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Thor Aspelund

University of IcelandORCID

Also Known As

Aldrich, Melinda C, Alice M Arnold, Alizadeh, Behrooz Z, Altschul D, Arveiler, Dominique, Ask, Helga, Aspelund, Thor, Brynjólfur Gauti Jónsson, Catherine Buisson, Demerath, Ellen W.

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University of IcelandIcelandic Heart AssociationNational Institute on AgingNational University Hospital of IcelandHarvard University
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About

Thor Aspelund is an author at University of Iceland specializing in medicine, public health, and epidemiology.

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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,

The Lancet

2017

7.4K

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,

The Lancet

2021

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Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height

Hana Lango Allen, Karol Estrada, Guillaume Lettre,

Nature

2010

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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

Nowell H Phelps, Rosie Singleton, Bin Zhou,

The Lancet

2024

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Genome-wide association study of blood pressure and hypertension

Daniel Levy, Georg Ehret, Kenneth Rice,

Nature Genetics

2009

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Arterial stiffness, pressure and flow pulsatility and brain structure and function: the Age, Gene/Environment Susceptibility – Reykjavik Study

Gary F. Mitchell, Mark A. van Buchem, Sigurður Sigurdsson,

Brain

2011

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Simple Risk Model Predicts Incidence of Atrial Fibrillation in a Racially and Geographically Diverse Population: the CHARGE‐AF Consortium

Álvaro Alonso, Bouwe P. Krijthe, Thor Aspelund,

Journal of the American Heart Association

2013

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New loci associated with kidney function and chronic kidney disease

Anna Köttgen, Cristian Pattaro, Carsten A. Böger,

Nature Genetics

2010

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Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index

Elizabeth K. Speliotes, Cristen J. Willer, S. I. Berndt,

Carolina Digital Repository (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

2010

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Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults

Honor Bixby, James Bentham, Bin Zhou,

Nature

2019

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