology, Geriatric Medicine +12

Randomised double-blind comparison of placebo and active treatment for older patients with isolated systolic hypertension

Jan A. Staessen, Robert Fagard, Lutgarde Thijs et al. · The Lancet · 1997 · 3K citations

Medicine, Cardiology, Geriatric Medicine +9